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How and Why You Should Recycle Your Old Electronics

April 17, 2013 6:30 PM1 comment
How and Why You Should Recycle Your Old Electronics

If you’re like most people, you have several old electronic gadgets lying around the house that you don’t use anymore. They’re probably there because you know you’re not supposed to put them in the trash but you don’t know how to get rid of them properly. The best way is [...]

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The Green Family: 4 Eco-friendly Apps to Help You Go Green

March 26, 2013 8:04 PM0 comments
The Green Family: 4 Eco-friendly Apps to Help You Go Green

If you are looking to do your part in the fight to preserve our planet for the next generation, there are new ways popping up every day to help you go green. To help you in this goal, you’ll be glad to know there are a number of relevant phone [...]

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Green Information Technology: Virtual Data Centers

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Green Information Technology: Virtual Data Centers

As the consumer market for electronic products continues to grow, businesses continue to expand their storage and data retention requirements. Common devices have made high-definition video and photography made available to almost anyone, resulting in an endless growth in new data that must be stored and recorded for future access. [...]

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Smart Homes: The Future of Sustainable Design?

November 25, 2012 12:45 PM0 comments
Smart Homes: The Future of Sustainable Design?

For years, people have been talking about so-called ‘Smart Homes’ that will transform live as we know it and forever alter the way we go about our daily lives. Both fiction and speculative science have been replete with visions of the dwellings of the future, from the fantastical to the [...]

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5 Ways to Recycle Used Electronics (and make extra money!)

November 8, 2012 11:24 AM0 comments
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Advancements in technology are great for gadget-lovers, but tough on the environment. Now that iPhone 5 is out, what happens to replaced iPhone 4? When you’ve upgraded your TV to an LED model, what do you do with that old LCD screen? Many electronics, like TVs, computer monitors, and household [...]

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Your Shoes Could Be Killing You

November 6, 2012 11:57 AM0 comments
Your Shoes Could Be Killing You

How long has it been since you kicked your shoes off and went barefoot in the grass? Does that idea sound silly, maybe even irresponsible? In our modern, hyper-busy world, the praise goes to the one who wears the most expensive shoes, not to the free soul who doesn’t wear [...]

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QBotix: Mobile robotic system to cut costs of solar power

September 4, 2012 9:51 PM0 comments
QBotix: Mobile robotic system to cut costs of solar power

Industrial solar energy may seem like a great concept in theory. But the costs of set-up and operation have many companies shying away from the technology. However, there’s a new company that is helping to reduce operating costs by bringing the power of robotics to the solar industry. Today, California-based [...]

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ECO PS4 Concept

July 17, 2012 8:15 PM2 comments
ECO PS4 Concept

It has become standard practice among console makers to rush out a next generation console in order to keep pace with competitors. These initial releases are playable and important updates from the previous generation consoles, but they are often not as refined as they could be. The PS3, for example, [...]

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Is cloud computing green?

July 14, 2012 1:12 PM0 comments
Is cloud computing green?

At first glance it might be easy to consider that cloud computing is green. The name evokes nature, for a start, but beyond that one might immediately think to saving paper for print outs (as you can access your data anywhere), or not needing power hungry, constantly on servers in [...]

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How Green is the iPad? – Infographic

July 10, 2012 10:45 AM0 comments
How Green is the iPad? – Infographic

In recent weeks Apple has been making headlines for its policies pertaining to the environment – however not all of them are good. First, Apple touted the energy efficiency of its new iPad, promoting that it costs just $1.36 to charge an iPad for a year. But just yesterday, it [...]

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