If you’re a college student then there’s no doubt that you have a computer. How else would you be able to chat with your friends, send email, take notes in class and download your favorite music…all at the same time? No matter where you look, whether it’s on campus, at a local café, in a bookstore or on the metro, you’ll see college students carrying their favorite laptop around.

Unfortunately, even though computers are a necessity to pretty much everyone in the world, they also waste a lot of energy. People don’t realize how much energy is used when a computer is left on all night, and according to an article on NPR, they’re also a huge contributor of greenhouse gases.

Just this past Tuesday Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs introduced a great solution to the average energy-consuming and waste-generating computer: the MacBook Air. Here are some cool eco-friendly features it has:

• Recyclable aluminum case
• Mercury-free LCD display
• Arsenic-free glass
• PVC-free internal cables
• BFR-free circuit boards
• Low volume packaging

You can read more about the release of the MacBook Air here.

Going Green for a High Price

Just like I mentioned in my Green Sports Car blog, I think that it’s great that more products are going green, but they’re also getting more expensive because of it! The MacBook Air is a great idea, but it also costs $1, 799! If manufacturers want college kids and the average citizen to be more environmentally-aware, then they have to make products within their affordable price range.

I do believe that there is a great “green” shift in our future, and I have the hope that prices will adjust accordingly. We’ll just have to wait and see…