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Microsoft Plans to Cut Carbon Footprint 30% by 2012

It's a big deal when a major corporation pledges to cut its carbon footprint--every detail of energy and transportation use needs to be taken into account--and it's an even bigger deal when a company as large as Microsoft says ...READ»

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MiLoft is The Eco-Friendly Apartment We Should All Live in

Architects RMJM have unveiled a design for an apartment today at the Cannes MIPIM property fair that represents the eco-friendly future of apartment design. And in the best trends of innovation, MiLoft doesn't skimp on cool design ...READ»

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NASCAR Team to Clean Up its Eco-Cred, But Formula 1 Still Wins That Race

NASCAR, if you think about it, represents all that's environmentally nasty about gasoline vehicles--fuel-guzzling cars muscling their way around a track at as high a speed as possible for entertainment. Sprint Cup team Hall of Fame ...READ»

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Toyota's Seaweed Cars Take Green Design to a Whole New Level

Whether or not cars use alternative fuel engines or regular gasoline ones, their overall manufacture isn't really very green at all. But that may only be until Toyota's latest idea becomes a reality, because the car giant is ...READ»

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Is "Green IT" A Sham?

Green IT is all the rage these days, with companies like Apple, Dell, Oracle, and Microsoft touting the energy efficiency and low carbon footprints of their data centers. But is IT ever really environmentally ...READ»

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British Bishops Call for Carbon Fast During Lent

Monetary incentives and polite requests may convince some people to reduce their carbon footprint, but there's nothing that can motivate the masses quite like religion. That's why a group of British bishops -- along with the U.K.'s ...READ»

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Samsung's Blue Earth is First Solar-Powered All-Touchscreen Cellphone

Samsung's Blue Earth is the first solar-powered all-touchscreen smartphone. The device even takes energy saving a bit further with a built-in "eco-mode" system. This system sets low screen backlight brightness and duration with a ...READ»

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Top 3 Sustainability Trends for 2009

In the face of a weak dollar, mass layoffs, and the world's corporate giants floundering, what are the corporate sustainability efforts we can realistically expect from businesses in 2009? READ»

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Three Who Changed the World

It almost sounds like the beginning of a joke or tall tale. An Austrian, a Hawaiian, and a man from China got together in Beverly Hills one day… When I first envisioned a gathering of world leaders, hosted by US Governors who ...READ»

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Tire Gauges of the World - - UNITE!

Last week, Senator Obama called on American drivers to properly inflate their tires as one of many ways we can cut our energy bills and our carbon footprints simultaneously. Although this simple call to action was caught up in ...READ»

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