Though not available to retail consumers just yet – think summer – Genesis Electronics‘ SunBlazer solar charger is designed to keep your cell phone battery at peak charge utilizing solar energy.  The latest design model, the G-3000, (pictured above with Apple’s iPhone), features a larger and more sophisticated solar panel, which the company states should translate into greater light gathering capability, and higher conversion to electrical energy and juice for your cellphone.

Genesis has recently acquired licensing rights to several patents from Johns Hopkins University to further enhance the SunBlazer’s capabilities.  The patents relate to solar technology designed to create a thin, extremely flexible, self-contained power source that can fit a variety of applications — even taking the shape of the device it powers.  Genesis intends to eventually offer solar charging products for a wide array of devices – ranging from laptops to a variety of hand-held and portable devices for consumer, industrial and military use.

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Say goodbye to that nylon or polyester-based bath sponge and treat yourself to a more planet- and body-friendly sponge botanically derived from renewable plant pulp.

By ecoTOOLS, regularly priced at $8.95, it’s available for $4.89 at vita.com

via: become.com.

Tokyo’s MisoSoupDesign (Daisuke Nagatomo & Minnie Jan) has created this conceptual prefab home for those desiring a completely modern habitat.  Roof mounted solar panels provide energy and a green roof keeps things cool and green, while irregularly shaped windows add variety and organic shapes to an otherwise sterile geometric form.

Live Pod’s exterior structural elements become part of its skin to provide a column free living space.  Although a prefabricated house, the design invites customization of the exterior wall, to any color and texture.  The structure’s walls not only act as the structural anchor of the house, but also host all mechanical, electrical, and HVAC ducts and cables, which are connected to the rooftop installations.  Duct work and cables are (more…)

For those who decorate for Easter or springtime celebrations – eggs, birds and bunnies are perennial favorites.

(above and below) These sweet home wares are fair trade made by artisans in need from around the world.  The boxes and hanging eggs are hand-painted, paper mâché; and the two-piece, Taj Stone Candle Holder is hand carved by the Asha (in Sanskrit, meaning “hope”) Handicrafts Association in India.  By either decorating your home or giving them as gifts, you’ll also be serving the greater good.

Extremely reasonably priced, beginning at $8 Spring Bunny box.  find @ serrv.org

SERRV is a nonprofit fair trade and development organization that’s been around since 1949, and their mission is “to eradicate poverty wherever it resides  by providing opportunity and support to artisans and farmers worldwide.”

Something to amuse us as we await the September 2010 release of the sequel to that seminal ode to greed and financial avarice, “Wall Street” – perhaps the financial wizards and money obsessed investment types in your sphere might need a little something to tide them over – how about a pair of sterling silver cuff links featuring a chunk of a vintage street map of NYC’s financial epicenter.  $52 from dlk designs