published March 31, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via: d70focus Lately, we just keep hearing more and more bad news about technology falling hopelessly under attack by dastardly bad-doers, otherwise known as cyber-hackers. With so much bad news finding its way into headlines, it makes some experts wonder just how safe a Smart Grid can ever be... ...
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published March 27, 2009 and has No Comments
Yesterday we covered the issue of wasted energy from PCs left on overnight. For those interested in finding out solutions to the problem , you might want to check out the upcoming Climate Savers webinar that will teach you the ins and outs of managing PC power usage....
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Climate Savers Summit Will Help You Learn PC Energy Efficiency
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published March 26, 2009 and has No Comments
Nearly two years ago, we reported that leaving PCs on overnight cost US businesses around $1.7 billion a year in wasted energy. However, a new report shows that figure jumping all the way up to $2.8 billion - even during a time when energy efficiency is on everyone's mind. What gives?...
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published March 20, 2009 and has No Comments
Image via Wikipedia Researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the University of East Anglia have determined that the Internet can be used for a whole lot of untapped information mining - including detecting possible environmental disasters....
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Internet Can Be Used to Detect Early Warnings of Eco Changes
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published March 19, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via eecue Strategic Oxygen and Cohn & Wolf have released a study that ranks which companies IT buyers view as the greenest. Over 3,500 CIOs, CXO, IT Managers and other decision makers from 11 countries were surveyed about 26 different brands to find out what businesses think about green IT products and marketing. Turns out, a company that ...
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published March 18, 2009 and has No Comments
Are you on Facebook and up for a little friendly competition? A Facebook App from Support.com just might help people save energy through PC settings and sharing information with their friends. It's part of a 30-day "Green Your PC" challenge. ...
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Facebook App Saves PC Energy...Maybe
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published March 18, 2009 and has No Comments
> (loband)- As the discussion over rural broadband heats up, there's sure to be plenty more discussion as to the efficacy of the proposed solutions. Here's one that novel - Loband. Put out by Aptivate, Loband is a free service that simplifies web pages in order to make them download faster over slow Internet connections. The simplified page viewed ...
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published March 16, 2009 and has No Comments
Green:Net 09 is rapidly approaching. The event, being held March 24 in San Francisco, focuses on how the tools of the Internet can be used to fight global climate change. It's something we talk about a lot here on TreeHugger, for obvious reasons, and we're excited to be attending the conference and sharing with you all the great happenings. ...
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published March 13, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Robert Scoble Microsoft is doing a lot to focus on emissions reductions. We talked last month about their push for energy efficiency of data centers , but the company is looking to do a whole lot more to make a tinier carbon footprint. ...
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Microsoft Aims At 30% Emissions Reduction by 2012
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published March 13, 2009 and has No Comments
The fact is, a conference on emerging technology didn't have to talk about green at all. There's a whole lot of cool techy stuff coming out that doesn't have much to do with being green. But the theme of green permeated the conference, which means sustainability is part of everything important happening in the technology world. And that's a ...
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