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I'm sure you could create your own similar list from products you've bought with high hopes but then experienced disappointment. These are five that make green claims they're unlikely to realize: 1. Designer waters. Regular bottled water is bad enough, but when it goes upscale -- that's when it...

With oil prices soaring on the region's turmoil, alternative energy such as wind is again gaining attention. But wind technology hasn't been standing still: Its power output worldwide jumped by 22% last year. However, it's still nowhere near ready to compete with oil.

Flushable cat litter is sometimes marketed as green, but here's the rest of the story: It's not if you flush it down the toilet. That's right. Don't flush "flushable" cat litter, scientists say. Double bag it and send it to a sanitary landfill. By flushing cat poop, pet owners unwittingly may...

Be on the lookout for "solar-powered," "air-powered" or "wind-powered" cars. Renewable energy is great, but it is absolutely incapable of being the sole on-board source of power for car and truck engines. It won't happen now, and it won't happen in the near future. George Jetson can buy a car like...

Some TVs use as much electricity as a refrigerator, one of the home's biggest energy hogs. Yet big-screen TVs come in energy-efficient models at prices comparable to the electricity-gobbling beasts. Trouble is, you can't spot them just by looking at them. Side by side, they may appear identical,...

Is the Nissan Leaf or any of the other battery cars now hitting the market "zero emission"? No, actually not, though it may seem like a no-brainer-if a car doesn't have a tailpipe, it doesn't have any emissions, right? In reality, electric cars produce emissions because they plug into a grid...

Those energy-saving little LED bulbs advertised as eco-friendly -- and used in strings of holiday lights and in car headlights -- actually contain toxic lead, arsenic and some other bad stuff, new research shows. Alarming? Sure. But in a surprise twist, a study author says: Buy them anyway.

Steven Glenn of Santa Monica lives in "the greenest house on the planet," BusinessWeek says. Which sounds exciting -- except Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute also lives in "what may be the greenest house on the planet," as this video put it. Lovins has no furnace and pays nothing...

The push for alternative fuel vehicles continues as state, federal and private funds are used to promote new technologies. Following former President George W. Bush's incentives for fuel stations to expand access to biofuels, President Obama has increased the promotion of alternative vehicles over...

Consumer history is littered with products, gadgets and items that consumers love to love, only to later hate them. Remember margarine, the Atkins Diet and Barbie, to name a few? WalletPop asked experts for other products that consumers have fallen out of love with lately. Here are five they say...