Things Are Good

The internet is quite kind for the environment, which I guess is why good news appears on this website and not on paper handed out on city streets. Ecogeek has a post about a published report on how much carbon is saved by using the internet.
E-Commerce will reduce emissions by 200 M tons
-Telecommuting will prevent [...]

There’s a new plan being hatched in North Africa that will see solar panels placed all along the region. The energy produced by the solar farms would then be transfered to Europe using undersea power cables.
Billions of watts of power could be generated this way, enough to provide Europe with a sixth of [...]