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Wireless carrier Sprint seems determined to show to the world that it deserves to be ranked highest among all US telecoms in Newsweek’s Green Rankings. On Thursday, the company announced its support for America Recycles Day, and that it encouraged its customers into making environmentally conscious choices whe... |
13 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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In the presence of lawmakers and local dignitaries, officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, cut the ribbon on a new, environmentally friendly Flight Projects Center building at the lab today. The new structure is the American space agency's g... |
27 October 2009
08:54 GMT |
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Biologists and naturalists have recently determined that big cats, which include the tiger, the leopard, the cheetah, and many others, are very fussy about their environments, and don't take nicely to changes. The new study, which was conducted on cats living in Tanzania, determined that the mammals actually avo... |
12 October 2009
03:02 GMT |
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Following the positive response from Greenpeace over publishing its carbon emissions, Apple is now being praised by the U.S. Secretary of Energy for its decision to resign its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its stance on climate change. According to AppleInsider citing Reuters, Energy Secretary Stev... |
9 October 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Apple is the latest company to resign from the United States Chamber of Commerce because of the chamber’s strident criticism of plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the US. Three large companies made the same move in recent weeks for the same reason, according to a report over at The New York Times. Acco... |
6 October 2009
03:01 GMT |
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Apple ranks around the middle of the scale in the latest edition of the Guide to Greener Electronics. However, the company recently claimed its efforts to stay green were not reflected by the chart, with Greenpeace now admitting the figures were put together before Apple’s recent publication of its green initia... |
2 October 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Google has finally provided some updated information on the Project 10^100 it launched last year. To celebrate the company's tenth birthday, Google asked people all over the world to submit their ideas to change the world and promised to fund the best ones. It was supposed to end by January 2009 but it took a lo... |
25 September 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Apple has updated its Environment section, where visitors of it website can get the full scoop on the company’s environmental footprint. On the updated section, visitors can find out what the Mac maker is doing to lessen its impact on the planet, and even our own, as consumers. BusinessWeek cites Apple executi... |
25 September 2009
03:07 GMT |
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The GNOME developers are optimistic about the GNOME 2.28.0 Release Candidate (2.27.92), they worked for 16 days on it and then made it available for public scrutiny. The changelogs have grown considerably shorter than those of the beta releases, but that is only natural, because GNOME is heading for a stable 2.28 rel... |
10 September 2009
08:14 GMT |
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The issue of choosing between bottled and tap water has often been discussed but it seems that, no matter the pro and con arguments brought to the table, many still prefer bottled water over what is seen as an “inferior” alternative for it, tap water. However, before deciding in favor of the bottled versi... |
13 August 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Pollution, oil spill, and air contamination are all real problems, as most of you living in large cities know. When it comes to their effect on nature, it can roughly be quantized, simply because there is no way of knowing how much damage an accident such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill caused. Its effects stretch to t... |
9 July 2009
04:57 GMT |
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T-Mobile, USA, Inc. announced on Monday the release of Green Perks, a new app that provides exclusive discounts on green products and services. According to the company, the new application can be downloaded for free for a wide range of existing T-Mobile handsets, and delivers to users green-oriented offers and promo... |
30 June 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Yahoo! has announced today that its new Yahoo! Mobile experience is now available in nine more countries, and that 100 more devices all around the world now support it. Yahoo! Mobile enables users to stay connected and informed directly via their mobile devices, while also offering them connectivity in 17 countries. ... |
16 June 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Bottled water comes with its pros and cons, just like most products these days, it has been said. One of the things that work against bottled water is that the material used to make just one recipient can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade, while also leaking toxic additives into the soil. Give water, on the other ... |
12 June 2009
14:41 GMT |
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The Australian government seems to have succumbed to the increased pressures and threats coming in from the fossil fuel and mining industries. Their representatives have warned that, if the new set of legislations on regulating greenhouse gases passes, they would basically take their business elsewhere, rather than s... |
4 May 2009
09:20 GMT |
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According to a growing consent among academics in the United States, the country is ill-equipped to handle the emerging challenges of the 21st century, in terms of protecting both the environment and the safety and health off its citizens. That is to say, the existing agencies, far from being incapable, simply find i... |
28 April 2009
06:11 GMT |
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A new comprehensive survey of the effects that fires around the globe have on the environment has revealed that the amount of carbon dioxide placed in the atmosphere naturally is about 50 percent that emitted by humans through burning fossil fuels. These finds suggest that the influence of events such as wildfires ha... |
