It’s not easy being green. Kermit the Frog said that once. However, as the years have passed since Kermit’s glory days, it turns out.. it IS easy being green. In fact, the folks at Rogers’ discount carrier Fido are making it easier than ever to be kind to the environment. All of Fido’s eco-friendly devices…
O2 UK is supporting Earth Hour this weekend
It’s nice when you can do an Environmental post from time to time – and this is no exception! O2 UK have been telling anyone that wants to listen what they are doing about Earth Hour, this weekend. Gareth Rice, O2’s Head of Environment, had this to say: On Saturday at 8.30pm people across the…
LG Remarq Eco-Friendly, Coming to Sprint
Sprint has announced the LG Remarq at CTIA Wireless, their second eco-friendly phone after the Reclaim. The LG Remarq is a modest little slider with a 1.3 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, and a 16 GB-capable microSD memory card slot, but the whole phone is 87% recyclable, and is itself made of 19% post-consumer plastic. The…
Nokia runs ‘Easy to be Green’ campaign
The folks from Nokia’s environmental team have put together a series of videos to show us how using our mobile devices can help us have less impact on the environment. The first video on “mobile Internet browsing” is already out there, and during the next week or so more will follow. These videos will handle…
Quickie: Fido Launches Motorola W388 Renew+ in White
Over the weekend, the good folks at Fido added to their lineup, in the form of a new color variation. They’ve added the Motorola W388 Renew+ in White. Previously available in ‘Charcoal’ only, the W388 Renew+ is a ‘green’ device to say the very least. It’s made from 25% post-consumer recycled plastics, and the housing…
O2 mobile phone recycling scheme pays out £1m to customers
O2 Recycle, a mobile phone (and other stuff) recycling service which is O2 branded, has generated a massive £1 million in cash pay outs for customers, less than five months since its launch in October 2009. The service is operated by phone recycling specialist Redeem Plc and aims to re-use as many of the unwanted…
Google Maps For Mobile Cycling Directions Coming Soon
Google today announced that their browser-based Maps will be including bicycling directions, on top of existing car, public transit and walking directions. Dedicated bike paths are in dark green, while bike-friendly routes are marked in light green, and passable ones are dotted green lines. While bicycle directions are restricted to those visiting maps.google.com for now,…
AT&T requires handset makers go eco-friendly, adopt green retail packaging
These days, if you’re not going green, you’re not going anywhere. AT&T knows this and is embracing the eco-friendly movement with a new initiative to reduce the size of their wireless accessories’ retail packaging. And, to help further their “green” cause, AT&T will also be requiring their mobile phone manufacturers to embrace new packaging guidelines…
Continental Airlines expands its Mobile Boarding Pass option to London
Today Continental Airlines announced that it would be bringing its mobile boarding pass option to the Heathrow Airport in London. The service provides a customer an easy way to board their flight without the use of paper boarding passes. While the green approach to saving paper is great and all, for geeks like us, we’re…
Sprint expands Buyback program to include more phones, instant credit
Sprint is really pushing the green approach. Its Buyback program that gives credit to customers with old phones has been extended to three phones per account. Sprint hopes to increase the rate of mobile phone recycling by offering more incentive for customers. That will probably work. For those who are in the dark as to…