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Andrea from Andrea's Choice blog, one of the most popular green beauty blogs out there, has just uploaded a brand new makeup tutorial. The best part of it is you can get an exquisite look with minimum impact on the planet. Check it out above, just in case you're interested in replicating that look. Andrea i... |
20 January 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Artist Alice Ninni is aware of the influence art has on people; therefore, she combines the power of music with appropriate images in a new concept called “music painting,” hoping to deliver a strong environmental statement.
The music is taken from “Lacrime de Giulietta” created by Matteo Ne... |
27 December 2011
07:48 GMT |
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Google is squeezing in another green energy investment, before the year is over. The company is pouring $94 million, €72 million in a number of solar panel projects. These are large scale projects that tap directly into the grid, a first of its kind investment for Google.The company has made a few very lar... |
20 December 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Nature is a great source of inspiration for scientists worldwide. After inventing the tree-inspired solar arrays and the carbon-absorbing cement imitating coral reefs, experts though it is time to come up with a new sustainable material copying the resistance of insect cuticles to replace plastic in an efficient mann... |
17 December 2011
06:09 GMT |
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The auto industry is scaling up efforts to go greener. Recyclable car parts can be used in many ways, but two American architects take these pieces and exploit them in an ingenious, unconventional way, while building an eco-friendly house in Berkeley, California. Karl Wanaselja has worked in partnership with Cate L... |
16 December 2011
02:17 GMT |
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Nowadays, money helps us get almost anything we want. Luxurious cars, large houses, land on the Moon? Done. An ingenious artists proves that the possibilities are endless, by designing a broom made of dollar bills. Mark Wagner is the talented American artist, writer and publisher behind this project and the spectacul... |
15 December 2011
11:14 GMT |
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Australia is eager to fully embrace clean green solar power and money shouldn't represent a bump in the road, even if this ambitious project requires a lot more than pocket change. In order to exploit the entire potential of renewables, Canberra would have to come up with $100 billion.
This amount is necessary ... |
6 December 2011
05:55 GMT |
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Friends of the Earth are keen on fighting the dramatic cuts announced by the government for solar power industry, despite that their first court battle is officially lost. Their legal action was rejected by a High Court. The eco-group is still eager to find ways of blocking the anticipated governmental initiative of... |
6 December 2011
05:00 GMT |
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An innovative business strategy coming from San Francisco is planning to revolutionize the activity of small craft breweries by helping them improve their eco-conscious attitude.
Their ‘Can Van’ project aims to bring canning equipment meant to guide owners towards financial savings while minimizing their ecologica... |
6 December 2011
04:23 GMT |
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7,000 airlines could start using sustainable jet fuels on a large scale sooner than expected, according to Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Group. His forecast is based on the idea that such companies currently have access to only 1,700 aviation stations all across the globe.
Therefore, the limited number of &ld... |
5 December 2011
04:42 GMT |
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The future seems to be bright and eco-friendly, according to experts from the International Energy Agency who think that up to one third of the global energy demand will be satisfied by clean green solar power by 2060.
This strategy would come as an effective response both to climate change phenomenon and fossil fu... |
5 December 2011
02:57 GMT |
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An important player in the pharmaceutical industry, Novo Nordisk has decided to spare the lives of 700 animals every year. The company has proudly announced it will no longer test its biological products on misfortunate creatures. Experts from PETA's Regulatory Testing Division (RTD) have struggled for a long ti... |
2 December 2011
10:59 GMT |
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The innovative Plant Pod launched by Alastair Crompton makes all the right decisions, saving you a lot of time and effort. The company has developed a smart pot that actually hydrates itself, without needing your help.
Tending to a garden is always a time-consuming activity. Taking care of plants usually requires b... |
2 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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Music definitely makes the world a better place, but not when it kills a great part of the global tree population in the process of manufacturing guitars. C.F. Martin & Co., an eco-conscious company proves there are several alternatives for enterprises operating in this line of business.
The guitar maker from Penns... |
2 December 2011
06:52 GMT |
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The National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony has become a symbol for the American citizens during this time of the year. For almost nine decades, the event has increased its popularity and gained more and more followers.
