Tangent Evergreen 17 Green Touch Screen PC

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Tangent introduced a new green computer called the Evergreen 17. The system is a slim, all-in-one design that uses a touch screen and has very low power requirements. The system uses a Via Eden 1.0GHz CPU that requires no fan.

It can also be optioned with a faster ViaC7 1.50GHz CPU with a low noise fan. The Evergreen 17 runs on Windows XP Pro or Windows XP Embedded. A Linux version is also available. The computer can be ordered with SSDs from 1GB to 64GB of storage capacity. Normal HDDs with 60GB to 250GB are available as well. The system starts at $1195. Read more

Posted on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:02:15 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Amazon Green Product Shopping Guide

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Amazon.com has launched Amazon Green, a cross-category program that includes a list of products that customers have selected as the best green products offered by Amazon.com and a place for customers to discover Amazon's entire green product selection.

The Amazon Green product guide includes obvious stuff like Reusable Grocery Totes, energy saving bulbs, and Seventh Generation Bathroom Tissue. Read more

Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Web Pioneer Gross revitalized by Green Energy

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By Nichola Groom

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In 1973, when Bill Gross was 15 and cars were lined up at every gas station in Southern California, the aspiring engineer wanted to do something about spiking energy prices.
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Posted on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:31:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dell Launches Vostro 410 Green PC

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Dell has launched its latest Vostro PC for small businesses called the Vostro Energy Smart 410 Desktop. Dell claims the little PC saves up to 47% in annual energy costs. The little machine starts at $599 and is available today in North and South America as well as the UK.

Dell will roll the machine out in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa in early June. The machine has a larger tower and can accommodate up to 3TB of local storage and memory. The system has six expansion slots and available Intel Core 2 Quad processors and 512MB graphics cards and more. Read more

Posted on Thu, 29 May 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Tech Execs see green Profits at Work and Home

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By Michele Gershberg

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Technologies that help businesses use power more efficiently should become a bigger money-maker in the next decade, even if surging demand for data means overall energy use in the tech sector will still rise.
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Posted on Thu, 22 May 2008 21:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung Announces 1TB EcoGreen HDD

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Samsung announced today a new eco hard drive with lots of storage capacity. The Samsung F1 EcoGreen hard drive has 1TB of storage space and provides a 15% power savings compared to other low-power 1TB drives.

The EcoGreen drive spins at 5400 RMP and uses the 3Gbps SATA interface and a 32MB buffer. The drive uses platters that each holds 334GB to reduce the number of parts required to operate the drive and boost overall performance. Samsung says the drive will be available in Q2 2008 for $199. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 May 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Ugly Betty dumps Hollywood for Gotham Green

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By Borys Kit

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After simmering for the past couple of years, the issue of California's lack of production subsidies boiled over last week when ABC said that its hit series "Ugly Betty" will pack its makeup kit for the greener pastures of New York.
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Posted on Thu, 15 May 2008 03:19:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

IBM launches Green Energy Tools for Data Centers

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By Philipp Gollner

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp on Wednesday launched tools to reduce computer energy consumption as IBM hopes to boost its business of selling power-saving technologies.
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Posted on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:25:53 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Top 10 Music Acts going green with Compost and Biodiesel

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Going green has become a focus in recent years for many artists who are trying to help save the environment with everything from carbon offsets, to giving away autographed compost bins, to philanthropy.
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Posted on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:52:44 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

IBM Hydro-Cluster Green Supercomputer

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IBM has unveiled a new supercomputer called Hydro-Cluster that uses water to cool down the device and reduce overall energy consumption.

With this new technology, data centers using Hydro-Cluster supercomputers can reduce their energy consumption by 40% and use 80% fewer air conditioners.
Hydro-Cluster uses water-chilled copper plates above each of its microprocessors that continuously remove heat from the electronics. IBM researchers say they are also working on computers that would allow water to go directly inside the chip. Once inside, the water can be routed out of the computer and pumped into the heating system for re-use. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Apr 2008 03:01:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Still mail Bills? Study says go Green, go Online

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Think your family going green won't make a difference? Wrong, says a U.S. study released on Thursday that shows one household ditching paper statements for Web transactions would save 24 square feet of forest a year.
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Posted on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

WD Caviar RE2 GreenPower 1TB HDD Review

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Hothardware published a review of the Western Digital Caviar and RE.2 GreenPower 1TB hard drive.

