Now who says you can't have your cake and eat it too?  If you're looking to invest in a greener car but you'd rather have something more family-oriented, then look no further than Toyama, Japan's Takeoka Jidosha Kogei. This family-run business uses not robots to make their eco-friendly cars, but a line of 12 mechanics that see the car's engine to the headlights handdone. The cars cost around $9,600 and run on a lithium-ion battery which...

From a newswire this morning comes the announcement of a new eco-friendly furniture supplier, EcoSelect Furniture. Specializing in custom-made leather and hemp furniture, EcoSelect Furniture uses an ISO 14001 certified leather supplier and a single source hemp fabric supplier for a low total footprint supplier in North Carolina. Now, how can you beat...

Instead of trudging out to the market this holiday season, make your own wrapping paper and add a special touch! You can either recycle paper from last year or get some good old fashioned brown shipping paper and deck it out with stamps, paint or even glue on...

It's getting around to being the 2009 holiday season.  Are you ready? Well, we'll be bringing you some great green gift ideas this year, so not to worry.  Take a peek at this Eco-Friendly Bamboo Bowl, Plate & Chopstick Set. Handcrafted using environmentally-friendly bamboo, this dinner set is a great addition to anyone's kitchen.  Cost,...

This new Switch Outlet concept allows you to not only keep your electronic gadgets plugged in, but also cut them off as well. Keep your gadgets plugged in, but when you're not using them and they no longer need to be charged, all you would have to do it rotate the switch and no more power draining.  Perfect...