Over the past few decades, sightings of the Palouse earthworm (Driloleirus americanus) were so rare, that when the first specimen was seen in 2005, after more than seven years, scientists were convinced that it had not been extinct. Upon hearing that an exemplary had been found, naturalists and ecologists rushed to t... |
2 July 2009
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Microsoft has debuted a new, green initiative designed as a Cloud-based application labeled Hohm. To understand the new service, users have to think of another project from the Redmond company, namely HealthVault. Essentially, Hohm is designed to be to home energy consumption what HealthVault is to health. Microsoft ... |
24 June 2009
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The citizens of Maryland are discontented by the US Army's constant failure to respect the timetable imposed last year by the Environmental Protection Agency for cleaning up the polluting mess. Although army officials claim they take care of it, they say they're doing it at their own pace. The Pentagon reso... |
17 October 2008
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Ecological vehicles are celebrating the arrival of the youngest member of their family, the HyPower Nissan Almera. Developed by a group of experts from the Sunderland University, it is powered by hydrogen. Actually, it is not a completely new car. The scientist team, led by Dirk Kok of AMAP (the Institute of Aut... |
13 September 2008
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Researchers from Timelink – an environmental design company based in Dubai – have come up with the idea of building these carbon-free cities in order to accommodate people on a surface that covers about 10% of the area they would otherwise need. The term "ziggurat," which comes from the Akkadian lang... |
8 September 2008
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed that Microsoft is nothing short of on the leading edge of "green" when it comes down to the strategy implemented to address environmental and sustainability problems. In the Q&A round of his keynote at Convergence 2008, on March 12, Ballmer stated that he consi... |
13 March 2008
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The IT industry has been hit by a new obsession: environmental-friendly products. Every major hardware manufacturer has to design their components in such a way for everyone to see how they love old fellow Earth. Although there are no standard eco-friendly specifications, worldwide manufacturers outline their ecologi... |
26 November 2007
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Do you want to save the planet? Do you want to lead a healthy life in a healthy environment? In this case, you must know that the way you have sex can ruin all these things. The answer: ecological sex!1. Lights off! If all sex magazines tell you to do this, ecological sex rules recommend you to do quite the opposite.... |
20 September 2007
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For those who were never about to rock and don't have a clue what the Wall of Sound was, here's the ultra-short story: the Wall of Sound was Grateful Dead's (tell me you have at least heard of them, please) loudspeaker array with whose help they kept on rocking the entire world. It boasted 26,400W and ... |
21 July 2007
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