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At least they are printing on both sides of the page, right?

Who is the mental giant who is responsible for this?

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I finally got my first bill from AT&T in a cardboard box containing 300 pages of it. Apparently, they give you a detailed transaction of every text message sent and received. Completely unnecessary.

I weep for the trees lost due to this stupidity.

I’m putting this on my Christmas Wish List.Via Ecofriend via Coolest Gadgets, a crank powered MP3 Player ($340) that gives you 40 minutes of listening time for every minute cranked…

The inventor of the Free Play Wind up radio, Travor Baylis is back again and this time with a much better earth-friendly gadget. The device known as the Eco Media Player requires you to wind it up to play music, watch videos, listen to radio, view photo albums and even read eBooks and all that will not require you to pay for electricity.

The player supports media and data of all types on its 2GB internal memory or via SD cards. The media player is so robust that it does not require you to sync it with a computer as when connected to a PC or a Mac it’s seen as an external drive which allows for easy “drag and drop” of all media files.

The device can also function as its own record and tape ripper to capture a large record collection into portable MP3s, it also comes with a microphone for recording voice memos. Another great feature of this device is that it can also act as a cellphone charger.

Via Got2BeGreen…

Many big metropolitan cities suffer from ugly smog and thick layers of pollution that can leave many with health issues like asthma or allergies. Fortunately a team of Italian inventors have found a solution for this increasing problem, pollution-eating cement.

Western Europe has already started to use the new cement called TX Active in building and streets. The town of Segrete in Northern Italy has repaved a street that sustains 1,000 cars per hour. Italcementi says it has measured 60 percent reduction in nitric oxide on that particular street.

Hug your Sysadmin today for it’s System Administrator Appreciation Day.

Our designer/sysadmin Noel kicks much ass and everyone at Planetsave and Green Options appreciates all the hard work he does having to deal with us non-coder types who sometimes break things when we shouldn’t.

I found this slightly juicy green news item over at Valleywag the other day. GigaOm, the well regarded tech blog, just introduced a new green tech site Earth2Tech. Om Malik, the founder and big cheese at GigaOm hired Adena DeMonte away from struggling tech mag Red Herring to run the site. I guess Om has poached a few other Red Herring writers (he used to write for them back in their golden days) and RH [...]