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Tired of the cost and clutter created by the wires and adapters for your electronic devices? Well, a California company named Green Plug has come up with a solution. True universal power supply. This means no more digging through a drawer of tangled wires for device-specific adapters. With Green Plug’s compact external power adapter, you can charge all your devices with the same wire. In fact, you’ll never have to throw away any old adapters when you upgrade your laptop, DVD or mp3, because Green plug serves power to ANY device.

In addition to charging your device, the adapter shuts off power to the port when it registers that the device is fully charged and no longer needs it. This eliminates wasted energy and increases product efficiency. The Green Plug adaptor recognizes each device as it’s plugged in, and immediately knows how many Volts of power are necessary to charge them.

All of this sounds like a sweet deal to me, but to be able to use Green Plug, your device must have an embeddable chip necessary for recognition. Therefore, for a world of universal power supply to exist, leading electronics manufacturers need to adopt Green Plug’s design kits and incorporate the chips into their products. Green Plug assures that due to governmental efficiency mandates, this is already in the works. They also expect to start selling compatible devices sometime in 2009.

I, for one, can’t wait for the Green Plug future. Learn more about their plans and environmental impact on their website, and while you’re there, take a look their DEMO conference in California.

Searching for a way to make your business more eco-friendly? Well, take a lesson from the folks at the Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability and find out how they and their blog aid in promoting business sustainability.

The goal of the Institute is to foster and accelerate the global free market transformation to Sustainability. What that means is training companies, investors, and even government agencies on the use and benefits of sustainable products; thereby expanding their purchasing, communicating their advantages to the masses, and developing and investing product use by achieving market acceptance of sustainable supplier protocols.

“We believe it is possible to transform manufacturing and retail practices worldwide so that by 2015, sustainable products are available in 90 percent of the global marketplace,” IMTS proudly states.

By helping to increase the market and sale of sustainable products, IMTS boosts economic prosperity by creating as little waste as possible. With their blog and informational e-book (found on the blog homepage), IMTS reaches out to market developers, operational experts, business leaders and consumer advocates - all working to create a sustainable planet as well as a sustainable new, global economy. From there, those interested in fostering SMaRT standards can use their business to make a favorable social impact.

Explore the site to find out more.