Universal Cell Phone Charger Coming Soon…At Some Point…In the Maybe-Not-Distant Future…

Photo via kalleboo A common complaint about cell phones is that there is no universal charger — if you don’t have the one that works specifically for your phone, well, you’re just out of luck when your battery dies. It’s not only a hassle for cell phone owners, but it’s a huge problem for e-waste as the chargers become useless when the corresponding cell phones are tossed aside for newer models

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iPhone Game Features Heroic Fish Dodging Gulf Oil Spill Damage

Image via Elephant Journal We’ve had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill , and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It’s still an app about the life post oil disaster and it donates 30% of net proceeds to ecosystem restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Dual-Flush Toilet Retrofit, With Adjustable Flush (Video)

Image credit: Brondell Simple Flush Dual-flush toilets have always been popular here on TreeHugger. After all, it seems insane to use the same amount of drinking water to flush your number ones as your number twos.

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Is the UK’s First Green Cell Phone Rating System Bending the Rules?

Photo via KhE O2 , a communications company in the United Kingdom, has just launched the country’s first green cell phone ranking system — something of which Apple did not want the iPhone to be part . But G… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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3D Look Inside Whales’ Heads Shows Negative Effects of Marine Noise

Image via UCSD What happens inside a whale’s head when it encounters sound?

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NEC Makes Cashew-Based Bioplastic for Electronics

 Electronics company NEC has developed a bioplastic made with an extract from cashew nut shells and plant cellulose that is twice as strong as another bioplastic typically made from corn starch.

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Share and Share Alike: Can You Trust a Peer-To-Peer Rental System?

Ann Kadet of The Wall Street Journal looks at some of the new product service systems that are popping up, letting people live with less. She notes: “New Yorkers have always been big on sharing. It’s not that we can’t afford to buy our own stuff, it’s more that we just don’t have room for it.” She exposes the WSJ readership to Freecycle, the new SoBi (

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High-Tech Trash Bins Rat Out Residents Who Refuse to Recycle

Photo via orphanjones Cleveland residents are about to get an extra incentive to recycle — if they don’t, their trash bins will tattletale and they’ll be slapped with a $100 fine. The city is starting a new program that features trash bins embedded with microchips

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What are These Animals Doing in the Water? (Slideshow)

Photo via The Telegraph Fish aren’t the only creatures that like spending time in the water: From the bovines of the Bahamas’ Pig Beach and the water-loving Turkish Van cat to swimming orangutans, see more mammals unexpectedly jumping into oceans, rivers, lakes, and pools for a dip.

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Weekday Vegetarian: Make Refried Beans as a Base For Lots of Dishes

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I know, I know, this is not a photogenic dish. In fact, as one of my previous commenters eloquently noted about another post , it looks like something the cat cacked up. Nasty visuals aside, these refried beans are the base of lots of great Mexican dishes

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