Always at the forefront of emerging technologies (I’m a firm believer that the first established moon base will be established by these search engine legends) Google has taken a step towards helping consumers track their electricity use with some sophisticated new (and free) software tools. Dan Reicher, Director for Climate Change and Energy Initiatives Google, [...]

Approximately 10 percent of all power used in an average home goes to TVs and black boxes. It was with this number in mind that the California Energy Commission decided that something must be done and proposed a new set of standards for TV power consumption. The new standards would insist that by 2011 TV [...]

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to end the ban on the funding of stem cell research. The ban, which was instituted by former President George W. Bush, prevented any federal funds from contributing to embryonic stem cell research. Obama sited a recent Gallup poll that showed that 52 percent of Americans favored [...]

Dot Eco LLC has partnered with Al Gore and The Alliance for Climate Protection to secure the .eco domain, donating the revenue to environmental charities and sciences. Dot Eco LLC will be applying for the .eco top level domain through the ICANN gTLD application process in late 2009 and we’ll soon start seeing URLs that [...]

The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory that we reported on yesterday which launched today has apparently failed. The observatory satellite launched on schedule at 4:55am ET this morning in California but the fairing, which is the structure designed to protect the Orbiting Carbon Observatory as it blasts through the atmosphere, failed to separate from the satellite. [...]

To better calculate the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere NASA is launching a new satellite tomorrow. The precise measurements of the Orbital Carbon Observatory will help scientists better understand the natural processes as well as the human impact of carbon dioxide levels. This should provide more reliable predictions of how green house gases [...]

Here’s a scary thought: More than 40 percent of homes in North America have video game console systems and many of those video games systems remain on all the time. Video game systems use up 16 billion kilowatt-hours annually, enough to power a major city for year. An Xbox or a Playstation 3 left on [...]

California is trying to tackle the energy problems created by ever-increasing sizes of energy sucking plasma TV’s at the source. By 2011, legislators are hoping that all but the most efficient televisions will be unavailable in California. A plasma screen TV uses 300 times the energy of a tube TV. If it passes, the first [...]

New methods of harnessing energy are now being tested in two busy Toyko subway stations. Special flooring tiles have been installed in front of ticket turnstiles, and each time a passenger steps on the tiles, they cause a small vibration that’s stored as energy. Over 400,000 people go throught these turnstiles each day. The energy [...]

If the new Apple laptop could talk it would be screaming from the nearest rooftop because Apple REALLY wants you to know that their latest is “the greenest MacBook ever!!” Well, actually, hanging on to your current laptop is even greener. That’s what I’ll be doing. The eco-specs on this MacBook are the following: The [...]