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E-Bikes Take Off In Europe

It is no secret that many cities in Europe are bike-friendly, with ded­i­cated bike lanes, paths solely for use by bicy­clists, and gen­er­ally a higher accep­tance of bicy­cle in gen­eral traf­fic. Still, if you are a per­son of the more lazy kind, the idea to work out just to get to work or do your […]

Green Homes Sell!

Many builders attend­ing the National Green Build­ing Con­fer­ence stated that they have been able to sell sus­tain­ably built homes con­sid­er­ably faster than the tra­di­tion­ally built new homes that have been lan­guish­ing in today’s tough mar­ket. Espe­cially energy effi­ciency remains the fea­ture most impor­tant to con­sumers inter­ested in green build­ings. Good news is also that the price […]

Wind To The Rescue

Nan­tucket / Mass­a­chu­setts gets the first US off shore wind-energy farm, and many don’t like it. Ger­many switches on the “Alpha Ven­tus” wind park located in the North Sea, they cel­e­brate it.  And off the coast of Louisiana an oil spill threat­ens nature and the liveli­hood of  fish­er­men and oys­ter farm­ers. What is going on […]

Setting Goals Not Methods

In a press release today Google is said to lead the charge against tougher energy effi­ciency stan­dards for data cen­ters. Google? Is this not the com­pany tout­ing green ini­tia­tives and try­ing to not be evil? It is worth to dig a lit­tle deeper into this issue. Data cen­ters house tons of heat pro­duc­ing com­puter equip­ment, and […]

MP3 Beats CD">MP3 Beats CD

2009  Microsoft and Intel com­mis­sioned a study look­ing at envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits of dig­i­tal media com­pared to old school CD (or vinyl albums, do you still remem­ber?). Researcher at Stan­ford came to the con­clu­sion that there are energy– and CO2 sav­ings between 40% and 80% when music is dis­trib­uted dig­i­tally as com­pared to send­ing CDs. Another study […]