Tag: Environmental Footprint - Page 6
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Training to Swim the English Channel: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Swimmer
Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds
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Your Toaster Costs How Much to Run?? Interactive Graphic Gives Run-Down On Worst-Offender Gadgets
GE and Pentagram's Lisa Strausfeld have come up with a fantastic way to visualize how good or bad our appliances and devices are when it comes to using up our home's energy. We know that homes suck up about 20% of
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Green:Net 2010 - Turning Atoms into Bits: Using Computing to Cut Carbon and Stuff From Our Lives
Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch Green:Net is all about how technology is benefiting our struggle towards sustainable living. But rather than a festival of green gadgets or services that do little more than help one monitor how much juice their gadgets consume,
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Green:Net 2010 - Greenpeace Ranks Cisco As Leader in Green IT, Scolds Entire Industry
Greenpeace is all about making companies who talk the talk actually walk the walk, especially when it comes to technology. The activist organization is well known for flinging egg on the face of electronics manufacturers who say
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More Expensive Water? Experts Say a Price Hike Is a Must
Water is one of the most undervalued resources we have. Especially in the developed world, we pay a fraction of the true cost of water in order to have the required resource run from our taps. But really, a barrel of
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A Square Coke Bottle = Smaller Environmental Footprint, by Andrew Kim
Maybe not as radical as square watermelons, but still quite progressive is Andrew Kim's square Coke bottle design. It definitely raised the question whether or not all bottles and containers should be square from an environmental point of view. Of
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Grist Lists Hipster Habits That Annoy the Earth
Sure, youthful hipsters are characterized by their thrift shopping, bike riding, ways—but that does not mean the trendy lifestyle is good for the planet. Grist takes a look at some popular trends that are
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IBM To Suppliers: Track Your Footprint, Make Your Progress Public
We're seeing it more and more with big companies - they're telling their suppliers to start tracking their footprints. It's part of a must-have business strategy for companies facing an economy that more and more
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The Most Eco-Friendly Way to Spend Eternity?
At the end of an average lifetime, most folks in the developed world are responsible for producing quite a bit of waste and pollution, the problems from which many of the planet's
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Citi Listed As 'America's Greenest Bank' Thanks to IT Upgrades
Earlier this week we talked about a Greenpeace report showing how IT is responsible for a vast amount of carbon emissions, and yet is also a tool capable of greatly reducing the carbon footprint of companies. Case in point is a
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Training to Swim the English Channel: Greening My Food
Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds
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100% Post Consumer Waste Business Cards From Moo
Fans of printing company MOO--known for allowing customers to print a different photo on every card--were happy to learn that the company was
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Petition to Eliminate Tax On IT Repairs Takes Aim at Cutting Carbon and e-Waste
It's no revelation that repairing and maintaining computer equipment reduces overall emissions. Redemtech has shown us first hand how redepolying old IT equipment, rather than replacing it, can boost bottom lines, reduce
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Annie Leonard Releases New Video on Story of Bottled Water for World Water Day
Today is World Water Day - a day to celebrate and become ever more savvy about this incredibly finite resource that we all have to have access to in order to survive. Annie Leonard and crew are also on their game today,
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Google PowerMeter's Adds Info Sharing - Is it Just What We Need, or TMI?
A significant component to making home energy monitoring really catch on is the idea of making it into a competition. Manufacturers of dashboards and devices for power monitors note that when people can see not only their
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5 Crazy But Clever Places to Put Data Centers
Data centers suck up a lot of energy, so it pays to put servers in places that can keep them cool and running efficiently. While some companies are choosing to make what they have work better, others are thinking
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SolidWorks Sustainability Software Helps Designers Make The Greenest Products (Video)
How can designers make products that they can be sure have a minimized environmental footprint? The software they use during the design phase can make all the difference. A new tool, called SolidWorks Sustainability software shows
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Cisco Saving $24 Million With Packaging Diet
We're fast to post about packaging failures, which are all too common. But happily, we sometimes get to post about packaging brilliance. Cisco is giving us just such an opportunity. The company has taken up a pilot
