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Top 10 Tech Stories This Week: Mapping deforestation, jumping beans inspiring robots, appreciating low-tech living, and more!
The hottest stories in Technology from the last week. Catch up quick!
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Google Apps Cloud May Be Greenish, But There's Room for Improvement
Tom Raftery of GreenMonk takes a look at the recent claim by Google that switching to Google Apps is a big energy saver, and comes to some interesting conclusions.
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Yahoo Email Users Have Higher Energy Bills Than Gmail Users
YahooMail users consume 11 percent more energy per year than Gmail users.
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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
