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• Old Lamps Transformed into Oil Lamps

  
  Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News — Authority: 479
  Everyone knows how vital it is to properly dispose of those old incandescent bulbs since they pose a health hazard if you are not careful. But if you think of it, why bother crushing them and emit all those harmful toxins if you can revert it to something useful like perhaps an oil lamp? This is perhaps one of the ...
  5 days ago

• Newspaper Clippings: Hang your clothes outside all winter, I say

  
  ... It Strikes Me Funny by G. Harrison — Authority: 434
  And if anybody complains, fire off a frozen puck in their direction. That’s my advice, at any rate, to those people across America who are facing a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice of hanging laundry on clotheslines. I’m not joking about the fact there are still North Americans who ...
  1 week ago

• Light Bulb Bud Vases

  
  Kersti.com — Authority: 123
  Over at Esprit Cabane there is this great tutorial on how to covert your old light bulbs into the cutest bud vases.  So amazingly simple yet effective! I can just see them now filled with tatted goodies on a tree. There is also another idea to turn them into salt and paper shakers.
  1 week ago

• New pictures of Iceotope Liquid Cooled Blades

  
  The Hot Aisle — Authority: 485
  Iceotope Unveils First Modular Liquid-Immersion Cooled Blade ServerSupercomputing 2009, Portland Oregon; 17th November 2009: Iceotope (www.iceotope.com) today launched its new liquid-cooled server technology. The system is believed to be the first to use modular “liquid immersion” of the server components and is ...
  1 week ago

• Greenwash or Greenbacks?

  
  The Hot Aisle — Authority: 485
  Greenwash or Greenbacks? – an eWEEK Europe WebinarWhat is the real motivation behind the Green Data Centre movement?  Saving the planet…  or saving money? …or keeping one step ahead of possible regulations, and saving yourself from a world of legal trouble?Readers of the Hot Aisle will already know that moves ...
  1 week ago

• Data Centre Dilemmas

  
  The Hot Aisle — Authority: 485
  I recently chaired a very interesting panel debate and discussion Hosted By BLADE Network Technologies in London.The panel was made up of:Harkeeret (Harqs) Singh, Global Head Data Centre Energy Optimisation, Thomson ReutersFinlay MacLeod, VP IT Infrastructure, EMEA, First Data CorpCharles Ferland, VP of EMEA, BLADE ...
  1 week ago

• Go Green Ideas For Your Holiday Party

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By Erin K Kennedy ‘Tis the season when our thoughts turn to gathering with our friends and family and celebrating the time of year. That doesn’t mean it’s time to throw out your ‘green’ sensibilities and splurge on unhealthy foods and non eco-friendly product for the sake of togetherness. Here are some ...
  1 week ago

• How to Get a new Lens for Free

  
  Christian Fletcher Photography — Authority: 130
  The time is 1.22am, Sunday morning, I can’t sleep. I have too many thoughts going through my head. One of them is this, a way to get something for free. My wife and I really think about our environment and the future we are creating for our kids. We struggle with the conflict of having a certain level of greenness ...
  1 week ago

• Innovation obsoletes the data centre

  
  The Hot Aisle — Authority: 485
  Next week, Iceotope will announce that it has developed, patented and manufactured an extreme IT equipment cooling solution.  The solution tackles the problems of cooling servers in data centres all the way from the actual source of the heat – at the processor and memory component level – to its final ...
  2 weeks ago

• sustainable name tags

  
  Going Green @your library — Authority: 107
  I just attended an event where – instead of plastic or sticker name tags and using markers – we were given pieces of recycled card stock (you could use old card catalog cards) attached with a small binder clip and string.The string was already tied in a circle and then we simply looped it through on edge of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Goodbye Old Site, Hello Awesome New One

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 110
  Back in early 2008 I quietly panicked trying to come up with a name for my new blog or "column" as I told people of a certain age. How about Super Duper Sustainable something-or-other? With the deadline closing in, Super Duper Sustainable Tech Stuff it was. Now, fortunately, its time to shed the old unwieldy blog ...
  2 weeks ago

• Building a Better Mosquito Trap

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 110
  UC Davis scientists who have been sussing out mosquitoes’ sniffers have made a discovery that could lead to really killer bug traps. Chemical ecologists Walter Leal and Zain Syed identified a chemical called nonanal in humans—and, crucially, birds—that serves as a signal for the Culex species of mosquito. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Supersurface Could Shrink Power Plants

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 110
  Sounds trippy, but its true: mushrooms and lotus leaves are the inspiration for a superhydrophobic surface created by Duke University scientists that has the potential to make power plants super-efficient. "In power plants, the majority of the space is taken up by bulky condensers," says Chuan-Hua Chen , assistant ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thumbs Up to Kashless and RecycleBank

  
  Green and Clean Mom — Authority: 122
  I almost never read a press release and post it but after I read the following information I realized that to summarize all of this would be crazy and I love the cause, idea and promoting reuse! Check it out….Beginning yesterday, post or pick up any quality second-hand item on Kashless.org, and earn Points that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scaling Up Saharan Solar

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 110
  The idea has been thrown around for a while: Lets put a bunch of mirrors--the most ever!--in the desert to provide massive amounts of electricity to faraway places. A newly-formalized consortium is going to do just that, in the Sahara Desert. Twelve European businesses that form the Desertec Industrial Initiative ...
  3 weeks ago

• Traffic Control for Turtles

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 110
  Scientists have been tagging turtles for a little while to see where they go, but a new combined effort could mean fewer turtle tragedies in the open water. Juvenile loggerhead turtles, which are a threatened species, can unintentionally become bycatch on fishing vessels. In the fall, sometimes they enter water thats ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cant hurt to revisit

  
  Junkk Male RE:View — Authority: 130
  Simple, painless steps cut carbon and save money, a new study shows And such as here great places to do it. Not via endless multi-million £ awareness box-ticking campaigns from overlapping quangos with too much of our money for the sense they possess.
  4 weeks ago

• Chills or Cheer: How do you do Halloween?

  
  The BlogCatalog Community Blog — Authority: 121
  It’s Halloween again and most communities are split between those thrilled by the ghostly fear that chills the skin and those who battle hard against the dark, filling the night with the glow of candlelight, sweet treats and happy times. The BlogCatalog community is no different. While many of us are sitting at ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rounding Out Shelter Design

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 110
  Recently the winner of a shelter design contest organized by the Guggenheim Museum and Googles 3-D modeling arm SketchUp was announced--a Danish tidal sea space . But a finalists garbage-transportation shelter really captured my imagination. The Design It: Shelter Competition asked entrants to design simple ...
  4 weeks ago

• Would we miss KFC if it grilled its last chicken tomorrow?

  
  ... It Strikes Me Funny by G. Harrison — Authority: 434
  KFC is promoting the crap out of its grilled and fried chicken (5,000 US stores to soon give it away for free) but a restaurant analyst (Larry) recently said KFC’s latest performance report was disappointing. I thought, will we miss it when it’s gone? The majority of the bones in my body (82%, incl. the little ...
  4 weeks ago

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