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Editorial Opinion

• NEW Add your favorite green goodies to our Holiday Guide to "Giving Green"! Lee Goldberg's editorial explains.
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Applications

• NEW Born-again CFLs: Don't throw away that dead compact fluorescent! Join Dennis Feucht in the DesignDen and let him show you how to dismantle, diagnose, and repair them.

Technical Notes

• NEW Learn from STMicro how to mitigate "tin whiskers" when using RoHS-compliant products.
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Product Reviews

• NEW Texas Instruments eZ430-RF2500 Wireless MCU Development Tool
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News - NEW

• This Week's Hot Item in greenPOWERZONE: Infineon's OptiMOS MOSFET family is now smaller and cooler-running.
• American Electric Power to employ large-scale molten sulphur batteries on distribution grid to time-shift up to 1000 MW of surplus wind power.
• Green-tech career conference to be held at UC Berkeley, Nov 17, 2007.

Special Reports

• NEW Lee Goldberg reports from CES on electronics recycling in the United States and how the climate may be becoming more favorable for a coordinated national standard to emerge.
• Greenpeace's Green Electronics Guide ranks worldwide consumer electronics firms on hazardous substance elimination and responsible recycling.
• Guest contributor Alex Weir, in a follow-on to Lee Goldberg's recent editorial on the pitfalls of electronic voting, outlines a system used to forestall vote tampering in developing nations.
• Patchwork E-waste regulations could prove costly.
• Mobile phone companies launch a significant environmental initiative.
• Renewable energy is poised for tremendous growth.
• Guest commentator Paul Tallentire of Newark In One explains why he believes nationwide RoHS and WEEE laws are imperative.
• Access the Special Reports Archive here.

Links & Resources

• Resources for choosing and purchasing environmentally preferable electronics:
  • EPA database of environmental information for electronic products and services.
  • Northwest Product Stewardship Council:
    • Electronic equipment and product stewardship.
    • A guide to environmentally preferable computer purchasing.
    • Rating system for computers and peripherals.
  • Product Stewardship Institute:
    Purchasing Environmentally Preferable Computers: A guide for government procurement officials.
  • Track the progress of EPEAT, a stakeholder effort to design and implement a tool for assessing the environmental performance of electronic products.
• US DOE's Updated Web Site Highlights Applications Of Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies.
• NREL's Center for Transportation Technologies highlights its efforts in development of low-cost, high-power integrated power electronics devices for hybrid electric and fuel cell vehicles.
• What's Green Design? Learn how designing products that incorporate environmental principles can improve the planet and your bottom line. Visit the Design Green web site, and download their 50-page green design reference guide.
• A new web site, EIATRACK, promises to track, analyze, and report on product-oriented environmental legislation for the electronics industry, covering more than 2000 laws in 120 jurisdictions, including product take-back and recycling, DfE, product stewardship, components, packaging, eco-labels, energy efficiency, hazardous waste, restricted substances, and more.
• BuildingGreen - Environmental Building News, Information on Environmentally Responsible Building Design & Construction.
• Resources in the green technology field.