Tag: CARBONFOOTPRINT

E-mail may save a lot of paper, but according to the Guardian, our electronic missives do have some impact on the environment. Although authors Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark acknowledge that e-mails will never probably comprise a major component of our energy consumption, they claim that the energy required to send and receive our messages can quickly add up. According to their estimates, a ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... We've previously written about what could now be considered "antique" game consoles, along with their cartridges, fetching auction prices that put our yearly salaries to shame. Well, now some guy has sold a copy of a hard-to-find Atari game called 'Air Raid' for $31,600. Apparently the game, one of only thirteen known copies, kind ...

The business of guilt removal has been around for a lot longer than Sally Struthers's quavering-voiced pleas for the children and Jim Bakker's patronizing smiles. Now, the San Francisco International Airport has joined those ranks with its three brand new Climate Passport kiosks. In exchange for good old U.S. greenbacks, these ATMs of environmental righteousness grant a passenger-patron a ...

Given the waste generated by production and packaging, it should be obvious that purchasing actual CDs creates far more strain on the environment than just downloading music. According to the New York Times, though, some people felt the need to finance a study on the matter, anyway. In a study funded by both Microsoft and Intel, academicians at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University ...

While it may seem that things done in cyberspace exist in a bubble, they're not; computer-related stuff leaves its mark as well. Along those lines, here's a troubling fact: performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate roughly the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle of water. Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross is completing a study on the environmental ...

What if it's not enough to have your own private suite (see image above) on your flight from New York to the Middle East? Leave it to Emirates Airlines, out of Dubai, to top its own first-class offering. The airline has announced its new Airbus A380 jets will be the first in commercial use to provide first-class passengers with an in-flight shower. Sounds like a nice, refreshing way to improve ...