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Slowly turning green

Bill Thompson on August 12, 2008 | 179 Views
  An interesting survey into attitudes towards green computing from CDW's ITMonitor shows that while the majority of US "IT decision makers" think green issues are important, there are many ...

ECO-ICONIC products coming our way

Laurent Haug on May 6, 2008 | 827 Views
TrendWatching thinks that we're entering the eco-iconic era, where people buy green products because it brings them more points on the social ladder. That's a pretty powerful driver ...

New energy source discovered….

Mat Feakins on March 27, 2008 | 1122 Views
As our petro-economies lights go out we are forced to look at as many of the different options of renewable energy that are available. This weeks Anglo French nuclear talks ...

The Offline Cost of our Online Lives

Bill Thompson on March 23, 2008 | 827 Views
This is my latest column for the BBC News website, where I write about technology issues each week.  I thought it might be of interest to fellow wattwatters. The next ...

Nigeria 'energy savings day'......

Franklin Ossuetta on March 2, 2008 | 1026 Views
This is a pretty hard scenario to imagine.....or picture. The situation in Nigeria is so poor that we hardly have enough for domestic or industrial consumption....to even think ...

UK energy saving day...uses more energy

Jonathan Buck on February 29, 2008 | 996 Views
Perhaps the role of the individual in making a difference in improving electrical energy efficiency is a lost cause, or is it about who pushes out the message? Take this ...

Electricity is vital

Pippa Rojo on January 31, 2008 | 783 Views
The China Daily reported yesterday that two more people had died in attempting to assure transmission of electricity to the Chinese population besieged with snow and ice. That Premier Wen ...

Smart Meters

Cons Ortheil on January 21, 2008 | 1022 Views
I come from a part of Australia which has very old meters which will soon be upgraded. I was wondering if anyone on this forum is able to discuss smart ...

Are you prone to green compensation?

Jonathan Buck on January 15, 2008 | 792 Views
Just read an excellent blog from Paul Horrell on the BBC's new site www.loveearth.com . He makes the point of individuals green compensating one way (say, buying a ...

Green Buildings Video Stories in Australia

Christian Bertolini on January 10, 2008 | 881 Views
We are a video and multimedia production company (Pumpkin Productions) and we are producing a website ( www.doyougreen.com ) about Green Stories in Australia, and in other parts of the ...

What about the risks of the efficient light bulbs?

Juan Ignacio Galimberti on January 8, 2008 | 1135 Views
Well, I have been reading about that, but there isn’t enough information about the risk of this efficiency bulb kin relationship with the final disposal and the hazardous when ...

New website SmartPlanet has launched

Ethical Angel on November 6, 2007 | 789 Views
 Another green website with promise has launched!   www.SmartPlanet.com Their description is here: " SmartPlanet is your one-stop guide to creating a smarter, greener and fairer planet. We're bringing ...

Tim O'Reilly wonders at the profligacy of US electricity consumption

Bill Thompson on November 3, 2007 | 866 Views
A lovely little post from publisher and general Web guru Tim O'Reilly over at the O'Reilly Radar blog. He is visiting Sicily and wonders at how different it ...

New US site tells you to "get energy active"

Jonathan Buck on October 25, 2007 | 796 Views
Just added to the US wikiwatts entries ( wattwatt.com/wikiwatts ), check out this site (getenergyactive.org) which is backed by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI). As it says: "Electricity. It ...

Local "grassroots" competitions

Laila Briquet-Mosig on October 11, 2007 | 809 Views
Getting the individual to realize whan impact small changes in their lives can have on energy consumption is not easy.  Grassroots competitions can inspire people to make changes in their ...