Things Are Good

Two interesting takes on software popped up on the interweb recently. I find it interesting the potential that using software has for reducing pollution thanks to digitization.
First, we have a blogger arguing that iTunes saves the environment because less people are buying CDs (and the CDs don’t need to be shipped).
“Steve Jobs also announced [...]

Can’t sleep? Take heart in a recent study of insomnia: researchers at Actelion Pharmaceuticals found that blocking brain receptors to the blood peptide orexin promoted sleep in rats, dogs and humans, according to a paper in the online issue of Nature Medicine.
In an ironic link, orexin is absent in the brains of people who [...]

The Green Advisory Service has set out to help PC firms do less environmental damage. In the UK a PC left on overnight can cost upwards of £53 in electricity. The cost of running a PC is not cheap for the pocketbook or for the environment and this is what the Green Advisory Service will [...]

IceCycle is a neat idea of storing energy at off peak times to use during peak periods. I believe Energy storage technology goes hand in hand with renewables. To bad nobody has a lead on storing heat energy. I would love a device that cools my house in the summer and stores that heat for [...]

An artist as made a really cool paint scheme in a room, it’s like living in a cartoon.
I would love to live in a house painted like this!
More images and a brief description can be found here.

Air travel is very, very, very bad for the environment. So why am I bringing it up on this website? (yeah for rhetorical questions!)
A company is proposing to take old airplane fuselages and convert them into monorails. This just sounds cool! And it is! Energy for the trains comes from solar power, wind power, and [...]