Monday: April 12, 2010
- Starbucks giving away free coffee on April 15th, bring your own mug.
The free coffee giveaway is an effort to raise awareness that we should all be ditching paper cups in favor of switching to a more reusable environmentally-friendly coffee container. This container would probably be a cylinder mug-like type of object - most likely a mug. More info (and a short flick) over here.
Thursday: January 14, 2010
- A handy guide on how to give Android a whirl on your Windows machine.
Want to see what the Android operating system is really like before you take the plunge over to one of these devices? Follow this guide and you'll be able mess around with it on your beloved desktop and see for yourself.
Friday: November 20, 2009
- The fifty best inventions of 2009 according to TIME.
Covers everything from tank-bred tuna all the way up to fashion robots. Looking for the worst inventions of 2009? There's a list for that.
Friday: October 16, 2009
- The top twenty ways that web developers can reduce their carbon footprint.
Based on the theory that a black Google could save 750 Megawatt-hours a year, Blackle is just that. It's identical to the real Google with an energy-saving black color scheme.
Wednesday: October 7, 2009
- Some recycling facts that may actually surprise you.
Recyclable glass almost always refers to 'container' glass -- that is, bottles and jars. Other types, like windshields and Pyrex, have different melting points and are not accepted by most recyclers.
Friday: September 25, 2009
- Apple would really like you to know just how green they really are.
Our life cycle analysis accounts for all emissions associated with our products. That includes raw material extraction, manufacturing, packaging, transportation, a three- or four-year period of use, and recycling.
Friday: September 11, 2009
- Eight signs that you're an energy-hogging jerk.
If you refuse to turn off your computer, take long hot showers, leave the TV on, idle your car, crank up the AC, leave the fridge open too long, use unneccesary lighting equipment and/or drink bottled water then you are a jerk.
Wednesday: August 26, 2009
- Reject watermelon juice just might a good source for biofuel.
As well as using the juice for ethanol production, either directly or as a diluent for other biofuel crops, Fish suggests that it can be a source of lycopene and L-citrulline, two ‘nutraeuticals’ for which enough demand currently exists to make extraction economically worthwhile.
Wednesday: August 19, 2009
- You can blame global warming on ancient farmers says new study.
Ruddiman said that starting thousands of years ago, people would burn down a forest, poke a hole in the soil between the stumps, drop seeds in the holes and grow a crop on that land until the nutrients were tapped out of the soil. Then they would move on.
Friday: July 10, 2009
- Want to know how much CO2 an online CNN article produces?
...depending on how quickly you read, around 80, perhaps even 100 milligrams of C02 have been released. And in the several minutes it will take you to get to the end of this story, the number of milligrams of greenhouse gas emitted could be several thousand, if not more.
- Ten wind turbines that push the limits of design.
An interesting read those interested. Some of these designs are quite aesthetically pleasing also.
Monday: July 6, 2009
- Yahoo's next data center to be powered by Niagara Falls?
Western New York has been courting big data centres thanks to the relatively cheap electricity it can generate from Niagara Falls, and was disappointed last year when HSBC pulled the plug on a $139m, 275,000 square foot data centre that was to open in nearby Cambria, New York.
- Soon you'll be able to grab a Big Mac while charging your electric car.
...a new North Carolina McDonald's will include electric vehicle (EV) recharging stations, part of the ChargePoint network. While you stuff your face, your car could be stuffing its battery.
- Empire State Building and other important skyscrapers going green to attract new tenants.
Buildings that define city skylines across the country, some national icons, are catching up to the sleek, new structures designed with efficiency in mind, as property owners and managers become convinced that a greener building now makes financial sense.
Thursday: July 2, 2009
- Five climate studies that don't actually live up to their hype.
...many news stories prematurely attribute local or regional phenomena to climate change. This can lead to the dissemination of vague, out-of-context or flat-wrong information to the public.
Wednesday: July 1, 2009
- Does Apple really have the greenest line of notebooks?
...NAD opined that Apple should modify its 'world's greenest family of notebooks' claim 'to make clearer that the basis of comparison is between all MacBooks to all notebooks made by a given competitor' and to 'avoid the reference to 'world's greenest' given the potential for overstatement.'
Friday: June 26, 2009
- Your next house could very well come out of a printer.
Once printed, it only takes about 24 hours for the material to fully set. The process is also pretty environmentally sound, and if any of the building material remains unused, it can be recycled.
- Harvesting rainwater a good way to save money? Think again.
Article will show you just how to do it though, for those interested in taking on the process.
Wednesday: June 24, 2009
- Microsoft unveils brand new energy conservation website.
Sounds like a neat concept once it actually comes out of beta land.
Tuesday: June 23, 2009
- Wind power could theoretically yield forty times more than the current global electricity use.
The numbers that come out of the analysis are quite impressive: maxing out deployment of current-generation technology could produce five times the total energy used in the world today, and 40 times the electricity.
Monday: June 22, 2009
- Scientists over at Columbia University working on 'synthetic tree' to reduce air emissions.
The technology is similar to that used to capture carbon from flue stacks at coal-fired power plants, but the difference is that the 'synthetic tree' can catch carbon anytime, anywhere.
Friday: June 19, 2009
- Deutsche Bank pulls the curtain back on new real-time carbon gas emission counter.
Apparently the billboard itself is environmentally friendly as well. Just another reason to visit New York City.
- Ditch your gas guzzler for a more efficient one and you may get $4,500 towards a new one.
President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law the 'cash for clunkers' program, which was approved by the Senate on Thursday. For owners of low-mileage models such as the 1994 Ford Bronco, 1998 Nissan Pathfinder or the 1995 Chevrolet Blazer, the plan could give them a reason to visit their local car dealer during an economic downturn.
Tuesday: June 16, 2009
- Ominous high-altitude wind machines could one day power New York City.
The very best ground-based wind sites have a wind-power density of less than 1 kilowatt per square meter of area swept. Up near the jet stream above New York, the wind power density can reach 16 kilowatts per square meter. The air up there is a vast potential reservoir of energy, if its intermittency can be overcome.
Monday: June 15, 2009
- A handy tutorial on how to fuse plastic bags into your very own laptop case.
There are many things you can do with the many plastic bags floating around in the world, such as make plastic yarn and knit a funky bag from it, or make a kite! Either way, the durability that makes plastic bags bad for the environment can make them good accessories.