We’ve shared with you a couple of green credit cards, including the Eco-Friendly Credit Cards from Brighter Planet, the Veridian Corn Credit Cards and the Surfrider Foundation’s New Green Credit Card, but now we have one of the greenest cards to date: a biodegradable credit card from Discover.

Bates College, a private liberal arts college located in Lewiston, Maine, was recently recognized as a top green school by the Princeton Review and ecoAmerica’s Green Honor Roll, which rated over 600 colleges on their environmental policies, practices and academic offerings.

Maybe Bates received the rave review because 82% of its entire campus food waste is composted, recycled, or sent to a food bank or pig farmer, or maybe it’s because of the annual trash to treasure Trashion Show, which showcases some of the coolest outfits made from trash that was once bound for the landfill.

For 25 years the Surfrider Foundation has been dedicated to preserving our planet’s oceans, waves and beaches.  Now you can help this non-profit grassroots organization and CardPartner, a company that helps organizations and charities create credit card programs, protect the world’s water by purchasing the new Surfrider Foundation Visa Rewards green credit card.

By simply activating your card the bank will donate $50 to one of the Surfrider Foundation’s water conservation programs.

Today, more people are living an eco lifestyle than ever before, so it was bound to happen: climate friendly food labels.  Most consumers read food labels to check ingredients that are in the product, but now consumers in Sweden will be able to read climate-change friendly labels to check the manufacturer’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

Apple iPhones have become one of the most popular smartphones in the world. According to Fortune Magazine, iPhone sales increased by 245% in 2008, making Apple second only to Nokia in worldwide smartphone sales.

Besides having access to email and instant messenger, one cool aspect of the iPhone is the abundance of applications that you can download for it. For those of you living an eco lifestyle, there’s a new go green application that can be used to deliver useful green tips and news directly to your phone. It’s called The Green Brief.

Did you know that the average desktop computer consumes about 354-kilowatt hours of energy a day, and that 90% of that energy consumption comes from the computer being idle? So can you imagine how much energy a supercomputer consumes?

Researchers at IBM realized that about half of a supercomputer’s energy consumption comes from cooling the system to keep it from overheating, so they have designed a new green energy savings computer that will recycle the water-cooled microchips into heat for the surrounding room. It’s called the Aquasar.

Did you know that about 5%-10% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions are related to the manufacturing and transporting of concrete? In fact, about 20 billion tons of concrete are produced every year, and that certainly has an effect on your carbon footprint.

To reduce the global impact of concrete Engineers at MIT have created a more durable, eco friendly concrete that can last up to 16,000 years. This means less manufacturing of concrete, fewer CO2 emissions and less overall pollution.

Memorial Day weekend is the perfect time for getting together with family and friends. It means that summer is on its way, the kids are getting ready to finish school and neighborhood pools are officially opening. It’s also an ideal time to have an outdoor picnic that supports your eco-lifestyle!

Living an eco lifestyle includes going green in every aspect of your life, from using natural cleaning products that work to wearing organic clothing.

But did you ever think that a vending machine, which operates 24 hours a day and consumes thousands of kilowatt-hours of energy each year, would also be able to become a green energy efficient vending machine?

Forum for the Future, a charity committed to sustainable development, recently awarded a $75,000 first place prize in its global climate change competition. And the first place winner is…the Kyoto Box, a solar powered cooker that’s helping people in developing countries cook their food and practice living an eco lifestyle.