Google Your Power Usage
From Google’s Energy Information: “At Google we’re committed to helping enable a future where access to personal energy information helps everyone make smarter energy choices. To get started, we’re working on a tool called Google PowerMeter which will show consumers their electricity consumption in near real-time in a secure iGoogle Gadget. We think PowerMeter will [...]
What’s Fluid Imagination’s Carbon Footprint?
From Slate’s Green my blog.: “Jonathan Koomey…has now estimated how much energy it takes for one gigabyte of data to travel over the Internet….on average, between nine and 16 kWh of electricity to transmit a gigabyte of data. What does that mean for your personal blog? In terms of direct pollution, the impact is likely [...]
Kennedy on Palin
From Robert Kennedy’s Palin’s Big Oil infatuation: “Palin’s enthusiastic embrace of Big Oil’s agenda (if not always Big Oil itself) has been the platform of her hasty rise in Alaskan politics. In that sense she is as much a product of the oil industry as the current president and his vice president. Palin, whose husband [...]
Wiki Green Grist | Grist Feature | 19 Sep 2008
From Grist’s An interview with Wikia’s Jimmy Wales about his new green venture: “Wikia, Inc., (not to be confused with Wikipedia, a project of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation), announced this month that it’s launching Wikia Green, which Wales (co-founder of Wikipedia) describes as ‘an encyclopedia from a green perspective.’ Built on a wiki platform, which [...]
Remember: R&D Is Figured In BEFORE Profits Are Disseminated
From Wired News’s book review, In Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman Calls for a Green Energy Revolution: “The last big innovation in energy production, [Friedman] observes, was nuclear power half a century ago; since then the field has stagnated. ‘Do you know any industry in this country whose last major breakthrough was in 1955?’ [...]
An Interview With Jesse
From ASSHE’s Interview Series: Jesse Pyles, Service-Learning & Sustainability Coordinator at Green Mountain College: “In this second installment of the AASHE Interview Series we have the opportunity to hear from Jesse Pyles, the Service-Learning & Sustainability Coordinator at Green Mountain College.” [FYI: You all have seen Jesse making comments on Fluid Imagination, but if you [...]
Are Americans Dumb? Or Is There Something Else At Play Here?
From National Journal’s Waning Warming Debate: “According to a survey from ABC News, Planet Green and Stanford University, fewer than half — 47 percent — of Americans consider global warming an important issue to them personally, down from 52 percent in April 2007. Although a vast majority still think the planet is warming — 8 [...]
One More Reason BlockBuster Sucks
From Slate’s Is your Netflix queue destroying the environment?: “Renting a DVD by mail is probably a greener choice than going to your local video store. To understand why, let’s chart the journey a DVD takes before it arrives in your living room.”
Hi-Def Global Warming
From the Guardian’s Climate risk from flat-screen TVs: “The rising demand for flat-screen televisions could have a greater impact on global warming than the world’s largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental scientist warned yesterday. Manufacturers use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make the televisions, and…as a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride [...]
Not All Good News is Good News
From Slate’’s Does growing sea ice in Antarctica bode well for the future?: “We’ve all heard that the Arctic ice is disappearing, surefire proof that global warming will kill us all. But isn’t it also true that Antarctica’s ice is growing by leaps and bounds? Doesn’t that mean we’re getting into a lather over nothing?” [...]
