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Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your business: Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your businessIt's not your job to question.It is your job to feed Penelope and Rupert.RE: Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your businessYeah, remember that Alar stuff that was so bad? Oh, wait, it wasn't. Well, what about that really bad stuff, DDT? What do you mean I...; Tags: Oops IT, green tech blog, bad stuff, green technology; Discussion threads 2008-04-29
Some thoughts from Intel's green queen: Lorie Wigle: Here's a stat about Intel that you might not have heard: The company is currently the largest purchaser of alternative energy: an estimated 1.3 BILLION (yes, billion with a B) kilowatt-hours in annual green power usage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's latest Top 25 list. That's roughly 46 percent...; Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, KWh, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Podcasts, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Making the most out of Earth Day, the green tech way: Making the most out of Earth Day, the green tech wayCFL PromotionsIf you care to post it, I came across some CFL promotions while I was registering for an Earth Day event with a company called TCP. Apparently they are going to address the issue of Mercury and...; Tags: TCP/IP, Web site development, CFL Promotions, Earth Day, green technology; Discussion threads 2008-04-16
Making the most out of Earth Day, the green tech way: As you can imagine, my colleagues and I have been deluged with special promos and greenwash marketing campaigns related to the Earth Day event on April 22. I've combed through the e-mails and wanted to mention the following campaigns and programs that might interest you as a green IT buyer....; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Green Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Using green tech ideas to save paper: Using green tech ideas to save paperE-ink and audio books also helpFirst of all, I'm not so sure that books are really the biggest cause of problems.But if you really want to avoid the paper form of books, you can always get an E-Ink reader like Amazon.com's Kindle, or get...; Tags: green tech idea, green technology; Discussion threads 2008-04-12

Using green tech ideas to save paper: I've confessed in the not-so-distant past to my not-so-secret book addiction. There are easily 50 unread tomes on my bookshelf, but I still find it hard to resist a new author. Or a new title by a favorite writer. While the two Web sites that are...; Tags: Green Technology, Textbook, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-04-11
Nano's new frontier, green tech: Nano's new frontier, green techOrganic Farming -the panacea Green Tech for global environmental issuesOrganic farming is the only solution -going back to the basics-for all the evils committed in our intensive chemical based agicultural production world over.I'M INTERESTED in putting a link in my website www.farminggroup.org all those videos on...; Tags: green technology, Nano; Discussion threads 2008-04-10
Water, leaks and big money: It's going to cost a lot of money to fix America's leaky pipes. Not as much as it takes to occupy a country, in say, the Mideast, but a lot of money nonetheless. With inflation now hitting China and other Asian manufacturers, I suggest we fix these pipes...; Tags: Pipe, America, Green Technology, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-09
Money flowing into investments on route distant from Wall Street: One Silicon Valley venture capital firm announced they'll put a quarter-billion dollars into green tech. Runs counter to the frenzied state of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve where they think a bunch of bankers missing their annual bonuses is somehow a really important economic problem. Meanwhile, energy...; Tags: Green Technology, Wall, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-07
Air wars and the future of green tech firms: Right now American regs for air pollution and greenhouse gases are in suspension. You could say they're up in the air. At the center of this air war: the Environmental Protection folks (EPA). The EPA got hit with one new lawsuit this week, and the threat...; Tags: Green Technology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-04
(Photos: PARC prints green tech): (Photos: PARC prints green tech)PARC Exaggerations[i]PARC is like the Stonehenge of Silicon Valley. The mouse, the PC, Ethernet, and a lot of printer technology came out of its labs.[/i]The mouse was invented by Doug Englebart at Stanford Research Institute. The laser printer was invented by Xerox in NY, before...; Tags: Ethernet, Mice, Printers, photograph, Edison, Xerox PARC, green technology; Discussion threads 2008-04-04
Forrester: IT planners to get a jolt of green this year: Forrester Research believes IT operations folk and facilities managers will be fielding more and more green tech questions as the year wears on. And, amazingly enough, if you think about the main impetus that most businesses have to do this -- namely saving money -- this is one prediction that...; Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-04-03
Green tech cars will not get any federal help until November: Green tech cars will not get any federal help until NovemberThe Business of Politics is more important.. than trifling issues such as the environment, climate change etc. These are a mere bagatelle compared to the weighty issues that occupy the minds of the power that be and will be! Any...; Tags: Manufacturing, Green tech car, federal help, green technology; Discussion threads 2008-04-03
Green tech cars will not get any federal help until November: All those companies working on fuel cell cars, electric cars, plug-in cars and the long-awaited, not expected solar-powered cars...well, they'll not get any federal encouragement until after the November election. The latest chapter in the bizarre, Kafkaesque battle over national auto emission standards in the U.S. has...; Tags: Car, Green Technology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-02
Photos: PARC prints green tech: Xerox spinoff company is using technology from its printer business to make better solar cells and to purify water. by CNET News.com; Tags: Green Technology, Xerox PARC, Photograph, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-04-02
What is LEED?: "Going green" is becoming commonplace in the corporate world. Adam Grosser, general partner at Foundation Capital, explains LEED, the metrics used to certify the "green-ness" of a construction project.; Tags: Construction, Metrics, Green Technology, clean technology, Adam Grosser, Foundation Capital, LEED; Whiteboards 2008-03-31
Just how green tech are you? Go on, rate yourself: Just how green tech are you? Go on, rate yourselfNot green at all....7 Computers at home, running 24x7, 3 HDTVs (2 as monitors for the beefiest HTPC, Wireless Internet 24x7, IP Phones 24x7. Bring on the 'lectricity.You go green (and spend your money upgrading to "greener pastures" and I'll...; Tags: WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, green technology; Discussion threads 2008-03-28
Just how green tech are you? Go on, rate yourself: So, a few weeks ago I mentioned a survey from the University of Maryland that found consumers were ready to spend money on green tech (to the tune of $104 billion annually) but they're having trouble finding the right products to spend it on. One of the...; Tags: Green Technology, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-03-28
Biofuel's got an outspoken enemy: The Finance Minister of India has attacked biofuel as an outrageous use of food crops. He specifically cited the United States which he claims uses 20% of its corn for fuel, not food. Once American farm surpluses helped feed millions of people outside the country. Now the...; Tags: Food, India, Green Technology, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-03-26
A change that's headed right for Green Tech Industrial Park: We live in an era of change, you and I. Some unprecedented. Never before has the world shared a communications technooogy as flexible and open-ended as the Internet. In the days of newsprint or even broadcast, the concept of unlimited space or storage was inconceivable. I...; Tags: Food, Green Technology, Energy, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-03-25