Tag: Google

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  Story of Send Shows You How Google Emails Get From Here to There

  How does your Gmail get from one place to another? And how energy efficient is the process? Google has created an animation to explain some details.

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  Species and Habitats Being Saved by Google Earth

  Google Earth has been used to discover and protect a range of species and habitats, proving that this technology isn't just pretty pictures, but a real tool for conservation.

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  Survey: Are Google Glasses Vaporware, Next Big Thing, Helpful Green Gadget, or Accident Waiting to Happen?

  Or, are they just the most antisocial, annoying idea ever proposed since the bluetooth headset?

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  Google Glasses: Vaporware, Next Big Thing, Helpful Green Gadget, or Accident Waiting to Happen?

  The internet is buzzing with the news that a new concept from Google, augmented reality glasses, is in the works. But will this new technology help us or hinder us?

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  Google Lists The Top Green Search Trends of 2011

  Wondering what people were most interested in learning about energy and the environment this last year? Google tells us the most popular search topics..

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  TreeHugger Trivia: Google's Carbon Footprint and Electricity Consumption

  We all know Google as the giant Internet company that serves the world billions of pages of search results, YouTube videos, email messages, and lots more, every single day around the globe. All

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  Green Commuting at Google! (Video)

  They Even have a Kayak Commuter! Most of you probably know by now that Google isn't your average mega-corp. They like to do things their own way, and that includes getting their employees to work. The video above shows how they seem to encourage any way

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  Google and NASA Team Up for a Green Flight Challenge with $1.65M Prize

  Air travel may be time efficient, but based on planes' carbon emissions, it's not good for the environment. And while purchasing carbon offsets is a good move, it's just a drop in the bucket. Tha's

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  Google Foundation Says Clean Energy Innovation Could Have Huge Payoff

  Image: Screen grab of Google website Google Crunches the Numbers on Energy Google is a company that tends to put its money where its mouth is: They invested around half a billion dollars in various clean energy projects, some at the commercial

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  Google Earth Reveals How Predator-Prey Behavior In Coral Reefs Can Be Seen From Space

  The image you see above was taken with

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  Google Maps Now Offers Real-Time Transit Updates

  Photo: Google Only Available in Some Cities for Now... But More to Come Google's been keeping busy lately, keeping many irons in the fire. I just wrote about their $280M investment in residential solar, but they're also trying to make mass transit more

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  Google Invests $280M in Residential Solar Power!

  Photo: GoogleIn Partnership with SolarCity, They Want to Put Solar Panels on Your RoofGoogle has just announced its biggest clean energy investment yet, a $280M fund to finance residential solar panel installations across the US. They are partnering

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  Google Earth, Columbia University Reveal World's Most Comprehensive Seafloor Map (Video)

  Google and Columbia University wanted to celebrate World Oceans Day in style yesterday, so they revealed what is the largest map of Earth's seafloor to date. While the collaboration more than doubled what's available and mapped

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  Google Invests $55 Million in California's Massive 1,550MW Alta Wind Farm

  Feeling Lucky? Your Searches Help Pay for ThisGoogle's not stopping its massive clean energy investments. After $168M in solar thermal and $100M in wind power, they're investing in... more wind power! They're providing $55 million

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  Google Earth Animation Reveals Sumatran Tiger Habitat Slated for Logging (Video)

  Last week we brought you video from WWF of some incredibly cute, and unfortunately endangered tiger cubs playing in the forest of Bukit Tigapuluh, or "Thirty Hills," which is under pressure from paper and timber

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  Hands-on With Google's Android Open Accessory Development Kit

  Google has been hatching a new project that connects household accessories such as lightbulbs to the Android platform, which makes it easier for homeowners to keep tabs on their energy consumption and control their home from afar. Google has picked

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  Google Earth Maps Out At-Risk Populations Around Nuclear Power Plants

  If a nuclear power plant in the US were to have issues, who would be affected? In a partnership between Nature News and Columbia University, we now have a Google map that tells us the population sizes

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  Google Invests $100m in What Will be the World's Largest Wind Farm (845 MW)

  Photo: Wikipedia, CCSearching for Clean PowerGoogle has been rapidly expanding its clean energy portfolio lately. Just last week we reported the $168m investment in solar thermal, and before that there were multiple investments in wind power,