Blogs & Ecology

I’m not sure if Malhotra was referring to American Football or what the rest of the world calls football, but both stadiums are quite large. Wembley Stadium photo: Lawrie Cate.

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A major measurement used in figuring out the efficiency of a data center is PUE, or Power Usage Effectiveness. However, that measures the efficiency of data center cooling and power supply. What about the efficiency of the equipment humming away within the data center?

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How much energy does it really take to power your life? While many carbon calculators make attempts at the truth, a new online tool gives you a "personal energy audit." Does this calculator leapfrog the competition? You be the judge.

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The ninth wind farm in South Australia just opened on the Barunga Ranges near Snowtown. Its 47 turbines, installed by Trust Power of New Zealand, (who already operate that countries largest wind farm at Tararua), are said to have a capacity to deliver over 98MW. The company reckon this renewable energy should provide sufficient power for 70,000 Australian households.

home energy use in real time.

Toyota considers sprucing up the Prius with rooftop solar panels.

Can the carbon market help save Amazonia?

Greenbang rounds up their list of top ten weird green technologies.

Australia rates their most fuel efficient cars.

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Ever since being implemented in the early 1900’s, considerable controversy has surrounded the use of Daylight Saving Time. The practice benefits sports, retail (the extra daylight after the end of working hours means more shopping), and leisure activities reliant on sunlight. But it causes problems for farmers, who must work after morning dew dries, and the entertainment industry, which loses primetime viewers.

Often, really simple ideas work really well. The hot water bottle is a good example. They are back in style in Japan this winter, with promotion on the web and companies like Yutanpo Cuseberry offering attractive, colorful cotton covers with animal themes or vivid polkadot patterns, and ideas for your eco life......

It is no secret that Windows Vista has a whole lot of hate aimed at it by its (often unwilling) users. Even "I'm a Mac" commercials put it as the punchline. Windows 7 is Microsoft's answer to the demand for a better operating system, and there is an improvement that makes it way cooler than just a functional version of Vista.

We can’t drill and burn our way out of our economic and ecological ills, but we can invent and invest our way out, says the author of The Green Collar Economy and founder of Green for All. In part two of our conversation with Van Jones, we talk greentech, politics, “eco-apartheid,” and (of course) his vision for a green economy. “The green Keynesians are going to win,” says Van Jones.

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Well, the cheapest way is actually unplugging your devices. But if for some reason you abhor doing that and want the next cheapest way, the $5 Harriet Carter Wall Outlet Switch gives you your solution.

Or does it......

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One screen is tough enough to green up in our struggle to reduce energy consumption and e-waste in laptops as much as possible. But Fujitsu has added a small but energy- and materials-wasting feature to their LifeBook family. ...

NComputing, a California-based company, is creating a $70 networked computer that uses about 1 watt of power. Sound like a futuristic dream? Not to the 1 million people currently using their devices. ...

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We’ve been expecting it…the next generation of lighting is coming within a few months. And our next generation of lighting is going to look really weird.

Osram Sylvania and Philips, and many others are introducing LED bulbs to the US markets and across the world, but it isn’t likely that a quick switch to the ultra energy efficient technology will happen in a blink. ...