Google’s Web-based word processor, Google Docs, can now be used offline to view and edit documents in your browser. That means you no longer need to be connected to the Internet to write a letter or draft an agreement. When you connect again, all your changes are updated. Google Docs now joins [...]
TheFunded, a site where entrepreneurs can leave anonymous feedback about their experiences with venture capitalists, has created quite a stir on Sand Hill Road. Rarely do I meet with a VC without the subject of it coming up, and how unfair it is. The fact that the site is now publishing confidential term sheet clauses [...]
Facebook isn’t just messing around with a few European language translations any more. They’re using their new user-powered translation engine to get Facebook into 22 more languages, on top of English, French, German and Spanish.
It will take some time for users to translate the sites, and Facebook likes to stagger launches to maximize PR. If [...]
Seattle based wiki-startup Wetpaint has been talking to a number of big content sites about a new product they’ll be releasing soon, we’ve heard. The screen shot above is a mock-up that Wetpaint is using to pitch potential partners.
The product is an embeddable wysiwyg wiki. That alone is interesting, just because there aren’t any easy [...]
Architect Ralph Rapson was a pioneer of prefab, did a classic case study house, and was still designing ’till the day he died, on March 29.
His son described him to the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal as a “Forrest Gump” of architecture, explaining that his father was born with a birth defect that eventually resulted in the loss of his right arm. However, his disability did not prevent Rapson, who was artistically inclined from a young age, from pursuing a love for drawing. “He was really captivated by post-war ideas of new construction, using new materials, and new building techniques, and rethinking ideas of how space is used were his passions.”
“He always joked that he would be carrie…
Response to the problems associated with the disposal of used carpet, the carpet industry has a collaboration with the government and other interested groups to create a program that encourages the recycling of used materials carpet.
This partnership Has an agreement whereby the national targets for increasing the amount of carpet that is recycles. As a result of this joint effort is the foundation of the whole industry that is built around the collection and recycling of used materials carpet.
new house, furnished fresh and new carpet looks great and feels good under your Feet. Wall to wall carpet, also known as tufted carpet, is still the most popular choice in flooring for home and commercial applications. In fact, carpet accounts for more than seventy percent of all floors on the sale in the United States and tufted or wall to wall carpet represents more than ninety percent of all carpet sold.
Now let us look at the numbers another way. According to the Carpet and Rug Institute, an industry trade association, if you calculate all of the carpet sold in the United States and convert the number of pounds sold you arrive at a spread of nine billion pounds. Now that is a piece of carpet made no mention of the other materials needed to install, clean and maintain that all new flooring.
The business of carpet can be a tremendous impact on the environment. Have you ever considered what happens to the carpet that was replaced a year? Most of the more than 4 billion pounds of carpet that has been replaced each year goes to the landfill. The costs associated with the proper disposal of used carpet can be felt by consumers, carpet sellers and installers as the cost of taking carpet rid of the local landfills continues to increase each year.
Since carpet sellers and installers tend order cost for disposal of consumers feel a bigger pinch. There is no telling how many used carpet has been removed in a way that less than legal or less than friendly to the environment.
Although some types of carpet fiber and backing recyclable materials is more than others, there is now a nationwide network of locations that recycling service. The result is a steady death in the amount of materials used carpet that ultimately in the local landfill. At the other end of the carpet cycle, the producers are working on getting more recycled carpet fiber in their products.
It is important to note that the move towards increased recycling has been driven by more than just dollars and cents Because many consumers are increasingly concerned about the environment. Consumers have become more aware of the consequences of their buying choices have on the environment and many of us are adjusting their spending habits as a result.
There are things you can do as a consumer to a positive change. If you choose to use a carpet product for your home or business should be sought from the vendor and installer as they participate in a carpet recycling program. Selecting a quality, long wear carpet product that is appropriate for the location, will help to reduce the need to replace your carpet. As a wider range of carpet products are made from recycled material, select a carpet that is the highest amount of recycled content.
Remember that good cleaning and maintaining your carpets you can extend the life of the product and make sure that you or your carpet cleaning professional sound has all wastewater and links about cleaning chemicals.
When we hear from Aviary it’s bound to be something entertaining and fun. The New York based company remains in private beta but adds to its suite of image manipulation products regularly. The newest tool is called Dodo, a web-based time machine.
A video demo is below. You upload an image to the service and it [...]
Publish2, the stealth Digg-Clone-For-Journalists that announced a fundraising this morning, is being very quiet about exactly what their product is and how it works. In an interview last week they told me only friends and family were testing it.
Well, it turns out “friends and family” is fairly expansive term in their book, and includes [...]
This week is Carnival of the Green # 121 and it’s being hosted by Michelle Verges at Conserve Plastic Bags. So head on over to the site to check out a round up of green news and events from the past week, submitted by other bloggers and green sites.
To learn more about Carnival of the Green, where it will be and how to host (we are now accepting hosts for the second half of 2009!), please click here to link to our previous post….
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
We are thrilled to report that we need no longer worry about global warming or peak oil; we will all have been eaten by a black hole long before that. It is like Arthur C. Clarke’s short story The Nine Billion Names of God; science going “oops” (there is always time to say oops) as the world comes to an end. Or before Almagordo, when Oppenheimer and everyone at Los Alamos was trying to calculate if setting off the A-bomb might actually set the entire atmosphere on fire. A group scientists are afraid that firing up the new $ 8 billion Large Hadron Collider at CERN might create a …