Despite my love of fusion cuisine and four-star hotels, I have a dream of one day going off the grid. I’ve gotten as far as home composting and obsessive recycling, but not so far that I’ve given up eating meat or traveling by plane. So you can imagine my delight when I discovered that the clunky, complex stuff being sold by places like http://www.gaiam.com/ will one day be obsolete. (Do the words “photovoltaic modules” scare anyone else?) According to the New Jersey Institute of Technology, one day soon we’ll all be printing solar panels from our laptops.

It’s kind of like the time you used your Epson to make that Christmas card for Grandma. Kind of.

On a similar note, I recently discovered that baby bottles are manufactured out of the most toxic plastic created by man.