There’s always a lot of talk about how much game consoles cost to purchase but some information compiled by the Natural Resource Defense Council suggests you might want to consider how much they cost to run.

The NRDC is a nonprofit environmental action group with a staff of 300 policy experts. According to their numbers, a PlayStation 3 left on 24/7 costs as much to run annually as two brand new refrigerators, $124 a year. The Xbox 360 is only slightly better, blowing $103 per year. The Nintendo Wii is reportedly the most efficient at $10. This also supports a 2008 report by nonprofit Australian research company, Choice.

Here’s the second, supposedly far sexier installment of our list of Earth Day, green and otherwise earth-themed apps available that we could find.

This is the second of two parts so please enjoy the first as well.

You know with so many applications in Apple’s App Store there has to be a few Earth Day themed things to download. Here’s a look at the green, Earth Day and environmentally themed apps available that we could find (at the rate the App Store is growing, expect this to be outdated before you finish more »

These days conserving energy is a top priority especially with the amount of power the Xbox 360 and PS3 can consume on a daily basis. Although we have yet to see a serious attempt to make an environmentally friendly console, one device is planting the idea of wireless game controllers without batteries.

The Wind-Up Remote Control uses hand power instead of battery power. It works by rotating a wheel at the bottom of the remote until the controller…

As if responding to my previous post concerning the price of videogames and the cost of a tank of gas, KansasCity.com has posted an article concerning the energy consumption by videogame consoles…

Attention “green” gamers and anyone who cares about their electric bill: your next-gen consoles are ridiculously power-hungry. According to a post at Destructoid, a PS3 (not in use, but turned on) will run you $250 a year in electricity (about 5x what a refrigerator costs to run for the same amount of time). The Xbox more »

What do you get when you combine the creator of Robot Chicken, Seth Green, and rapper Percy Miller a.k.a, Master P? A future RPG game titled Play the Industry.

P Miller Enterprises, Green and Matthew Senreich’s Stoopid Monkey Productions and ShadowMachine Films have created a partnership to develop a game that enables gamers to enter a 3D world as either an athlete, power broker, hip-hop artist or other characters that must work their way up to stardom…