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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
David Cooper, Toronto Star
87% of the land in the Province of Ontario is “Crown Land”- owned by the government. They decided to open some of it up for wind power, and set a deadline of 8AM February 20th. There used to be a limit on the number of applications that one company can make, but [...]