President Barack Obama himself was expected to lighten the 19-foot-tall balsam fir. This is th... |
1 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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UN officials highlight that climate change is correlated with extreme weather, heat waves and severe drought. All these unfriendly conditions could make us forget about football, one of the most popular sports all across the Globe. While most of the people tend to disregard the serious consequences triggered by thi... |
29 November 2011
03:28 GMT |
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Greenpeace has posted the latest edition of its Guide to Greener Electronics, placing HP at the top of the list with the highest score, and Apple on the no. 4 spot (up five places since last year), calling the Mac maker “a joint top scoring company on green products and relatively strong on sustainable operatio... |
9 November 2011
09:10 GMT |
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For those who do not know, Samsung kicked off the Mobile Solutions Forum event in Westin, Taipei, where it revealed several things that both consumers and product developers may find interesting.
By now, many people will no doubt be aware of the fact that the IT industry is placing a significant emphasis on green... |
29 September 2011
19:51 GMT |
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Google's most advanced data center yet went live over the weekend. It's one of the company's biggest in Europe yet and it's one of the most energy efficient, but that's not what sets it apart.
The new data center in Hamina, Finland is Google's first water cooled data center. Because o... |
12 September 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Google cares a lot about its green credentials and does a lot to lower its carbon footprint and generally do green business. This drive is not only great for the environment, but it's also great for Google's image too.
Not that anyone's complaining that Google gets a little good will by striving to ... |
8 September 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Microsoft Hohm never graduated from Beta, and now it never will since the green service will be discontinued in less than a year. Microsoft signed the offering’s death sentence at the end of June 2011, and informed that Hohm will only be kept alive until May 31, 2012. The Redmond company stressed that feedback... |
1 July 2011
04:52 GMT |
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The word 'green' is being used to denote a lot of things these days, especially on the technology market, and it looks like Intel is ready to add a new meaning to the word, using algae, among other things.Green technology has been getting more and more widespread but it looks like it wasn't widespread... |
22 April 2011
03:23 GMT |
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Microsoft’s green initiatives span from its datacenter designs to features built into its software products, and across mundane company operations.The latest eco-friendly initiative from the software giant is designed to help save no less than 8,000 trees per year, and involves switching to 100% recycled paper... |
20 April 2011
05:35 GMT |
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A green technology business-to-business news company going by the name of Greentech Media has just released its very own iPhone app, which allows users to take news and research from the fast-paced green and clean technology world with them, the company said today.
Available for free download in the iTunes App sto... |
5 January 2011
10:23 GMT |
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A company engineering revolutionary ways in which bioplastics are used has announced a range of iPod touch 4G cases made from plant material, “providing an environmentally friendly option for Apple device owners who want complete protection without sacrificing natural resources, functionality or style.”
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20 December 2010
08:47 GMT |
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Apple has dropped to 9th place from 5th, in the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics with the same score of 4.9 for failing to provide a public position on its support for immediate restrictions in RoHS 2.0 on organo- chlorine and bromine compounds.Greenpeace believes “Apple does best on the toxic chemicals ... |
28 October 2010
02:34 GMT |
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Seeking to drive the energy efficiency of the NIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card as low as possible, Galaxy's European brand KFA2 has brought out the GeForce GTX 460 Green Edition and even a dual-card GTX 460 pack, for SLI setups.As end-users surely know by now, Green stands for a product that has a high degree o... |
8 September 2010
09:03 GMT |
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UK's first-ever green ranking scheme for mobile phones is not something Apple would rather be a part of, following the successful launch of its iPhone 4 across multiple territories worldwide.An Apple spokeswoman reportedly declined to comment on why the company has decided not to join the campaign, but did point... |
26 August 2010
10:43 GMT |
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Today, over 400 international experts gathered at the University of Southampton, for Photon 10, the biggest optics and photonics conference in Europe, where the latest developments in “green photonics” will be shared.The president of the United States' Optoelectronics Development Association (OIDA), ... |
23 August 2010
05:27 GMT |
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Central processing and graphics processing units aren't the only chips that get landed with more advanced manufacturing processes. In fact, the memory industry is advancing quite fast itself, and Samsung seems to do a great job at proving this by efficiently moving on to smaller nodes. Most recently, the company... |
21 July 2010
03:01 GMT |
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Apple claims that its commitment to the environment includes finding the most efficient ways to reuse or recycle electronic equipment, including computers and displays from any manufacturer. The Mac maker also strives to reduce even the consumer’s carbon footprint, by making extremely power-efficient computers,... |
18 June 2010
10:49 GMT |
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Samsung Mobile and Sprint have announced the official launch of their eco-friendly cell phone, the Samsung Restore. The device is an 84% recyclable phone with an outer casing that contains 27% post-consumer recycled plastic. With an entirely recyclable package, powered by an Energy Star version 2.0 energy-efficient c... |
