February 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Environment |
For telecommuters and self-employed home-office dwellers (not to mention bloggers) who don’t have the luxury of a dedicated home office, having a suitable space to work that isn’t a desk next to your bed can be tricky. It’s important to have space dedicated to work, or at least somewhere to easily stash your stuff if your dining table or sofa doubles as your home office.
Straight from Japan, the Trunk Station fills both needs, creating a little half-cube and enough space to …
February 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Environment |
Project Earth Day, an event organized by the USGBC Emerging Green Builders NY, is looking for a few good eco-savvy students to enter its 2nd Annual Student Competition. The questions you’ll need to ask yourself: How green are you? And how does your built environment inspire your fashion?
The challenge is to use an image or photograph from your built environment as inspiration to create an innovative fashion garment to be showcased on the runway. Entrants will be judged on aesthetics, execution of design, and the incorporation of one or more “ecological design” principles, such as eco-labeling, or dyes and water consumption. The grand prize is …
February 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Environment |
The City of Toronto and Zerofooprint have officially unveiled a new community-based weapon in the ongoing battle against climate change.
“It is up to all of us to do our part to minimize the impact of our day-to-day activities,” Mayor David Miller said yesterday at the launch. “Each of us can make a difference as we work together to make Toronto the greenest, most livable city in North America.”…
February 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Environment |
Wouldn’t it be great if boats ran on something that is both clean and plentiful at sea? Like waves for example. That’s not so crazy, it seems: The latest offspring of the Mermaid family (see lower in this post for the whole family tree) is the Suntory Mermaid II, a wave-powered boat.
“This month, 69-year-old Japanese sailor Ken-ichi Horie will attempt to captain the world
February 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Environment |
If a person can change things for their Carbon Footprint and make a difference on the environment, thinking the whole office can make a difference.
The things that we do in our daily life have an enormous impact on our environment. Whether we realize it is not, daily, we are adding to the problem of global warming.
The idea of this article is to offer a few tips that can help you reduce your office carbon footprint and help the environment by failing Add to the warming of the earth.
Do you really need to print that?
So, you are sitting at your desk and an e-mail received, You you want a copy of the e-mail, so you print it. Was that really necessary?
Statistics show that we use more than 11 million sheets of paper per year. That is a piece of paper!
By reducing the amount of paper you use for printing, you can not only save money, but you have a positive effect on the environment, because less paper we use the trees to be Less felled and the more oxygen we have.
Whose turn is the water plant?
Talking about trees and oxygen, By a plant or two in your office, you are infact help your office environment.
Imagine all these systems work in your office, computer, fax, printers, copiers and scanners, all these things make the air to be dry, so by plants in your office, you are infact increase in the Humidity in the air.
Printer cartridge has exhausted again So what
Do you when the printer is ready for a fill? Scrollt, the question must be, what do you do with the empty cartridge?
Over the past 10 years, 250 million cartridges have ended up in one of two landfills or incinerated. The year 1000 would last for a cartridge to organic.
With the amount of discarded cartridges, as filed, they would stretch over the radius of the moon!
There is now no excuse for someone to throw an empty cartridge in the box. More often than not, when you open the box of a new cartridge, there is a bag supplied for you to recycle the old one. All you have to do is the empty cartridge in the bag and after shutting down for recycling.
Did you turn off your computer before you left?
Leaving your computer is switched on, so that the lighting, the windows open and leaving office equipment on standby all fires to unnecessary energy.
All computers come with an energy-saving device, so there is no excuse to leave your computer on standby when you work for the day.
By changing your office equipment to power down systems, you create huge savings on the energy that we waste daily.
You Can your light bulbs to energy-saving lamps. Compact fluorescent lamps will help you reduce the amount of energy you use in your office on a daily basis.
Did you know that by leaving a window open overnight, you wasted enough energy to drive a small car for 35 miles?
It is not necessary to leave windows open or lights in an office overnight, or on weekends for that matter. So ensures that the lights off, the equipment is turned off and no windows are left open when leaving your office.
Whose turn is it to do to the stationary?
Did you know that in the UK we throw enough stuff every 2 hours to fill the Albert Hall?
There is now a wide range of products that we can buy, which come from recycling, so it's not always necessary to buy brand-new products that have not been recycled.
Next time you are flicking through the stationary catalog, look for the products that you can buy that have been recycled. Buying recycled office and stationary equipment helps reduce the amount of waste we throw away, which means less waste ends up in landfills.
So you have. A few tips to help you achieve your surroundings you an environmentally friendly office.
February 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Environment |
Craig Venter is an interesting person. He seems to always be at the cutting edge of biotechnology: In 2001, he made headlines for sequencing the human genome. In 2003, he started mapping the ocean’s biodiversity. Now he, with his firm Synthetic Genomics, is working on ways to produce energy with micro-organisms.
Still as ambitious as ever, he just announced at the TED conference (you can see Venter’s previous TED talk here, but his new one is not online yet): “We have modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry and becoming a major source of energy, we think we wil…
February 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Environment |
For many of us, the kitchen is one room in the house that can benefit most from design elements that help reduce clutter and create more space; as the focal point and gathering place of many homes, you can never have too much space. That’s the idea behind Turkish designer Fevzi Karaman’s modular concept: everything you’d need for a small kitchen is there, but neatly folds up and gets out of the way when you don’t.
It probably wouldn’t serve a family of five very well, but would be a great way to make the most of a small apartment. Hit the jump to see how a stove, sink, recycling bin, dish storage and more all fit in …
February 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Environment |
Recently, Allison Rogers threw a very green party. I arrived there quite inefficiently by driving through the icy streets of DC (for some reason I couldn’t take the metro and bus that night). I knocked on the door, and was welcomed by Kayanna, one of Allison’s vivacious green roommates. As I entered, I immediately observed that the whole house was lit with numerous strings of efficient LED lights….
February 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
Microsoft has been in acquisition discussions with email startup Xobni, we’ve confirmed through multiple sources. The company, which launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last year, currently offers an outlook plugin for Windows users that significantly improves the desktop email experience (particularly search).
Microsoft may have first approached the company months ago and floated an offer of [...]
February 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Environment |
Few native US forest species are more long-lived than Sequoias; which makes it pretty hard for US citizens to criticize this carbon offset scheme by worrying about how long the carbon would stay fixed. Might take awhile for the benefits to accrue in comparison to soil-conservation based, or other, offset projects. But then, not many hikers want a weekend tour of the soil.Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Tuesday it will pay about $2 million to help restore two California redwood forests as part of a ratepayer-funded program to offset the utility’s greenhouse gas emissions.
PG&E’s ClimateSmart program will invest the money in restoration p…