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Google Streetview Catches Alleged Tree Killers on Camera
A resident in Canada illegally removed 23 cypress and evergreen trees from her property. While neighbors alerted the police, it was the Google Streetview camera that managed to capture the incident on camera. Is this Google avenging the
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Google Launches Deforestation Tool to Make Trees More Valuable Alive Than Dead
Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, has launched a new way to monitor deforestation.
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Jeff Bezos Wants to Fly You to Space and 10 More Stories From Fast Company
We still haven't found a better way to sleep off a turkey feast than beach ourselves in front of the boob tube. But that doesn't mean there aren't better
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Top Stories from Tonic: Holiday Feasts, Gifts and Music to Watch For!
"Holiday Gift Lists -- The Best of the Web," a collection of short lists with your best "good" presents to keep your loved ones from rolling their eyes this gift-giving season.
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Google's PowerMeter Hits the UK. All Part of the Plan for Smart Grid Global Domination.
Google's home energy dashboard PowerMeter has just hit the UK, becoming available for residents to watch every last watt and cut back where possible. Just as in the US, consumers need to be hooked up with a utility that
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Google/Guggenheim Shed Competition Winners Announced
The results are in from the Design It competition, a Google mashup with the Guggenheim where 600 designers used Sketchup to design a shelter, no more that 100 square feet in floor area that provided a space for one person to study and sleep. There was
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The Best of Fast Company: Ethical Halloween Candy, Bunnies for Biofuel, and a Twitter Taxi
This week at Fast Company, we looked at the most sustainable Halloween candy, whether it makes sense to burn rabbits for biofuel, Green Tomato Cars' Twitter taxi service, and 6 ways Google has greened its main campus.
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Google Maps Adding More Green Locations, Gets More Cyclist-Friendly (Video)
Google makes no qualms about wanting to be ever more green when it comes to their maps. The company has been building up the features shown off in Google Maps, and has been working hard on adding in green park spaces, water bodies, and even more
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6 Ways Bar Codes Make Us Green, And One Barcode Scanner That Can't
Today is the 57th anniversary of the invention of the barcode. It's an important invention (even Google changed its logo in celebration) that has changed how we shop, how we ship things, how we organize things, and
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Google's PowerMeter Partners With The Energy Detective For First Gadget
Google's energy monitoring dashboard, PowerMeter, moved onto the scene back in February. In May, they announced their first set of utility partners who were to take on the dashboard as something to offer to the utilities' customers.
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Google Maps Earth's Carbon Cycle
Google Earth has a new application that shows carbon dioxide in different layers of the earth's atmosphere. Tyler Erickson, a geospatial researcher at the Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor, responded to a competition call
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Seen Google's Crop Circle Logo? Nature Makes a Beautiful Canvas (slideshow)
Click the image above to see our crop circles slideshow. Maybe No UFOs or Aliens, But Nice Art Nonetheless Hundreds of millions of people have seen Google's mysterious "crop circle" logo today, and this made us think about crop circles. What are they if
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Google's Custom Solar Technology Will Reduce Costs by 60%
Google's developing new solar tech that will drop the cost from 18 cents a kW-h to just under 5. At least, it's hoping to.
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New Study Finds Kindle Greener Than the Printed Word
(Image: Geekbrief)The battle, no doubt, will rage on for some time over which is greener, e-books or the printed stuff. A new item of evidence, however, has been submitted: a report by the Cleantech Group has concluded that in a spine-to-spine lifecycle
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Google Tracking Traffic with Maps and Your Smart Phone
One way to drastically reduce pollution from vehicles is to drastically reduce traffic jams. Google is hoping to help accomplish this by getting you and your smart phone to update Google Maps with traffic information.
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Barnes & Noble Puts e-Books on iPhones, and Exclusive New Reader
Move over Amazon. More than 700,00 titles are now available through Barnes & Noble, and they'll be readable not only on devices such as the iPhone, but the book seller wants to elbow in even more on the digital books industry and so has an exclusive
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Google Data Center Uses No Chillers - Will It Soon Follow the Moon?
A Google data center in Belgium is taking a cool, new approach to keeping from over-heating on hot days. The facility has no electricity-sucking chillers to support its cooling systems, relying instead on air from outside. Google anticipates this
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Google Looking to Be the Next e-Book Outlet
We're often talking about the energy efficiency of e-readers. And e-books are becoming ever more the medium of choice for fast and easy access to materials. Google sees this, and wants in on the market. However, their set-up may take the energy
