How To: Green Your iPod

iPod Nano's and iPod Classic's eco-friendly characteristics--they're arsenic-free glass, brominated flame retardant-free, mercury-free, PVC-free--go a long way to greening electronics. With Apple constantly greening their product, the onus is now falling on users to make the most of battery life to maximize power efficiency, so NaturallySavvy is offering up our solutions for greening the energy-sucking electronics that we just can't live without.

Maximizing energy use is the top priority. The simplest thing you can do is turn the light setting to off on an iPod nano or to 50% on an iPod Classic or iTouch. Lowering the light level or turning it off altogether during the day will up your battery life significantly, reducing the number of times you have to recharge.

Associated Content also lists options for extending the life of your iPhone battery, including turning off the Wi-Fi radio and the equilizer, limiting e-mail checks, and a number of other simple energy saving tips.
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Comments

[frantaylor]

02:26 AM on 01/19/2009

On the grand scale of things, one of the most ecological ways to charge your iPod is to plug it in. You are tapping into a very efficient power generation system and you are not using yet another manufactured device with toxic batteries or what have you. Perhaps you could do better with a bicycle charger or solar cells but you are still creating more demand for devices manufactured with toxic substances.

[frantaylor]

02:18 AM on 01/19/2009

The energy required to fabricate an iPod charger far exceeds the amount of energy that will ever pass through it.

[KillTheMessenger]

09:51 PM on 01/17/2009

The human brain uses hundreds of times more power than an iPod. Sadly, in many cases the iPod is more intelligent.

:-)

[jpperry]

08:25 PM on 01/16/2009

iPods use very little electricity. This should be last on anyone's list of ways to save energy.

[Bjarni]

02:22 PM on 01/16/2009

IPhone Solar Powerd Battery Charger
http://www.ecoloblue.com/en/store/isunpower

[frantaylor]

02:23 AM on 01/19/2009

Eco-gibberish. You are saving virtually NO energy and these devices contain lots of toxic chemicals that will require even more energy to process WHEN you throw the piece of junk away.

[jake106]

08:42 AM on 01/16/2009

This is a pretty cool idea. Another good one I've seen is a solar powered battery charger. Talk about energy conservation...

[redhot200822]

06:14 PM on 01/15/2009

Smartest thing I've read on HuffPo all day. This will save thousands and thousands of watts of power. We must all do our part.

[frantaylor]

02:19 AM on 01/19/2009

You know that an iPod uses almost no power and that this will save almost no energy? We would save FAR more energy if we replaced 100 watt bulbs with 99 watt bulbs.