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Chapter 1Mother Nature’s Green-Eyed View of GadgetsIn This Chapter▶ Spelling out the meaning of green gadgets▶ Understanding the effect of the three R

18Part I: Settling into a Green Gadget Mindset Figure 1-4: The Toshiba Portégé R600. Toshiba’s “green procurement” initiative in all aspects of the P

19 Chapter 1: Mother Nature’s Green-Eyed View of Gadgets ✓ The R600 LED-type LCD display helps eliminate additional mercury. More and more computer ma

20Part I: Settling into a Green Gadget Mindset ✓ Transreflective display: You can see and use the display outdoors with the backlight turned off. Who

21 Chapter 1: Mother Nature’s Green-Eyed View of Gadgets The gadget is made from recycled plastic extracted from water bottles, and both the phone a

22Part I: Settling into a Green Gadget Mindset What, no wind today? No worries. Connect the HYMini to your bicycle’s handlebars or strap it to your

23 Chapter 1: Mother Nature’s Green-Eyed View of Gadgets ✓ Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS): This European directive restricts the use of si

24Part I: Settling into a Green Gadget Mindset ✓ Seven million of those products were sold by Best Buy, which, according to EPA calculations: • Save

25 Chapter 1: Mother Nature’s Green-Eyed View of Gadgets ✓ Program your thermostat to turn up the heat or cool things down only when you’re in the hou

26Part I: Settling into a Green Gadget Mindset Calculating the estimated carbon footprint of your household or individual gadgets by using one of thes

27 Chapter 1: Mother Nature’s Green-Eyed View of Gadgets ✓ Replace single-use disposable batteries in your gadgets with recharge-able ones that you ca

10Part I: Settling into a Green Gadget Mindset Hey, Joe, Where You Goin’ with That Green Gadget in Your Hand?Green gadget? What green gadget?Do you me

28Part I: Settling into a Green Gadget Mindset Figure 1-8: Hey, Joe, now where you goin’ with that green gad-get in your hand?

11 Chapter 1: Mother Nature’s Green-Eyed View of Gadgets Figure 1-1: A snooze button to put your computer to sleep. But my name would be Pinocchio if

12Part I: Settling into a Green Gadget Mindset ✓ 15 percent: The percentage of money spent on powering computers worldwide; the rest of the $250 bill

13 Chapter 1: Mother Nature’s Green-Eyed View of Gadgets ✓ Larger consumer electronics, such as TVs and computer monitors, are being manufactured with

14Part I: Settling into a Green Gadget Mindset Figure 1-2: Displaying the high-est level of gadget greenness. Defining gadgetsYou may want to ask, “S

15 Chapter 1: Mother Nature’s Green-Eyed View of GadgetsAt the annual Greener Gadgets Conference (http://greenergadgets.com), see Figure 1-3, people g

16Part I: Settling into a Green Gadget Mindset ✓ They can be recharged (or can recharge other gadgets) from sources other than electricity, such as b

17 Chapter 1: Mother Nature’s Green-Eyed View of Gadgets Adding to the problem are the thousands more discarded electron-ics that wind up as electro