24 April 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Having served more than four months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus returned home with something more than just the experience of working in weightlessness. She, like many other ISS crew members before her, said she realized just how fragile our planet was, from a perspective not ... |
22 April 2009
09:43 GMT |
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NextWorth, the company that, last year, announced a trade-in service for first-generation iPhone owners looking to upgrade to the new 3G model, has now confirmed expanding its recycling services beyond Apple's iPods and iPhones. The player in consumer electronic upgrades and trade-ins informed of new categories ... |
14 April 2009
14:01 GMT |
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The Russian government-held company Gazprom, the world's largest producer of natural gas, and the giant Shell Corporations have only recently signed an agreement that would basically allow the European monopoly to start selling its products on the US market, the largest of the kind in the world. The products wil... |
13 April 2009
06:59 GMT |
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In this 11th edition of the Guide to Greener Electronics, Greenpeace has penalized corporate IT vendors for failing to commit to eliminating PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of this year. Apple climbed four spots on the ranking (now on tenth place) for suc... |
2 April 2009
05:42 GMT |
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has finally come to its senses following its period of submission to political will during the Bush administration, and has finally put all the permits of mountaintop mining operators on hold, pending further investigation. As Bush left the White House, he granted his personal f... |
25 March 2009
07:38 GMT |
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More than 70 warships and auxiliary vessels can be found at Suisun Bay, near San Francisco, on the western coast of the United States. They are a part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF), which is currently managed by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), a part of the US Department of Transportation. Recentl... |
14 March 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Breaking loose from its wrong, Bush-era policies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now plans to ask all companies in the United States to reveal exactly how much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) they emit in the atmosphere. This is a first for the federal agency, which has been tied up by the previ... |
11 March 2009
05:27 GMT |
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President Obama's choice for a green jobs, enterprise and innovation advisor has been widely applauded, as Van Jones, the founder of Oakland, California-based national Green for All organization, is a famous activist for civil rights and an acclaimed author. He has published The New York Times best-seller book, ... |
11 March 2009
04:54 GMT |
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In order to help reduce the carbon footprint associated with computers worldwide, Google co-founded the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) to teach and educate users on how to build a “greener” future. How? By using power management tools on their personal computers and buying more efficient machi... |
10 March 2009
08:25 GMT |
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The preferred source of food for the Panda bears, bamboo, may soon be used to create eco-friendly cloths, as the wonderful plant has properties that other synthetic materials, as well as cotton, could only dream of. In addition, the bamboo fabric is very soft to the touch, and has a few extra anti-bacterial features ... |
3 March 2009
07:05 GMT |
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A US-Norwegian scientific expedition headed towards the Norwegian Troll Research Station in Antarctica on Monday, to meet with policymakers and Environment Ministries from several countries. The purpose was to discuss the state of the ice sheets in the region and to assess the threat that they posed to global sea lev... |
24 February 2009
04:51 GMT |
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The state of California is currently getting ready to invest more than $50 billion into a state-of-the-art railroad system, one that would take strain off the already-crowded airport and road systems. The move is being hailed by supporters, who say that the bold initiative will make for a smoother and less polluting ... |
23 February 2009
06:24 GMT |
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The House and Senate approved on Friday the final stimuls bill, which awards more than $1.5 billion to agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the National Park Service (NPS) and the Forest Service for various ongoing projects, as well as for the beginning of cleaning operations in various parts of the ... |
16 February 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced an innovative solar-powered full-touch screen phone called “Blue Earth,” which fits the company's vision for environmental sustainability. Samsung reinforces its commitment to protect the environment under the slogan “The Blue Earth Dream: Eco-living with ... |
13 February 2009
03:01 GMT |
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What celebrities understand by the term of raising awareness on environmental issues is often limited to them showing up at press events, eventually donating money for the cause and then returning to their regular lives. With Jackie Chan, things are the other way around, as he recently revealed that he does his best ... |
28 January 2009
11:11 GMT |
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In an anticipated and highly-expected move, president Barack Obama has gone after some of the latest climate proposals that former president George W. Bush tried to push through Congress in the time frame between Election Day and Inauguration Day. These decisions are usually very hard to reverse and take years to do ... |
26 January 2009
03:35 GMT |
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The new 17-inch, unibody MacBook Pro has seen more advertising than any of its siblings, the 13-inch MacBook and the 15-inch MacBook Pro. One aspect Apple greatly emphasizes about the notebook is the extended battery life, which is in strong relation with the greenness of the laptop. The latest notebooks available fr... |
