Archive for October, 2011

Oct 30 2011

Facebook: ‘Open hardware’ integral to green IT infrastructure

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

Open Compute Project strives to model itself after the Apache Software Foundation, with technical contributions vetted by community members.



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Oct 28 2011

Trash your iPhone (Green Gadget of the Week)

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

New eco-friendly case for iPhone 4 models is made out of rice husk by-products and recycled post-consumer plastics.



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Oct 28 2011

It’s almost Halloween, time to recycle your old Christmas lights

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

HolidayLEDs, which makes energy-efficient LED Christmas light strands, has started its annual incandescent light recycling program.
Between now and the end of the year, you can mail in your jumbles of old light strands for responsible disposal (just the light set, please, not all the old packaging). In exchange, you will receive a 25 percent coupon [...]



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Oct 26 2011

Iconic yellow schoolbus gets electrified

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

The Newton eTrans can carry 42 passengers up to 120 miles on a single charge at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour.



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Oct 25 2011

Climate-change skeptic turns skeptical about the skeptics

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

A respected physicist and climate-change skeptic from the University of California, Berkeley, set out to prove global warming theorists wrong and winds up verifying the warming trend.



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Oct 25 2011

SecureWaters technology acts as water supply sentinel

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

Using readings from sensor nets, AquaSentinel monitors the health of surface algae to detect chemical toxics in surface water.



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Oct 24 2011

Got carbon management? Maybe you should rethink that

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

The North American appetite for carbon management software and services will reach $1.1 billion by 2013, the world’s largest single market.



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Oct 21 2011

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Oct 21 2011

Software utility extends battery life of Windows 7 systems

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

TuneUp Utilities 2012 conserves battery life by shutting off hardware components and applications that aren’t active.



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Oct 20 2011

North American wind generation capacity seen doubling

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized

The United States is already the largest producer of wind-generated electricity, but it is just 2.3 percent of the total power created across the country.



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