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Greenpeace still hunting for truly green electronics

New consumer electronics products are a little greener than those on sale a year ago -- but manufacturers could do much better, according to Greenpeace.

| News | Green IT | Personal tech | 01/08/09 at 9:49 am |


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NZ 747 goes biofuel

New Zealand, which is working hard to cut down its carbon emissions, is developing a jumbo jet engine that can run partly on vegetable oil. Mmmm french fries.

| News | Science | 01/07/09 at 5:00 pm |


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US in danger of losing green-tech competition, experts say

The next industrial revolution will not be in IT, but in ET -- energy technology -- and the U.S. is in danger of missing the boat, two green tech experts said Wednesday.

| News | Government | Green IT | 01/07/09 at 2:51 pm |


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Slow-growing green

Could saving the Earth -- and your company's bottom line -- be as simple as using fresh air to cool your data center? It's not quite that simple, but it can be one step toward those goals, because companies that use natural air to cool their facilities are seeing big benefits on both the environmental and financial fronts.



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