Myth #1: Turning lights on and off can use more energy than simply leaving them on. The Truth: Both incandescent lights and fluorescent lights should be turned off whenever they are not in use. Incandescent lights are an obvious case. Due to their inefficiency, turning off these lights is always the best [...]
17. December 2009
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Green Hospitals: How does it impact you?
By J.D’Abbraccio
The “Green” movement in hospitals has taken finally taken momentum in the United States. More and more hospitals are starting to understand the long term impact of going green. Why is that important? Did you know that the U.S. health care sector accounts for almost one tenth of the country’s carbon-dioxide emissions? A report by [...]
6. December 2009
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Being a Better, Greener, Tourist
Green is all the rage these days. Get a hybrid car, recycle, don’t waste water. Make your home more energy-efficient, install solar panels, ride a bike. Companies are selling products with less packaging, publishing annual reports on sustainability, and working to “green” their value chain. We hear “save the rainforest”, “protect the sea turtles”, and [...]
30. November 2009
Washing The World Green
Over the course of time, humanity has chosen to label many things with color, a way of categorizing and organizing the world through our eyes. White has always symbolized purity, and the chance for a clean slate. Green has become the embodiment of the earth, and a symbol of mankind’ s desire to [...]
23. November 2009
Mobile users will need longer battery life
Hichem Omezzine
Mobile usage has increased substantially over the last decade. Phones are no more simple communication devices. Mobile gaming and online browsing have rapidly invaded our cell-phones since devices’ memory capacity has increased and their graphic technology has improved. Despite this increased usage, mobile entrepreneurs have found it challenging to make money out of it. [...]
19. November 2009
A Green Shout out to Tourists
Sustainable tourism is tourism which “meets the needs of the present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing the opportunity for the future. It is envisaged as leading to management of all resources in such a way that economic, social and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled, while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological [...]
14. November 2009
Be Kind to Your Cell Phone Battery…it will pay off!
There’s a popular belief that batteries are best preserved through constant cycling. Essentially, this logic holds that battery life can be conserved through a practice of fully draining a battery, followed by full recharge. The theory holds that by failing to fully discharge before you recharge, you “fool” your battery into thinking that [...]
5. November 2009
The Role of Economic Incentives in Going Green
By: David
The tragedy of the commons is an academic theory first proposed by Garrett Hardin in the Journal of Science in 1968. The story illustrates a dilemma faced by all people when a good or resource is free to the public and therefore no individual has any incentive to maintain or properly manage its [...]
30. October 2009
The Environmental Impact of Spam Email
by Hichem Omezzine
A recent publication by McAfee suggests that an estimated 62 trillion spam emails were sent worldwide in 2008. The paper argues that this volume of spam requires an energy use of 33 billion kilo-watt hours which is equivalent to:
The electricity used in 2.4million homes in the US
GHG emissions of 3.1 million passenger [...]
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