Greener Gadgets Conference, is “a chance for gadget geeks and electronic companies alike to think about the role of gadgets in our lives and how we can engage in more sustainable solutions for the future. Topics of discussion ranged from personal responsibility for energy consumption to how companies can track their carbon footprint to the [...]
Blackle.com (http://www.blackle.com), a mostly black webpage with a Google search box, is a project made by an Australian design firm, Heap Media (link: http://www.heapmedia.com/) that claims that displaying black pixels consumes less energy than displaying white pixels. The notion is that if we change our homepages to a mostly black page, we will be saving [...]
Wattzon released an API that allows you to get profile data and data from the Embodied Energy Database (EED, http://www.wattzon.com/stuff). I’m planning to use this as part of my final project for the class I’m taking on mashups.
Wattzon and Wesabe are working together. From the Wattzon blog post from 02/09/09: Wesabe is a free, online [...]
I’ve been thinking about how advances in technology and quick manufacturing means that we make a lot of electronic trash. Today’s awesome new iPhone is tomorrow’s trash; this computer, trash in 5 years; that plastic storage tub, trash in 9. And tomorrow’s trash is next year’s trash is next year’s trash is next year’s trash…
The [...]
http://learnonline.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/sustainability-considerations-relating-to-the-use-of-second-life-for-education/
by Leigh Blackall at http://learnonline.wordpress.com
This blog post reviews issues of sustainability in virtual worlds, specifically in Second Life. She discusses the energy and resource implications of supporting Second Life — the materials and energy used by individual actors as well as the infrastructure required to support the network. She further discusses behaviors and practices of [...]
http://www.betterplace.com/
Better Place, a company in the emerging alternative fuels industry, has an innovative idea. They will be the fueling network for a new line of electric cars manufactured by Nissan. Better Place will supply batteries, charging locations, battery switching stations, and the necessary software components.
The business model has similarities to the mobile phone industry model. [...]
http://www.replate.org/
From replate.org:
v. (re-plate): to place unwanted leftovers, typically in a doggie bag, on top of the nearest trash can so they don’t go to waste
This phenomenon is not uncommon in California (and perhaps, in other places where leftovers will not spoil in the outdoors and/or there are enough people looking for food in the trash [...]
I’m currently hosting this site and some others with Dreamhost. I chose them after looking for companies that are acting with an energy and environmental conscience. I rent a lot of webspace with them (more than i need alone) and have been very pleased with the service, reliability, and pricing. According to their website, they [...]