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The year is coming to an end so most people, or companies, are starting to look back at what they've accomplished. At the same time, with the holidays just around the corner, it's time perhaps to be a bit more generous.
Google is doing a bit of both, it a blog post, it's highlighting some of the chari... |
14 December 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Google.org, the charitable arm of Internet search engine company Google, wants to explore the potential of geothermal energy, superficially exploited only in the eastern part of the country until now. To turn this goal into reality, the organization supports the costs of the findings of scientists from Southern Metho... |
28 October 2011
02:38 GMT |
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Google may be known for its wide-ranging products, but there's more to the company than its websites and services. It running a blossoming charitable and environmental organization over at Google.org, it's investing heavily in green energy, and has recently launched a think tank, Google Ideas, to tackle som... |
27 June 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Google has invested in yet another green energy project, this time pouring in $100 million in a wind farm site in Oregon. When completed, the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is expected to be the largest such project in the world. This is Google's second big investment in green energy in the past few weeks."We recently... |
19 April 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Google has announced that it has invested $168 million towards the completion of a new solar energy plant in Nevada, US. When finished, it will be the largest "power tower" solar plant in the world and the investment is Google's largest in green technology to date."We’ve invested $168 million in an excitin... |
12 April 2011
05:00 GMT |
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Google is one of the geekiest places to work and is a company that has never been afraid of tackling hard scientific problems. It's not much of a surprise then that it is now starting a program for young students to showcase their most interesting projects, the Google Science Fair. The program will give students... |
11 January 2011
09:38 GMT |
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Google is feeling especially generous this time of the year and is announcing a couple of charitable initiatives. Google will be donating $20 million for several projects. At the same time, it also ran an interesting promotion with Chrome enabling users to have Google donate to their favorite charities on their behal... |
21 December 2010
09:29 GMT |
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Google is becoming a major player in the green energy business. It is now investing in a large-scale backbone transmission project which would make it more economically viable to deploy offshore wind turbines on the US Mid-Atlantic coast. "We just signed an agreement to invest in the development of a backbone transmi... |
12 October 2010
03:07 GMT |
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Google has been making some serious moves in the energy sector, but, though it’s not afraid to take on new markets, these have been made in order to bring down the company’s carbon footprint. This is an important goal for Google and it has been attacking it from different angles. Now the company is announ... |
20 July 2010
10:38 GMT |
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Google is rather accustomed to success by now and, while not all of it's venture pan out as it intends, the company keeps going from strength to strength. And it’s not just commercial products that benefit from Google’s attention, it also handles a rather interesting philanthropic arm, Google.org, wh... |
29 June 2010
08:56 GMT |
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Google’s ‘green’ arm has been particularly active lately and the company has been making several big moves in the energy sector. Now, through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, the company is announcing that it has partnered with the largest supplier of real-time energy use monitoring displays, Curr... |
25 May 2010
05:32 GMT |
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Google has been investing in alternative energy and looking at ways it can diversify its energy sources and bring down its carbon footprint. Its efforts, though, have been on a relatively small scale. Not anymore, the company has announced that it has invested $38.8 million in a large-scale wind farm project. It is t... |
4 May 2010
04:11 GMT |
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Google's green energy plans are moving forward with a new push to spread its PowerMeter initiative even further. The company is now releasing an open API for its PowerMeter widget so that device manufacturers can build smart devices to measure electricity consumption at the plug level. This will allow people to ... |
4 March 2010
06:08 GMT |
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Google is moving so fast in so many different markets that there are not that many things it could do that would prove surprising. Except maybe become a utility company, which is now within its rights to do. Google, or rather its subsidiary Google Energy, has been granted permission to become a wholesale electricity ... |
20 February 2010
05:59 GMT |
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Google is getting into a lot of things these days, operating systems, even phones, so there shouldn't be anything surprising to us coming from the Mountain View company. Except maybe that it's getting into the utility business, but that's exactly what the company is doing with the newly formed Google ... |
7 January 2010
06:47 GMT |
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Google may be a leader in Internet technologies, but its success has allowed the company to redirect some of its resources to fund environmental or philanthropic projects through its non-profit arm Google.org. One of its latest projects was revealed today at the International Climate Change Conference (COP15) which ... |
10 December 2009
10:54 GMT |
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Google is well known for its search engine and the myriad of web services and products it offers but it is also developing quite a powerful philanthropic arm with a greater focus on green energy. Its engineers are involved in several projects and one that could have a great impact in the short term is the PowerMeter ... |
6 October 2009
07:09 GMT |
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Though polio is a disease that has been thoroughly wiped out in developed countries, it still wrecks havoc in underdeveloped nations, such as India, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In an attempt to raise public awareness on the matter in the West, Google.org partially funded the Vermilion Films company, which in t... |
20 November 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Google figured out that, by tracking user queries on flu symptoms, it can predict ascending or descending trends of influenza spread throughout the United States. So Google.org, the company's philanthropic arm, created Google Flu Trends, a division that will provide users with detailed daily estimates of flu cas... |
12 November 2008
10:06 GMT |
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The philanthropic arm of Google announced an investment of over $10 million in unconventional geothermal energy. Google's decision to become involved in yet another environmental project comes a month after it invested another $2.75 million in the development of plug-in electric vehicles. This time, the investme... |
20 August 2008
04:24 GMT |
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Global warming and its implications have been hot topics in people's discussions for a couple of years now. "Global warming is caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases that are emitted primarily by the burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of forests. These gases remain in our atmos... |
23 July 2008
10:35 GMT |
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