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The Most Energy Efficient States In The Nation

A new report details which state governments are doing the most to be energy efficient. Hey, Alabama's not such a fuel-guzzling planet-killer anymore!READ»

Kill The Myth: Incandescent Bulbs Are Not Banned

Don't like the government telling you to buy a CFL? There's no need to take up arms. There's still an incandescent bulb for you. It's just a little more efficient.READ»

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New Shock Absorbers Save The Shocking Amount Of Energy Wasted By Bumps In The Road

Most of the energy in that expensive gas you put in your car is wasted as heat, but new shocks could take some of that wasted energy and put it back into the car, giving you way more bang for the burn.READ»

The Race For The Most Efficient Server Is Turning Tech Companies Into Power Companies

Uploading your music to the cloud isn't as simple as you might think. As more data is stored online, the cloud takes more and more energy to maintain, forcing companies to get into the business of getting power as cheaply as possible.READ»

CEOs See Sustainability As Engine For Growth But Industry Sectors Split On Priorities

Despite an overall trend towards seeing sustainability as an opportunity for value creation and business success, there are major differences in perceptions of sustainability between CEOs in different industry sectors, as well as gaps in the level of integration of sustainability achieved in their companies. READ»

Work Smart: 5 Easy To-Dos That Keep Your To-Do List Healthy

Are flurries of grubbed-up sticky notes and notebooks full of unfinished to-do lists giving you heart palpitations? Amber Mac shares one simple app and five easy to-do list habits that will keep you running at your most productive, and not just in the short term. READ»

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The Container Cure: New Massive Cargo Ships Spew Much Less CO2

Container ships are huge polluters--it's hard to make thousands of tons of slow moving steel cut through the oceans efficiently, after all. But now entering the harbor are new vessels that can carry 16% more cargo, while releasing 20% less CO2.READ»

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Will Obama's Ambitious Energy Efficiency Plan Really Save Businesses $40 Billion a Year?

The Better Buildings Initiative, announced today, aims to improve efficiency by 20% in under 10 years.READ»

Richard Branson's Carbon War Room Takes Aim at 60,000 Ships

Sir Richard Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group and visionary industrialist, has decided to keep tabs on the carbon emissions of the gargantuan shipping industry.READ»

SolarMagic Raises Solar Panel Efficiency by 20%

Solar panels suffer from being an imperfect tech, and differences between the quality of each individual cell can even affect how efficiently the whole thing works. Enter National Semiconductor, with smart solar optimizer chips.The ...READ»

Philips' New Green 12-Watt LED Bulbs Could Replace 425 Million 60-Watt Energy Hogs

Philips has just unveiled what it's calling the "world's first LED replacement for [the] most common household bulb," taking aim at the aging, inefficient 60W gizmo that's been lighting our homes since forever. This is the future of ...READ»

Toshiba Snuffs Out Old Light Bulb Production, Embraces the Shiny LED Future

Toshiba hauled the gate shut for the final time on its incandescent light bulb factory today--ending a production run that dates back to 1890. The reason? The eco-unfriendly, inefficient, thermo-luminescent tech has had its day. ...READ»

Facebook Buys Dedicated Data Center, Could Servers Be Far Behind?

The Pineville, Oregon data center will run green, and could create a secure environment for Facebook to test server architecture.READ»

Nonsense At Work

Lazy, your country needs you:Listen up, people, it’s time to slow down.  It’s that time of year when it is okay to be lazy.  Retailers please ignore this message.The rest of you, it is time to practice being lazy.  ...READ»

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Miami Drivers Choose the Honda Insight for Efficiency and Price

With the growing competition of hybrid vehicles on the market, it gets hard for consumers to choose which is the right fuel-efficient car for them.  Every hybrid seems to offer something different- style, design, extras ect… ...READ»

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CE Association Ruffles Feathers at the Mere Hint of Limiting Flat-Screen Sales

Ed. Note: This piece has been edited significantly from its original version to reflect factual inaccuracies related to exactly what the California Energy Commission has proposed. We regret the earlier error. The Consumer ...READ»

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Is Management Efficiency A Myth?

The current recession has produced a flood of management "experts" and many leaders of organizations whose only strategy for dealing with the downturn in the economy is cutting costs, layoffs and more efficiency based strategies. The mantra for business for much of the last century has been operational efficiency. So leaders look for ways to cut costs and make the operations lean and mean. Yet much of the rationale for and evidence supporting efficiency as a key management strategy is questionable.READ»

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Smart Speed Bumps Punish You for Speeding

Speed bumps can be hard on old cars (and on sleeping passengers). The bumps are especially popular in Mexico, where rampant police corruption means that many speeders get off scot-free. At the same time, speed bumps have the ...READ»

Nonsense At Work

Efficiency can cost too much:Labor day has come and gone and I worry about work.  Not only the lack of it but also how the narrow focus on cost control has cheapened it.Many people think that the point of efficiency is to reduce ...READ»