Category Archives: green
Google UK, now in black (today only)
Google in the UK has “turned its lights out” today in support of Earth hour. Nice. But the best thing, Blackle is most definitely put in its place for once and all.
As to why we don’t do this permanently – it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of [...]
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Honda: Plant this letter/20 years left
As with I suspect most people I’m suffering from a slight bit of green overload. Not that I don’t think it’s important (it is), it’s just everywhere and my brain is doing the natural thing and starting to filter. Amongst all the noise though comes this from Honda/Inferno. A really simple idea that does the [...]
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Live hugging and other green things
Been meaning to write about Do The Green Thing for ages and now the guys over there have given me a really good reason to.
Right now, there’s some Do The Green Thing people cooped up in a cold room waiting for people like you and me to go there and give them ‘hugs’. Using [...]
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Blackle
Looks as though this launched a while back, but just been sent it and thought I’d share just in case you hadn’t seen it. Nice idea. We are becoming more accountable for every single aspect of our lives. Displaying white pixels joins the list.
“When your screen is white – Eg; an empty word page, [...]
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Wonder what happens to all the turf?
And all the animals that temporarily set up home there?
On a related note . . . there should be much more of this in London. Everyone likes green stuff. Especially in grey places.
Yahoo! to go fully carbon neutral by end of 2007
Not the first but still a pretty major commitment by Yahoo!.
Slightly better news than being sued or announcing bad results.
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Honda Civic GX nudges Toyota Prius off top green spot
Celebrities around the world will need to have a rethink. The ACEE has published the Top 12 greenest vehicles of 2007 and the Prius isn’t top. Some good news for Honda as it fights to defend its decision to go without sponsored branding on its latest F1 car as being based on its desire to [...]
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Meet (the new) Green Thing