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How you can help reduce the footprint of the Web
Browsing the internet contributes to global warming by generating extra greenhouse gases – but could the web be made greener?
Jonathan Leake talks to Dr Alex Wissner-Gross a physicist from Harvard University
So it’s Sunday morning, you’re sitting down at… read more
Global Wind Power Capacity Reaches 100,000 Megawat..
At its current growth rate, global installed wind power capacity will top 100,000 megawatts in March 2008. In 2007, wind power capacity increased by a record-breaking 20,000 megawatts, bringing the world total to 94,100 megawatts—enough to satisfy the residential electricity… read more
Portable light
Lighting Up Mexico’s Sierra Madre
and other places
Like many parts of the world that do not have access to electricity, it is considered economically unfeasible and ecologically unsound to construct a centralized electrical grid in the Sierra Madre
The… read more
Earth Day 2058: A Vision
Here is an educated guess at what the world might look like by Earth Day 2058 — not a prediction or a warning, but more of a natural extension of current trends, some of them hopeful ones:
The hot job… read more
Innovative tower
Innovative Tower To Feature Atrium Of Wind Turbines
The “Clean Technology Tower” is a highly efficient building which will be constructed in Chicago. The tower will have wind turbines positioned at the corners of the building, to capture wind at… read more
