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- Googling will wreck the environment!
- According to the Times of London, a newspaper which has no problem chopping down trees to distribute spread garbage like this story, each Google query you make pumps 7g of CO2 into the air. Techcrunch gives us some realistic comparisons, and a suggestion that will both save...
- Tags: Google Inc., Environment, Carbon Dioxide, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-01-11
- Air pollution finds a home
- Carbon Sciences says it has come up with a relatively efficient way to turn carbon dioxide from smokestacks into chalk, which can then be used to make drywall or other products. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos checks out the company's mobile prototype with CEO Derek McLeish.
- Tags: news, michael kanellos, carbon dioxide, chalk, environment
- Videos 2008-02-19
- Plastic is good for our environment (and computers)
- Plastic is good for our environment and computersPlastic Good??What you seem to be forgetting is that you can grow more trees, rear more cows. I haven't heard of anyone yet that has been able to grow more oil??? As we move more towards renewable and sustainable energy sources such as...
- Tags: Plastic Good?, carbon dioxide, environment, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-12-01
- The green side of IP telephony
- Up until two months ago, I was a horrible carbon dioxide offender. No excuses, really, other than the fact that my daily commute took me over two bridges from my New Jersey home out to Long Island. My duties demanded serious "face time" with my staff.Days when the New York...
- Tags: Telephony, Green Technology, Environment, Carbon Dioxide, IP Telephony, IP, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
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- Washington: lots of talk about global warming
- Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Apple declares its environmental credentials
- Much has been cyber-ink has been spilled (spilt?) over the past several days about Apple's new Environmental disclosure site called, aptly enough, Apple and the Environment. For all its vaunted and legendary hipness, Apple hasn't been as vocal as its high-tech rivals in the green IT...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Eco-ears: Why downloading your music from the Internet is inherently more green
- Someone, somewhere in Apple's Cupertino headquarters is kicking themselves for not thinking of jumping on this theme first: Intel and Microsoft have published a whole bunch of case studies and scholarly analyses that look at the various impacts of technology-enabled habits and processes on the environment. One of the...
- Tags: Internet, CD, Album, Music, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'
- Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'Wow, this is a real tech issue.NOT.Oh come on! :) A tree hugger like you?Doesn't want Congress spending a measly 3 billion dollars to add 10 MPG to a million drivers?Think of all the *gasoline* that won't be burnt!...
- Tags: clunker
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.
- Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.typical responseHow about the fuel needed to harvest the corn, fertilize, transport and impact on wild life.Corn for ethanol is a scam!Now, if this had been an oil exectalking about the abundance of oil, advancing technologies in drilling and refining oil, etc. You'd be all...
- Tags: carbon dioxide, Ethanol, ethanol, corn
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
- World Wildlife Fund releases new reports on how virtual meetings can cut carbon dioxide AND increase productivity
- World Wildlife Fund releases new reports on how virtual meetings can cut carbon dioxide AND increase productivityVirtual Journalism Summit is a Great ExampleLast night I attended the 1st [b]Virtual Journalism Summit[/b], sponsored by The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, in partnership with the McCormick Foundation. Co-speakers for this...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Second Life, virtual meeting, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- American cap and trade--it's alive, unless it's dead already
- American cap and trade--it's alive, unless it's dead alreadyCap and Trade = Bad ideaWhy? Because the people who are most likely to be driving 'carbon-polluting' vehicles are the poor and middle class.If they TRULY wanted to do something about the amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon byproducts from cars...
- Tags: Manufacturing, car
- Discussion threads 2009-04-05
- EPA, CO2 and reality
- EPA, CO2 and realityI'll cry a riverIf you want a laugh, look at some of the predictions of the environmental idiots:http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/quotes.htmlAnd here I thoughtyou had actually engaged your brain and realized just how asinine it is to insist that a substance absolutely vital to the existence of the base...
- Tags: carbon dioxide, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Hybrids not selling either
- Hybrids not selling eitherWaste of money and a trickThe entire environmental whacko green movement is based on a lie.RE: Hybrids not selling eitherIf there is no money, it doesn't matter what your selling, it won't sell (you bunch of dummy's!)I agree.While I think it's important to try and minimize our...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Tesla Motor, Carbon tax, tax, car, green technology, environment
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- Green tech calculators you can count on, literally
- For those seeking practical tools that can help them get a better handle on the energy and carbon dioxide emissions they're producing, I have not one but three different online calculator type tools to point to in this blog entry. They aren't exactly comparable, but serve different purposes that might...
- Tags: Rackspace, Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Blog Entry, Tool, Forrester Research Inc., Productivity, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Signs of Armageddon: We're worrying about CO2 emissions of a Google search
- Take some interesting science statistics. Mix in a well-known company such as Google. Stir well. And you have a bunch of malarkey about how searching the Web is killing the planet. I suppose there's nothing else to worry about on the weekend Techmeme. First...
- Tags: Google Inc., Carbon Dioxide, Google Search, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Carbon neutrality murkier than you'd think
- Carbon neutrality murkier than you'd thinkvet what?Dell could increase their carbon output and just buy more carbon credits from some agency with vague claims of planting trees, none of which is ever shown. It does nothing to reduce footprint.Carbon Neutrality is a ploy, and carbon trading is an advertising...
- Tags: carbon, global warming, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-30
- Blue Jeans, Not Green
- NOw that many of us no longer wear white shirts and neckties, now that suits or even dress slacks are not often work-requirements, the uniform for many of us includes a pair of jeans. I am wearing a pair right now. One environmental group just asked "How Green...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Levi Strauss, Cotton, Retail, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-13
- Court's decision is boon for alternative energy
- Good news for alternative energy technologies: An environmental review board has shot down EPA approval of a new coal plant, saying that the Environment Protection Agency needs to come up with nationwide standards for dealing with carbon dioxide. Wired reports that the decision means lengthy and stricter...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Dell throws down the green gauntlet, again. Fulfills carbon-neutrality pledge
- When was the last time you heard about a high-tech company reaching a promised delivery date AHEAD of schedule? And, yet, that is exactly what Dell says it has done. Last fall, it pledged to achieve carbon-neutrality by the end of 2008. Well, it's just the start...
- Tags: dell computer corp., investment, finance, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-10
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
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