Quote from the review: "In addition to their large capacities, these drives offer a number of proprietary features designed to lower their power consumption and acoustic profiles, like IntelliPower, IntelliSeek, IntelliPark, and in the RE.2's case RAFF (Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward). Read more

Posted on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

World’s First Green Clothes Dryer

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The world’s first green dryer was launched recently at the International Builders’ Show. The dryer promises new technology that can speed clothes drying time up to 41% and reduces the energy consumption of the dryer up to 50%.

The dryer is the second most energy consuming appliance in the home and aren’t required to abide by energy standards. The technology is named the Dryer Miser and will be displayed publically for the first time at the show. Read more

Posted on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:40:56 CST | by Shane McGlaun

''Green'' Robot self-propels through Sea

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A seagoing glider that uses heat energy from the ocean to propel itself is the first "green" robot to explore the undersea environment, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. Read more

Posted on Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:19:02 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Intel is the Biggest Buyer of Green Power in America

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Intel announced today that it would purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy. This announcement will make Intel the single largest buyer of green power in the United States according to the EPA.

The purchase of the renewable energy put Intel at the top of the EPA’s latest Green Power Partners top 25 list and garnered the top spot on the EPA’s Fortune 500 Green Power Partners list. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:34:23 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Eco-conscious Sundance turns deeper Shade of Green

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By Jane Clark

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - When former Vice President Al Gore premiered documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, he inspired not only greater awareness of global warming, but the general greening of this top movie event. Read more

Posted on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:53:10 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pink, Green, Blue Asus Eee 2G PC ship in time for Holidays

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The spring colored Asus Eee 2G PCs are already shipping and you can still get them before the 24th as last minute Christmas gifts.

The Asus Eee 2G PC in Sky Blue, Plush Pink, and Lush Green was expected for early 2008. Coming as a bit of surprise, retailers NewEgg and J & R have this colorful low-end Eee PC in stock and ready to ship for $299.99. Read more

Posted on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:50:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

GreenPlug to show Universal Power Protocol Chip at CES 2008

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GreenPlug will show the first environmentally-friendly DC power hub at the CES 2008.

GreenPlug will show an Universal Power Protocol (UPP) Chip called the GreenPlug.
GreenPlug wants to get rid of the device-specific external DC power supplies and replace it with an intelligent universal one. To optimize the power consumption of any connected device to GreenPlug, the power supply is 'talking' to the gadget via a protocol called GreenTalk. Read more

Posted on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Greenpeace Clash of the Consoles

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Greenpeace mobilizes against video game console makers Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. Greenpeace argues that consoles contain toxic chemicals and can contribute to the massive growth of electronic waste that's often dumped, causing widespread environmental pollution and health problems for unprotected workers.

Greenpeace wants Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft to clean up their products by eliminating hazardous substances and to take back and recycle their products responsibly once they become obsolete. Read more

Posted on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:27:56 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Green Asus Eee PC 4G Surf appears and ships

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An unannounced green Asus Eee PC 4G Surf is apparently shipping in Taiwan. We reported about a spring colored Asus Eee 2G Surf to be hitting the shelves in early 2008. A colored 4G Surf Eee PC was unknown.

Two Taiwan based sellers offer the green Asus Eee PC 4G (4G SSD and 512MB RAM) on the German eBay. Read more

Posted on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:31:19 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nokia Siemens sees Profit from "greener" Networks

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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Siemens Networks aims to cut the energy consumption of some of its mobile base stations by up to 40 percent by 2010 in a move that should also boost profits, the telecoms network group said on Tuesday. Read more

Posted on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:49:56 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr