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- Overachiever: Sun surpasses greenhouse gas reduction goals
- Bully for Sun Microsystems. The company's U.S. operations have actually already overshot the 20 percent reduction goal originally set for 2012 under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program. Yes, that's right folks, a tech company has done something earlier than expected! The company reports this...
- Tags: Emission, Sun Microsystems Inc., Greenhouse Gas, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The GEIA-ACCENT Web Portal on Emissions
- GEIA, the Global Emissions Inventory Activity, is an integrating project of the AIMES (Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System) project of the International Geosphere Biosphere IGBP program. Over the past four years, GEIA has established strong links with the ACCENT European network that coordinates the European activities on...
- Tags: Emission, University Of Colorado, Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-10-05
- Not so idle: HP earns green transport logo for business products
- It takes more than better attention to energy-efficiency or attention to materials to classify some gadget or another as green tech. That's why Hewlett-Packard has made a concerted effort to have its products vetted as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay logo program, which focuses on the fuel consumption...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Emission, Product, Document Management, Supply Chain, Transportation, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Cautionary tale: carbon trading and carping loggers
- In New Zealand an official carbon-trading scheme is not running smoothly. It's perhaps a cautonary tale for other countries or regions looking at carbon-trading as a way to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. New Zealand's a signator to the Kyoto Protocol which led that nationto try carbon-trading...
- Tags: Emission, Greenhouse Gas, New Zealand, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Earth Day – have a gas
- Sample Vulcan map from Purdue & NASA. The folks at Purdue University have come up with a way for us to watch the CO2 emissions across the U.S. Just in time for Earth Day, 2008. It's called Vulcan, and it's going to...
- Tags: Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Germany uses n-word to describe American policies
- Wow, when you get blasted by a German government minister, they get...well, anthropomorphic in their insults. The German official in question called American policies on global warming "Neanderthal." And Germans know their Neanderthals, that country was host of the first-known Neanderthal bones ever found. I...
- Tags: Germany, Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-19
- China becoming gold medalist in CO2 emissions
- If you believe global warming's a crock, this blog's worth another good belly laugh. If you suspect that CO2 and other greenhouse gases could be altering the climate, then this there's more evidence that the U.S. and China are plunging us into a climatic sauna. A...
- Tags: China, Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- Windows, Linux, and the Kyoto Climate Protocols
- I read a blog, yesterday, by one Randall Hoven, titled "Kyoto Schmyoto" which started with this: One would think that countries that committed to the Kyoto treaty are doing a better job of curtailing carbon emissions. One would also think that...
- Tags: Emission, Treaty, Climate, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- All things Kyoto, now they tell us
- So President George W. Bush has been right all along. There, I said it. A commentary on the Nature website has sparked discussion because it basically says the Kyoto Protocol is not the way to handle greenhouse gas emissions. While applauding the goal of curbing the emissions,...
- Tags: Emission, Greenhouse Gas, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Fuming over fumes: Bush's E.P.A. versus California, New York and Co.
- Of course, the current version of the "Environmental Protection Agency" has been loath to move toward tougher emission standards for car and trucks in the U.S. Two years California movced to put in place tougher standards for car in that state, but the E.P.A. has not granted a waiver....
- Tags: Emission, California, Greenhouse Gas, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Exhausting question: my gas, or yours?
- A U.N. official has set off a little political warming trend by by himself: think of it as climate change in the blogosphere. He suggested rich countries have done a lot to cut gree nhouse gas emissions at home, so they should go on a sort of economic missionary...
- Tags: Emission, Greenhouse Gas, Folk, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
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- Getting greener at home could be a gas
- Courtesy: Lehr The folks at Lehr say they have a better idea for many of your home machines: lawn mower, wire trimmer (turns out "weed whacker" is a copyrighted name for Kenmore;s wire trimmer), leaf blowers, etc. Lehr is going to be selling those...
- Tags: Gasoline, Lehr, Bernardo Herzer, Propane, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Wave of the future for alternative energy?
- Courtesy: Pelamis Get out your atlas, see if you can find Agucadoura, Portugal. Just three miles offshore there, these big metallic sea snakes are bobbing in the ever-restless waves of the North Atlantic. And they're generating electricity for over a thousand homes on...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Pelamis Wave Power, Venture Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, Finance, Financing Startups, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-handCleanTech and Economic IncentivesGiven what we now know about how modern electronic manufacturing and scavenging works (see the new 60 Minutes report tracking "E-Waste" from Denver got China), and how our current environmental regulations are set up on manufacturing processes,...
- Tags: Regulations, Obama, environmental regulation, manufacturing, regulation
- Discussion threads 2008-11-08
- Optical fibers with a silicon core?
- Optical fibers with a silicon core?And optical fibre is made of...Isn't optical fibre made from glass or plastic anyhow. And what is glass made of? ;)Hint: Not pure silicon...More often than not it's made of silcon dioxide (SiO2) or Silica and other ingredients that change the properties of the resulting...
- Tags: Network technology, Fiber optics, Optical networking, SiO2, silicon core, cable, optical fiber, fiber
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?So what is the source of the issue?It's one thing to make such a spectacular claim it's another to provide some real evidence. Why would they be emitting a toxic smell? Might this be the case with other computers too?No wonder MBP fans love...
- Tags: benzene, MAC Pro, Apple Inc., toxin
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Video: Does Green IT matter for business?
- Video: Does Green IT matter for business?My tip? Follow the moneyIMHO, being "green" has become little more than a shakedown that industry is happy to play along with. After all, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all could get laws passed that mandated that our customers purchase more...
- Tags: Does Green IT, carbon dioxide, video
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gas
- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gasJust drive a low emission car insteadInstead of trying to join the queue for a Hybrid, just choose a low emission car from the normal range.A Honda Fit or other small rentals will give up to 50mpg, and have A/C which...
- Tags: car
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Ultrasone HFI-2200 ULE
- The Ultrasone HFI-2200 headphones have a dark brown outer casing, while the earpads are colored with a golden-brown, velvet-covered cushion. At the top of the headband is another cushion that matches the same color combination. We think the look is a welcome alternative to the usual drab headphone color schemes....
- Tags: earcup, cord, HFI-2200, headphone, Ultrasone HFI-2200, HFI-2200s
- Product reviews 2008-07-29
- Ultrasone HFI-580
- Unlike the Ultrasone HFI-2200s, which allow sound to be projected from the actual ear cups, the Ultrasone HFI-580s are a "closed-back" pair of headphones, so they hush outside noise, which prevents the headphone's sound from being heard by other people around you. That's good, except that a lot of closed-back...
- Tags: HFI-2200, headphone, Ultrasone HFI-580s, Ultrasone HFI-580
- Product reviews 2008-07-28
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