9 January 2009
02:36 GMT |
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What with the recent frenzy in terms of initiatives meant to protect the environment, all of them with good reason, of course, here comes yet another one, just as original and double as exciting as the others before it. Designer Camila Labra has created the eco-friendly ankle boots from plastic carrier bags, the Bota... |
8 January 2009
04:58 GMT |
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In a Greenpeace blog post, we were astonished to find that the organization we believed was really into the environment thing (and less into publicity) was bashing Apple for the third time in less than a few months. Although the company's new family of notebooks is by far less toxic than most other laptops (and ... |
8 January 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Gold has always been a major fuel for humans' imagination, oft-present in their tales, from legends and children's stories to serious novels, stressing on the importance of the glittering material associated with the difference between rich and poor. The Incan, who built vast cities of gold, referred to it ... |
16 December 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Recently, the reputed specialists from H-Arquitectes in Barcelona have completed their laminated wood house, built on a natural rock platform on the hills of Vacarisses, in Catalunya, Spain. The construction needed almost two years and a €200.000 budget to be completed, but the results prove the efforts were no... |
13 December 2008
04:33 GMT |
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The latest movie featuring Keanu Reeves, as well as Will Smith's son, Jaden Smith, called “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” has been the most eco-friendly effort made by the people at 20th Century Fox studios. They even plan to send the movie in space from a dish antenna in Florida, towards Alpha Cent... |
11 December 2008
07:16 GMT |
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After Bush and the EPA made the coal mining industry a going-away present, in the bill that allowed it to dump debris from its mountaintop exploitations – in other words, the sites where they blew the top of mountains and picked the coal that came out – activists from several environmental groups managed ... |
9 December 2008
05:54 GMT |
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In spite of the promising predictions made during the changing of the millennium about hydrogen, which was supposed to fuel the average vehicles (from car to airplane and ship), supply the energy production process, and do all that without posing a threat to the environment, almost a decade later things are still as ... |
1 December 2008
05:49 GMT |
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After the recent riot that took place in the city of Paragominas, when a 3,000-large mob destroyed governmental buildings, stole confiscated wood, and used a tractor to assault the hotel where environmental officials and inspectors were spending the night, the Brazilian government cracked down on illegal wood cutters... |
28 November 2008
03:06 GMT |
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An independent assessment concluded that the Chevron Corporation should pay $27 billion to the state of Ecuador, for the damages it had done to the environment, by polluting huge portions of the nation's rain forest, between 1972 and 1992. The report, written by geologist Richard Cabrera, is harshly criticized b... |
27 November 2008
04:11 GMT |
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Greenpeace again reacted positively to Apple's ongoing efforts of removing PVC and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from some products, but noted that the Mac maker would have to completely phase-out such elements to score higher on the Guide to Greener Electronics. Apple is also facing some deadlines in its i... |
26 November 2008
05:51 GMT |
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When introducing the new line of MacBook computers, Apple was very keen to stress just how much it achieved with the new devices, both from a functional point of view, and from an environmental perspective.Hence, the company has recently set up a page that talks about the new MacBook line, dubbed by Apple “the ... |
25 November 2008
06:55 GMT |
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The situation of the Murray-Darling river system has just turned critical, Australian scientists warn, in a new study. Years and years of poor management and toxic waste disposal in the area have prompted modifications in salinity, acidity, temperature and nutrient levels, in waters fueling the river system. In addit... |
17 November 2008
11:01 GMT |
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Yesterday, November 4th, 2008, US citizens from all over the world (including in space) have chosen Barack Obama as their 44th president. His approach to science support and development had attracted praises and votes from a large number of Nobel prize winners. Two months ago, he declared that the US had reduced too... |
5 November 2008
11:09 GMT |
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The Luscious Garage in Bay Area is the only garage of the few specialized in hybrid cars that is run by a woman. However, it differentiates from the other garages by more than just that. Everything inside is green, one way or another, starting with the plants and trees thriving all over the place, to the cleanness o... |
5 November 2008
05:42 GMT |
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The number of snowmobiles that will be allowed in the Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks was capped at 318 machines, as opposed to the 605 limit, previously requested by park authorities. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan decided to decrease the daily number of vehicles in the parks because they create too m... |
4 November 2008
10:55 GMT |
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We all know that the environmental collapse topic is overrated, old news and largely discussed, to the point where it has become devoid of its true meaning. However, with all the people talking about it and urging towards taking a stance, one would expect that all is going better and that the problems are finally st... |
4 November 2008
04:29 GMT |
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