Nissan unveils a couple of concept cars and shows off its fully electric vehicle, the Nissan Leaf. In addition, the company announces when consumers in Canada can purchase the Leaf, already on sale in part of the US.

Ford Canada President and CEO David Mondragon talks about the years ahead and what they hold for Ford. With talk of quality improvements for Ford vehicles, fuel savings in new models and even Ford's first production electric vehicle, the Ford Focus EV.

Checking in with MINIWIZ, makers of some innovative and eco-friendly tech gear, Sean learns about three new products from the company. All focused around eco-friendly home decor, meet The Jellies, The Leaf and The Peanut. A recycled LED light, an iPad controlled LED ceiling lighting system and innovative furniture for a small space respectively.

In this episode, we show you

FuelEconomy.gov

, a

free online resource

that you can use to judge

vehicle fuel efficiency

. You can use this to rate your own vehicle's

carbon footprint

or to

research potential automobiles

that you might be interested in purchasing.

"Hypermilers," a weird subset of drivers obsessed with squeezing every last meter out of a tank of gas, will have a field day with this. The less OCD afflicted among us can also use the data provided to get an idea of how our driving style affects both the environment and pocketbook. Idling, driving stop-and-go, accelerating and braking too fast all have an impact on how much gas our cars consume. The EconoDriver brings that impact into sharp focus.

If you're anything like us, you generate a ton of dead batteries in the course of powering your gadgets and gear. If you're anything like us, you don't want to throw said dead batteries in the trash, but you don't quite know what do do with them. Enter Raw Materials Company Inc.. This is the company that empowers a continent-wide recycling effort dealing with batteries, electronics and more.
From the

Green Living Show Toronto 2010

show floor.

You want to live green, you want to compost, grow your own vegetables, eat local, cut out meat, ride your bike to work etc. but it's difficult to change all at once. Sanyo's eneloop bike helps you with the latter point while still getting you to work without looking like a sweaty mess. As you pedal, the eneloop bike will do what's called "pedal assist" to power you up hills and generally help you keep your cool while still lowering your footprint.
From the

Green Living Show Toronto 2010

show floor.

If you're prepared to drop over $125,000 on a car, chances are you're not too concerned about saving money on gas. Dropping $125 large on a high performance all electric car would suggest that you have a green streak though and are more concerned about things like your carbon footprint than your pocket book.
From the

Green Living Show Toronto 2010

show floor

Earth Day started 40 years ago, but now, perhaps more than ever before, we really need to start thinking collectively about the world's energy and waste problems. Stacy Reed shares some educational websites that are sure to inspire people of all ages to take action!

Video coverage of CTIA 2010

: From the

CTIA 2010 show floor

, Andrew Moore-Crispin gets a look at the eco-friendly

Remarq

feature phone from LG. Using part recycled materials in its construction and with an end of life where nearing 90% of the phone can be recycled, this QWERTY slider messaging phone may prove a tempting proposition for eco-friendly texting addicts.

While great strides have been made in PC energy efficiency, your lowly PC is still a strain on the grid your pocket if you accidentally leave it running all hours of the day. PC Auto Shutdown will step up to turn off your PC when you forget to.

On the hunt for a utility that will make her computer a little bit more environmentally friendly, Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download found the Green Toolbar and PC Utility. This little toolbar is rides along with your favorite browser, is fairly unobtrusive and helps you to set up the most

earth-friendly power and printer settings

possible. It also offers fun links to green news, helpful

earth-friendly tips

.

Motorola's W233 Renew phone is a pretty standard candybar style handset. It does the mobile mainstays: phone, text and mobile browsing. It also comes with a stereo headset and can accept MicroSD memory so it can double as an MP3 player. The real story here is that the phone is made with recycled materials and also includes a postage-paid envelope that, allowing you to send your old phone off for recycling.

You may not be quite ready to install solar panels and wind turbine power generators on your roof, but at least you can get your personal devices and pocket-sized gadgets off the grid. In this last episode in our Earth Week 2009 series, Stacy Reed looks at solar chargers, energy usage monitors and more.

In honor of Earth Week, Stacy Reed continues the Green Computing series with a look at some of her favorite green-themed blogs. These blogs offer everything from insight into minimizing our respective environmental impact to delicious organic recipes and everything in between.

These green extensions help you to do your part in saving energy and resources while surfing the web with Firefox. Add any or all of these Firefox extensions to track your energy use, invert black text on white pages as displaying black requires less energy on CRT monitors and even save paper when printing web pages.

We're all trying to do our part to minimize our collective footprint on the Earth. These green-friendly web sites help in tracking your carbon footprint, energy usage and overall impact on the earth. Whether you're an individual trying to figure out how much energy you're using or you represent a multi-national company, here are some simple tips that can help us all to chip in.

Computers use a lot of power. You can make your own computer as energy efficient as possible using these simple software tools. Windows XP and Vista (as well as Mac OSX and open source alternatives not covered here) include power management software. The programs we look at here go much further and allow you to fine-tune your computer's power management strategy. You'll save money on your energy bills and, more importantly, you'll be working toward minimizing your computer's impact on Mother Earth.

Using both the sun and the wind to charge your gadgets, miniWIZ has a great solution for portable power generation without generating waste.

We're all trying to be at least a little more energy efficient and energy conscious. P3 International with its Kill-a-Watt line of power monitors and timers makes it easy. With these devices you can get an idea of how much power a device or set-up in your home costs and also power down or power up at a set time.

Over at Samsung's booth at CES, we get the scoop on what's coming up in LCD televisions. What we're seeing is that many of the features previously reserved for the high-end top of HDTV product lines are starting to show up in mainstream TVs. Take for example LED backlighting technology that allows for a higher contrast range while using less power than traditional backlighting methods.

Green was one of the predominant themes on the show floor. Along with the dubious Green claims and me-too green reactions were some pretty impressive displays of eco-friendliness. The section of Sony's CES booth dedicated to all things environmentally friendly was one such example.

Harnessing the power of the sun to charge either 2AA or 2AAA batteries or just about any device that can be charged via USB, Energizer's aptly titled Solar Charger is a relatively inexpensive way to charge up with solar power. The solar panel manually swivels 180-degrees to get the best sun exposure and it fully charges 2AA batteries in about 20 hours. Sure, it's a bit slow but the energy it collects is free.

Cheryl Poirier is back, this time practical tips for saving ink and toner when printing documents. EcoPrint2 Ink and Toner Saver goes beyond the Best / Normal / Draft settings of your printer and can save you up to 75 per cent on ink.
A savings calculator allows you to input the average cost of a color or black cartridge along with how many cartridges you use in a month to give you an estimate of how much money you're saving.

Stacy Reed runs through some of the best software, web sites, blogs, extensions, widgets and doo-dads that help you to understand and potentially lessen your environmental footprint. Follow along with this week-long series