Archive for July, 2009

Intel invests $10m to cut electricity bills (PC Advisor)

Chip giant takes stake in green computing firms Intel has invested $10 million in five companies that develop technologies to reduce electricity bills and greenhouse gas emissions in homes and data centres.

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Undergrowth fuels concern for new fire crisis (Stock & Land)

IN THE cool winter green it is easy to forget the searing bushfire breath of summer, but across Victoria, along roadsides and on forest floors, fuel for a new fire season is building up and people are nervous, angry and confused.

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There could hardly be a more appropriate barn quilt pattern for Ray and Betty Stockseth (Belmond Independent)

- “Corn and Beans” painted in maize yellow and leafy green. “It’s really a combination of our things,” Betty said. “The crops we grow on the farm and our love of everything John Deere.”

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WBKO Employees Help Out “Safety City” (WBKO Bowling Green)

Safety City is a scaled down version of Bowling Green. It has traffic lights, streets, even Bowling Green’s signature red, white, and blue water tower. The program is run completely by volunteers.

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Planet Ark (Planet Ark)

If truly green data centers are ever to become a reality, IT departments will have to feel some pain if they don’t reduce their energy use — and reap the benefits if they do. Today, though, too often, IT departments don’t even pay their own energy bills, as a recently released survey found. In order to green IT, that has to change.

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