Laying e-waste: The PC’s big cyber carbon footprint
Environmental responsibility can be a bit of a pain. For one thing, I’d love to buy a new computer but I’m having difficulty rationalizing it (and, let me tell you, I can rationalize with the best!),...
View ArticleZeroFootPrint.net: Learn how to reduce your personal carbon footprint
Green is definitely the color of the moment. Green data centers, green computing, green touring, green tea. Even geogreen, if you follow Tom Friedman. Of course, it’s not easy being green. Just watch...
View ArticleCould your heatbeat power your iPod?
It’s not quite perpetual motion — but it might be the next best thing. Dr. Steve Beeby and a team of researchers at the School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) at Southampton University in...
View ArticleBlog Action Day: Synchronize your environmental blogging and try green...
Thanks to the ever-observant Cory Doctorow (whose Eastern Standard Tribe I thoroughly enjoyed last week), I’ve discovered that today is Blog Action Day. According to the organizers over at...
View ArticleOverheard in the Tech Blogosphere: Project Blackbox = a “data center in can?”
“All told, I really like the idea of my brand new datacenter rolling in on the back of a tractor-trailer truck. It kinda reminds me of the setup the bad guys had in latest Die Hard movie. I just hope...
View ArticleVideo: IBM Rolls Out New Mainframe, the z10
John Belmont demonstrates IBM’s newest mainframe, the Z10. It has a starting price of about a million dollars. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/LN4J4mClckA" width="425" height="350"...
View ArticleJaguar and ECOphlex – Greening the data center, fast
This video from Cray takes you on a tour of the ECOphlex cooling system at work in a data center.
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