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Google Launches New Transit Layer to Maps
Google has added a Transit Layer to their maps, and 50 cities are already easier to navigate via public transportation because of it.
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Seven Grams CO2 per Google Search? Not True or Relevant, but Fun To Repeat
Many of us will remember the whole seven grams of CO2, kettle of tea thing with Google, and guess that it probably isn't quite right; the dude that supposedly said it now supposedly denies it, apparently blaming it on
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A Google or a Cup of Tea: Which Warms the Globe the Most?
Note: please see the correction at the end of this article.
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Data Centers Will Run on Green Energy, But Boot the Little Guys Out
Data Centers are greening up right and left thanks to the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses mentality of the IT industry.
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7 Ways To Save the World with Google Earth on Your iPhone
Google Earth is an excellent tool for environmental activism. And of course it was only a matter of time before they developed an app for the iPhone – putting the tool right in your pocket (if you have an iPhone, of course).
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Bioneers 2008: Using Google Earth for Environmental Activism
We've seen that with Google Earth you kind of hold the world in the palm of your hand. TreeHugger has posted on some really cool things the software can do, such as illustrate deforestation and our renewable energy potential. But there is more to it
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Green iGoogle, Healthy Baked Fries and How to Ace Job Interviews
:: Embrace being an eco-geek and maximize your iGoogle application.
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Clean Energy 2030: Google's Green Energy Future Revealed -- It'll Save U.S. $1 Trillion
T. Boone Pickens has the Pickens Plan; Al Gore has his 'Generational Challenge to America'; both John McCain's and Barack Obama's renewable energy plans have been repeatedly articulated. Now Google has gotten into the energy policy act and
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Google & GE Joining Forces to Bring You Geothermal Power, Plug-In Vehicles and a Smart Grid
Expanding and improving the United States’ electrical transmission grid would be a major building block in creating an electrical supply that is reliable, efficient
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5 Ways Geothermal Power is Heating Up Around the World
Last week when the US Geothermal Energy Association released it's biannual report which stated that geothermal power had grown by 20% so far this year , it cemented what TreeHugger said over a year ago: Geothermal power is the poor
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Google Gets Behind Geothermal, Invests Over $10 Million in Research
Geothermal energy is probably the greatest potential renewable energy source with the least amount of public awareness. It certainly spends much less time in the public gaze than wind, solar or biofuels. Recently the US Department of Energy announced
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Google PageRank Could Help Keep Ecosystems Running
As it turns out, Google's search engine is good for more than just looking up your nearest library or favorite local grocery store -- try helping ecosystems run. According to Stefano Allesina of UCSB's National Center for
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Walking Directions Now Available On Google Maps
Got directions but want to walk the distance instead of driving? Well, we're glad to see that Google Maps has now added a new walking option for directions, thanks to popular demand. Similar to getting driving directions, after entering your origin
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Google Invests in Aptera Motors and Lithium-Ion Battery Maker AtaCell
Google's RechargeIT Invests $2.75 Million Google's philanthropic arm, via its RechargeIT program, has just bet $2.75 million on two companies trying to make plug-in hybrids and electric cars a reality: Aptera Motors, maker of the three-wheeled
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Google News For A Better World
So much good green news in this vision of a perfect Google News"- "
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Ginger Strand on Inventing Niagara and the Excesses of Industrial Development
Many of you took issue (not without reason) with a post I wrote a few months ago in which I cited an article written by author Ginger Strand, entitled "Keyword: Evil" (a dig at Google's mantra, "Don't be evil"), to criticize Google's love of cheap
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Ecoogler, the Ecological Search Engine, Has Difficulties Earning People's Trust
Ecoogler, the ecological search engine, has created quite a bit of confusion online about whether it is real and whether Google is behind it or not. With Ecoogler, you can basically google the same as with Google or any other search engine, but in
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Google Goes Black For Earth Hour
Google raised energy awareness to the googleth degree today by changing their home page from white to black in support of the earth hour campaign; their brief statement is well worth reading. While the Googlers still don't think a permanent switch
