This compact messenger bag serves as the perfect container for transporting your netbook or iPad. Nice and tailored, it’s a tasty exterior of chocolate (color) that’s handsomely crafted from organic cotton canvas, and lined with sunny yellow organic cotton. Kick up your eco quotient as you journey to your next meeting looking stylish and streamlined.

$75 @ Bag Du Jour’s Cargoh shop

• Safety first… Yoga Made Safer: Experts Provide Do’s and Don’ts – livescience
• She made the 1,100 mile trek on skis… UK Woman Crosses Antarctic Solo – bbc
• Hmm…894 sultry degrees and no oxygen… Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted on Venus – yahoo! news
• The numbers don’t lie… Study Links Rising Ocean Acidification to CO2 Emissions – treehugger
• Wildlife officials say they’re escaped pets, western interlopers and coyotes… Cougars Extinct in Eastern US? No Way, Say Those That Claim Sightings – msnbc
• Lessons in Coral Reef Survival Come From the Deep Past – sciencedaily
• Alternative transportation… Mexico Police: Robber Rode Skateboard to Banks – myway

Related: more eco news on The Alternative Consumer

Yoga photo via shutterstock.com

British inventor, Alvin Smith, and the British energy company, Ecotricity, are developing a new wave energy device called the Searaser to create electricity by harnessing the power of ocean swells. The basic device consists of (see the video above) a vertical piston between two buoys — one on the surface of the water, the other suspended underwater and tethered to the seabed.

As the ocean waves activate the buoys up and down, the piston works like a bicycle pump – sending seawater through a pipe either directly to an onshore turbine, or to a coastal water storage reservoir that can then release the water to turn the hydro-electric turbine and generate electricity on demand.

via: bbc.com