BioLite Campstove = Backpacking Stove + Off-Grid Power Charger

          The BioLite Campstove is the combination of a backpacking stove as well as an off-grid power charger so you are able to cook a meal while charging your electronic gadgets at a country camping area. This mini campstove uses biomass, which decreases your carbon footprint and eliminates the ned to carry the extra weight of a solar power panel and fuel canisters.
          Simply imagine how relaxing Labor Day Weekend would be when you are able to cook your meals along with charging your devices using only firewood. However, the gadget may be heavy so if you may think finding dry wood would be hard, it may not be worth carrying the weight. Though, this mini campstove is handy when you need a power source to charge your devices and cook your meals at the same time.

Charging Stations in NYC

          Low on your electronic device battery, whether it's your tablet, phone or mp3, and need that extra charging boost? Tired of constantly looking for a store in the city that may have a spare outlet to plug your charger and charge it? Well, thanks to AT&T, Goal Zero and Brooklyn-based design studio Pensa called Street Charge, there will be 25 new solar stations. In other words, it defines as a convenient and fresh way to charge your device within a few blocks from your location.
          Street Charge will be equipped with iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 chargers, as well as microUSB and USB cords for charging other devices. The solar power is derived from three 15-watt solar panels and is stored in lithium-ion batteries, both provided by Goal Zero, and thus, has the capacity to charge your device day and night. The devices are able to charge within a couple of hours, specifically in 4 hours.

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Solar Project Development - There's an app for that!

       In these days where technology is constantly advancing in society, there has continuously been many varieties of apps in the market that may satisfy anyone's needs. Even solar installers and developers have thought of the idea that they should possibly develop their own app (as business is usually operated when you choose to accommodate the needs of the public, which also includes the topic of conveniently having your services be available).
       A recently developed app, known as Solar Site Design (SSD), happens to be a free app available to anyone that may possess a smartphone or any smart electronic device. The app, in essence, is a project management solution for solar professionals in that it helps streamline the project development process by enabling mobile data gathering and uploading project specifications to the content management system. The data for all active projects is, then, available anywhere and anytime (either with the app or on a web browser) so that solar installers and solar professionals are able to view the files on hand.
       Solar Site Design's aim is to reduce the "soft costs" of solar project development by streamlining the process of acquiring new customers and having convenient access to local utility processing and any paperwork required. Project professionals can also input data, pictures, and even videos of the solar site during project walk-throughs and accessibility through the app or the website.
       According to Eco Branding, a company specialized in providing marketing services to clean-tech and sustainable businesses, they compliment the use of SSD as follows:

    Typically, installers will visit each site multiple times, and files permitting and municipality regulations in order to get all the requisite information for feasibility drawings. However, with SSD's free application, installers are guided through a data collection process at their initial sales visit with home or business owners. Once all the data is synced to the Solar Site Design interface, SSD's team of solar engineers look over the data and prepare a feasibility report for the installers. Depending on the scale of the project, the report can take between 2 and 5 business days. This technology reduces costs for contractors and makes it easier to acquire more customers.

As Summer comes, how useful is a Solar-Powered Bikini?

     When you're at the beach and you forgot to charge your MP3 or phone, what do you do? Do you wait in the car charging up your device while your friends are having fun in the sun? If so, this may come in handy: a solar-powered bikini!
      Invented by a Brooklyn-based designer, Andrew Schneider, this invention is able to power up your electronic devices but is able to be completely safe to wear in the water. Not only that but Schneider is actually accepting custom orders for the bikinis as well.

Schneider spends about 80 hours on each bikini, hand-stitching super-slim flexible photovoltaic film strips together using conductive thread

The swimsuit also comes with a USB connector that you can plug into your phone or mp3 to power up your device using the sun's rays