Go Green with Beaujolais Nouveau (2)
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CK picked up our annual supply of Beaujolais Nouveau last night at Best Cellars. I was a little taken aback when I pulled the bottles out of the bag and discovered that they were made of plastic. I’ll confess, my inner wine snob initially reared her ugly head, and at first I wondered if CK had experienced some sort of break with reality. What was he thinking?! Four bottles of plastic, screw-top wine; they couldn’t ...
Knight Rider’s KITT is a Hydrogen Electric Hybrid (16)
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The latest installment of Knight Rider was greened up for NBC’s Green is Universal week. The eco-friendly run involves select NBC shows — like the current version of Knight Rider — getting a fresh coat of green paint. Low VOC, of course! Read more of this story »
Yahoo! Search BOSS Enables Key Terms (1)
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Yahoo! Search BOSS is now allowing developers to use a feature called Key Terms. The feature is derived from technology that is used in Search Assist. Yahoo! says developers can use Key Terms to create refinement terms for their own search applications as well as creating semantic analysis or new relevancy models. In releasing Key Terms, Yahoo! is introducing a new universal parameter: "view." The Yahoo! Search blog gave the following example for a search ...
Brad Pitt Lends His Voice to e2 Transport (5)
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Image source: Season 3 e2 Transport Brad Pitt continues to lend his talent on this 3rd season e2 for their latest installment titled "Transport." Episodes begin streaming on the web November 24 and then will air on PBS later this winter. Episodes span cities across the globe and look at not just commuting but also new, sustainable ways to transport goods and services....
The cheaper the electricity the lower its carbon footprint! (1)
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Photo Credit Milton CJ I was speaking at the EventoBlog España conference on Saturday and I made the comment that electricity’s carbon footprint tends to increase as it becomes more expensive. In follow-up questions, I failed to explain well what I meant so I will attempt to do so here. Electricity pricing (on the wholesale market) is a function of supply and demand. When demand is high, electricity is expensive, when demand is low, electricity ...
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nicknich3 said:
At first this appears as one of those "well that's obvious and so what" kind of things. But on reflection it's counterintuitive since higher renewable share of portfolio tends to be associated with higher cost electricity. May be true for long term average, but not on a diurnal basis.
Does This Woman Have the Tiniest Carbon Footprint in Europe? : Ecoscraps (2)
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Joan Pick hasn’t driven a car since 1973 and has only been in a car twice since then. She hasn’t flown on an airplane since 1971. She eats only raw food, thus using no energy for cooking, and she runs everywhere. She uses electricity only for a single low-energy light and her kettle, which Pick heats water for tea and the laundry she does by hand. Pick also takes bucket baths. She doesn’t heat her ...
The Carbon Footprint of Moving Bottled Water (8)
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John-Paul Flintoff of the Times drove to Oxford and back, a total of a hundred miles, and noticed that he had a bottle of water on the seat. He wondered how much energy it took to move it. I converted the weight of the bottle (1 kilo) into pounds, and divided the distance (100 miles) into feet, using one of many online conversion sites. Then I converted the total number of foot-pounds into kilowatt hours. ...
The Carbon Footprint of Moving Bottled Water (1)
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John-Paul Flintoff of the Times drove to Oxford and back, a total of a hundred miles, and noticed that he had a bottle of water on the seat. He wondered how much energy it took to move it. I converted the weight of the bottle (1 kilo) into pounds, and divided the distance (100 miles) into feet, using one of many online conversion sites. Then I converted the total number of foot-pounds into kilowatt hours. ...
Sony 32" Flat Panel Television (1)
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______________________ First to take, gets it. _____________________ I am giving away a Sony 32" Class Bravia LCD HDTV with Digital Tuner. It has no sound, but the picture is clear and TV looks brand new. I bought it about 2 years ago. I had a warranty but it was only good for a year. I tried to sell it but no one wanted to buy a television with no sound. So I tried to get ...
Should you be a locasexual? (1)
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Slate has an interesting article about the case for giving up your long distance relationships and dating local. After all, if you're going to calculate the carbon footprint of your arugula, then flying cross-country twice a month is sort of hypocritical. Yes, even if you buy carbon offsets.The article lists several reasons, in addition to reducing your CO2 emissions, why you should date with 100 "sex miles" of your home. These benefits include becoming more ...
Change We Need (1)
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These are from the Obama rally last night that Rob ad I attended. Click photo to see larger version - I love some of the faces. And here's another, slightly different, crop of the same photo - I zoomed in more on the faces and the excitement/motion/energy of the crowd (again, click the photo to see the original size).
What, Exactly, is a Carbon Footprint? (1)
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Of course you’ve heard this term, "carbon footprint." You might just be wondering what, exactly, this is. And no, it’s not the imprint of your shoe in the ashes of a campfire. Basically, a carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere during the course of a person’s daily life. These gasses are generated as a result of the products each person uses. Turn your ...