8 June 2010
10:55 GMT |
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Ubisoft, one of the biggest videogame publishers in the world, has announced that it plans to eliminate manuals from all its upcoming titles launched on the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. All the data the player needs to enjoy their videogame will be offered digitally on the game disk. The f... |
21 April 2010
03:26 GMT |
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While Point of View uses the literal term of the word “green” to describe its upcoming GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics adapters, NEC has adopted the metaphorical meaning in its description of the AccuSync AS231WM, the company's latest 23-inch LCD with advanced power saving and environment-footpr... |
1 April 2010
10:52 GMT |
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Being green might be the thing to do – and the admirable one as well –, but a recent study comes to show that it too comes at a price, which has nothing to do with us being willing to give it a try. Environmentally aware shoppers are more likely to be mean, while also more inclined to steal and cheat, the... |
18 March 2010
14:41 GMT |
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Now that technology has reached a stage where performance is high enough to, more or less, keep up with end-user demands, IT corporations can invest more time and effort into making their products safer and easier on the environment. Among them is Samsung, which has just revealed the existence of a 2TB hard drive tha... |
2 February 2010
04:05 GMT |
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Greenpeace has posted a new chart showing which of the 18 companies indexed by the organization have eliminated the most harmful chemicals from their product ranges. Scoring four gold stars, Apple takes first place in the ranking, getting praised by the non-governmental organization for removing many toxic chemicals ... |
8 January 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Ever-mindful of the environmental footprint that any technological product leaves behind, HP has refreshed its product line with an offering that promises to help businesses reduce their impact on the environment, even while boasting a high performance and reliability. These green solutions, the Compaq 8000f Elite an... |
6 January 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Fujitsu Group aims to aid in the establishment of a worldwide low-carbon society by 2020 and, to this end, it plans to turn its Green Policy Innovation project into a worldwide effort. World leaders decided, during the most recent Group of Eight Summit, that efforts should be made to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by... |
8 December 2009
09:13 GMT |
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The new Green Data Center inaugurated by the Syracuse University, IBM and the Sate of New York was announced back in May and is an example of IBM's Smarter Planet initiative, an initiative focused on assisting clients in the use of digital intelligence, improving products and whole systems alike. The data center... |
3 December 2009
05:21 GMT |
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NEC released what can be considered the greenest LCD display developed by the company so far. It is called the MultiSync EA222WMe and is a 22-inch LED-backlit Liquid Crystal Display monitor able to provide panel brightness equal to other panel types while consuming 20% less power. In addition, it weighs 25 percent le... |
1 December 2009
10:30 GMT |
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By announcing the “Green my Apple" campaign earlier this year, Apple responded to accusations brought by Greenpeace that the company still wasn’t meeting standards imposed by the organization. As an answer, the Mac maker not only introduced its new initiative, but also launched greener products, including... |
30 November 2009
04:46 GMT |
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The Quantum Chromodynamics Parallel Computing on the Cell (QPACE) is a German research supercomputer used in elementary particle physics simulations, mostly aimed at research in the area of quantum chromodynamics (QCD, which describes, for instance, how protons are composed of quarks and gluons). The system is a four... |
21 November 2009
04:59 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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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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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has announced today that it has released two reports demonstrating its dedication in reducing its impact on the environment, thanks to the adoption of new production technologies and the implementation of energy conservation projects at all of the chip maker's m... |
26 August 2009
09:08 GMT |
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With Apple striving to meet Greenpeace standards in removing all toxic and non-recyclable materials from its products, the iPod maker could well use a guy like Josh Darrah on its team of designers. The Australian graphic designer going by the screen name of jozaeh on flickr has created an iPod mini case almost entire... |
9 July 2009
05:41 GMT |
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While Apple touts its new products as being even greener than their predecessors, the latest Greenpeace survey says otherwise. Although it got high marks for reducing toxic chemicals, the Mac maker scored low in the organization’s Guide to Greener electronics for not supporting global recycling initiatives or u... |
2 July 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Software and information technology systems will be critical catalysts for green innovations, John Vassallo, microsoft vice president, EU Affairs, opined. After speaking at the European Union’s Green Week conference in Brussels, Vassallo pointed out that solutions designed to solve environmental issues had to r... |
30 June 2009
05:44 GMT |
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Published by Italian iPhone fan site iSpazio, the picture available to the left shows an iPhone with an all-black frame, and a front-facing camera – two features that may just see the light of day, Softpedia believes. The folks at CultOfMac chime in, posting the mockup of an iPhone video iChat by Graham Bower ... |
4 June 2009
05:14 GMT |
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