Tag: Computing - Page 12
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Little Green Box: An Energy-Efficient Computer from Design Hara
You're on your computer right now (or maybe your phone); either way, reading TreeHugger is using hard-won electricity, and your device of choice will someday (probably soon) be scrapped or traded in for a better one. And who could blame you? But as
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300 Million-Year-Old Limestone Houses Ultra Efficient Data Center 22 Stories Underground
In western Pennsylvania, a data center is using the benefits of a very cool location. It's Iron Mountain's man-made caverns in
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Black Friday Found To Be 50 Times More Carbon Intensive Than Cyber Monday
In a new report by MindClick SGM and GigaOm, Black Friday is found to be shockingly more carbon intensive than Cyber Monday - 50 times more intensive. When TreeHugger readers began the debate this year about which was greener, the
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Meet the World's Most Powerful Weather Supercomputer
A new supercomputer capable of performing highly-detailed climate calculations has been unveiled by the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) in Hamburg. Hailed as the world's most powerful forecasting tool, the computer, dubbed
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Why Data Center Efficiency Matters - Because the Internet is THIS BIG
The latest report to come out about our use of the internet and digital media to consume information is mind-blowing. University of California, San Diego reports that each day, Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information. That adds up
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World's First Green Search Engine Launches Tree-Planting Email Service
Image via Treehoo Treehoo already made it onto one of our lists of top green search engines last year, but this latest move might bump it farther up to the top. The tree-minded search engine has added an email service with the plan to put half of the
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World's Greenest Data Center? IBM and Syracuse Complete Their Game-Changing Project (Video)
Back at the end of May, we wrote about IBM and Syracuse working on a data center that would use 50% less energy than standard data centers. This week they announced the project is completed, finishing up in a mere 6 months a $12.4
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PowerTutor - An App for Greening Your Smart Phone Apps
As we mentioned earlier in the summer, we have green apps up the wazoo that work to help us track our carbon footprints, plant trees, shop for eco-friendly products, use public transportation more effectively....but
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Could Ecosia Be the World's Greenest Search Engine? (Video)
There are gads of green search engines - Green Maven, EcoSearch, Good Tree, Truevert, Ecocho... - and they all have their special qualities that make them eco-friendly. Some focus on bringing up green content in your search, some
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Poor Jim Kunstler Even Gets Attacked By Captchas
A lot of people think James Howard Kunstler is a bit dire, and he takes a fair amount of abuse in comments. But who would have thought that the Captchas share the views of the commenters? That they have opinions about people like the controversial
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After California Nixes Energy-Sucking TVs, What's Next in the Crosshairs?
California recently passed a ban on the most energy sucking TVs, pulling them from store shelves in an effort to decrease how much electricity goes to the devices. It is expected to save enough energy to power 1 million
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TED Talk - 13th Century Astrolabe, the First Popular Computers
Sometimes event the newest gadgets are overshadowed by really, really old gadgets. Ancient technology is amazing, and Tom Wujec shows the astrolabe, one of the earliest computing gadgets. With the capability of telling time, mapping the
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Dell Ships Netbooks in Bamboo Packaging
Image: Dell Competition to be and look green in the personal computing industry is reaching a fever pitch. Debates rage over which companies are raising the bar and which are baiting and switching. Packaging, to be sure, is a big piece of the puzzle.
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Cleantech Open 09 - EcoFactor is NOT a Smart Thermostat - It's Better.
EcoFactor is easy to mistake for a smart thermostat, since that's what the user sees. But really, it's not a smart thermostat at all. As Scott Hublou, a co-founder of EcoFactor and its senior vice president for products, puts
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SF Green Festival 09 - Canvas Dreams Offers Honestly Green Web Hosting Services
There are a lot of options out there for green web hosting. In an effort to green up an energy and resource intensive industry, some use carbon offsets, some sign up for green power plans with power companies. Canvas Dreams, however, is one web hosting
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Best of Show For Green Booth Design: Autodesk
Autodesk says it is "committed to sustainable design" and they certainly tried to show it in their booth, which is made entirely of recycled cardboard, sustainably harvested BC fir, recycled cardboard sonotubes, all treated with a 100% biodegradable
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Tech Chest Turns Luggage Into Hide-Away Computer Case
We love finding computers in unique spaces that make them more of an heirloom item than a disposable tool. And here is one where you'll have no idea a computer is inside until you pop it open. One part neat upcycling, and
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Seattle City Light Is First Utility to Offer Microsoft Hohm to Customers
Microsoft's Sustainability blog announced Hohm's first utility partner - Seattle City Light. Customers of the utility will start to be able to use Hohm to track their energy usage and get rolling on conserving electricity. Microsoft Hohm is an
