Environment

Bamboo Ecobook

- Adam Clare 1 Comment

Bambooing
Asus is making a line of notebooks that are modular and easily upgradable for the end user. One of these easy modifications that can be done is making the notebook an ecobook by having bamboo casing and all the plastic made of recycled materials!

There won’t be many who find issue with the choice of material used in the EcoBook. Bamboo wood is easily replenished (it grows infamously fast) and yet when polished up it creates a luxurious wood veneer that is also biodegradable.

But the goodness of ASUS new ECOBOOK doesn’t stop there. the plastics chosen to manufacture the EcoBook come from recyclable raw materials and are numbered to facilitate recycling when the product reaches the end of its life cycle.

Ontario Bans Bad Blubs

- Adam Clare 1 Comment

Canada’s largest province has decided to ban old light-bulbs. Entire nations have already done this, at least Australia and Venezuela have, and it is good to see other regions following in their lead.

“It’s the equivalent of taking 250,000 cars off the road,” said Environment Minister Laurel Broten.

Sun is the Greenest

- Adam Clare 1 Comment

Computers burn a lot of energy on our planet, in fact it’s 4-5% of total world power consumption. Well, Sun Microsystems knows this and is doing something about it. I wonder how they stack up to sustainable linux, black google, but, they are better than windows and Apple.

For him, this is just good business. “Energy responsibility is about to become a society-wide business imperative,” he says. “All my projects have measurable business benefit. You might say the ‘eco’ in my title is for economics as well as ecology.”

“We’re not only part of the solution but also part of the problem,” he confesses. What he means is that computers are egregious energy hogs. Data centers alone, Sun calculates, account for 2-3 percent of total world energy use, with all IT making up more like 4-5 percent. At big companies, 20 percent of total energy costs can typically be accounted for by information technology.

Yes They’re Real!!

- Vanessa King

Sometimes it’s easy to get distracted in life and forget how absolutely amazingly stunning and awe inspiring our planet is.
Like this for example…….
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Yes thats a real full man in there!
W-O-W!

More pics here!

Help Save the Planet in 10 Ways

- Adam Clare

There are so many ways to save the planet that people get overwhelmed, for those of you who are lost in the goodness please keep reading. HowStuffWorks has posted a basic list of ten things you can do to save the planet.

The list is rather simple as it includes things like recycling (who doesn’t?) and not buying bottled water.

It’s good to remind ourselves that there are simple everyday things we can do to protect the planet.

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