Jackie Chan has teamed up with Brammo to sell its motorcycles in Asia through his company JCAM Advanced Mobility Company Ltd.  Brammo’s initial offering is the Enertia, a motorcycle that will reach speeds of 60+ miles per hour and will travel 20 to 40 plus miles depending on your driving habits and route.

Mac-Gray Corporation, provides debit-card and coin-operated laundry equipment to various universities for student use.  Besides offering water and energy efficient equipment, Mac-Gray also provides green house gas (GHG) free equipment by partnering with Carbonfund.org.

Another company has entered the race to provide charging stations for the upcoming anticipated switch to electric vehicles.  Mahi Reddy’s Annapolis, Maryland company Semma Connect has joined the two California companies, Better Place and Coulomb, in providing electric vehicle charging stations.  Both Better Place and Coulomb have been working with retailers, universities, cities, states, and foreign countries to build charging station networks for electric vehicles so SemmaConnect has some catching up to do.

In recent years, many modular homes have been touted by eco-geeks as energy efficient, less wasteful to build and a greener alternative to traditional stick built homes.  A few large modular homes in Washington, DC are proving that prefabs are reaching beyond the original audience.  They are being embraced by the upper middle class/upper class as cheaper, quicker alternatives to traditionally built homes.

The ChargeHub lets you charge five different gadgets at the same time.  That frees up numerous outlets and clears away lots of wires.  You don’t need to go looking for that camera charger that you “stuck somewhere,” you just need the appropriate adaptor.  The ChargeHub will also save you energy since only one charger is drawing electricity and not two or more.

Green Job Spider has made finding a job in the green sector much less complicated.  The site has the usual “jobseekers/employee finder” features of other sites like Monster.com but only serves eco-friendly companies and jobseekers by combining the job offerings on other green job sites.

Several of the finalists from this years Greener Gadgets Design competition are actually available now.  Many of the design finalists are only in the concept design stage or have not made it to retailers.  There are five that you can purchase: the Automan 500, the Econav 480, the EnergyHub Dashboard, the Go Mechanical Charger and the RollerGen. 

Motorola’s newest environmentally friendly phone, the  MOTO™ W388 Renew+ has been certified CarbonFree® by the Carbonfund.org.  In order to be certified CarbonFree, products have to meet stiff requirements.  The product must be carbon neutral over its entire lifecycle from manufacturing through recycling.

The MOTO™ W388 Renew+ was manufactured using Motorola’s environmentally sound design factors:

Joos Orange by Solar Components is being billed as one of the most powerful portable solar charges soon to be released.   Joos Orange is expected to be 20 to 30 times more powerful than current chargers.  It will be light, thin, waterprooof and can work in low light conditions.

Today computer chips use tiny copper wires to convey information.  IBM has created nano silicon optical wires to replace the copper ones.  Light rather than electricity is used to send information.  Using silicon and light will significantly lower energy requirements as well as increase the speed at which computers process information.