There’s no doubt that fuel prices, especially in California, are causing people to re-think how they get to work. Tension in key parts of the world where we get our oil from is making it obvious that they aren’t going to be going down any time soon, either. Carpooling, SMART trains and other alternative transportation [...]
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Instant Remote Assistance!
“Instant Remote Assistance” is a cornerstone of our business. With a call and a simple download, we’ll be able to log on and assist you in a matter of minutes. You don’t have to have anyone come out to your home or business, and you don’t have to take your computer anywhere. It’s safe, easy [...]
EPA declares CO2 a health hazard, starts regulation outline
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, a hazard to human health and to our environment. By doing this, the EPA is building the legal foundation behind mandating how businesses such as energy plants create energy, and how auto makers manufacture their products. As well as taking care of [...]
Irvine School District spearheads the green revolution
http://www.green-technology.org/green_technology_magazine/fastrack.htm – Orange County’s Irvine School District is leading a heroic front with going green. The green revolution has just begun, yet Irvine has spearheaded the methodologies and principals of energy conservation, sustainable building and, most importantly, educating their staff and students. From the article: “It’s exciting too, because kids know – I’ve seen a [...]
LNS and Linux thin clients gaining momentum on the net
http://tinyurl.com/lyw3bm – It seems as though the Internet chatter is getting louder regarding how we implemented 7 successful Linux thin client labs in schools across Santa Rosa. The post (above) details and comments on the featured Linux.com article we got just a few weeks ago, wishing schools success and more deployments in the future. From [...]
Green Computers, Green Schools
By: Jordan Erickson Logical Networking Solutions — Part I: History When I was growing up, the student technology infrastructure at Spring Creek Elementary consisted of three Apple IIe computers in the main library, with dual floppy disk drives and green monochrome monitors. Every day, the same few kids, including me, gathered around them during recess [...]
Google Gets Goats to Mow Lawn at Company Headquarters
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518820,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/personaltechnology Last week, Google brought in a herd of goats to mow the grass on its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters rather than using lawnmowers.The company said that it wanted to take a more “low-carbon” approach with the goats reducing the company’s contribution to air and noise pollution. The cost of hiring the 200-some goats is [...]
Leaving computers on overnight = $2.8 billion a year
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/130078 Admittedly I don’t think much about it at all. I leave my laptop running overnight because I know it’ll take five minutes or more to get things going in the morning — not just booting up, but launching the various apps I start the day with, downloading my overnight email, filtering out the spam, [...]
Going Green: What You Can Do
These days, you can’t hop in your car, turn on your TV, get online or even shop for groceries without hearing or seeing something about ‘going green’. It has quickly become commonplace for businesses and homes alike to practice better energy efficiency, waste reduction and air quality management with everything we do. And for good [...]
Intel and HP team up to roll out Green PCs for the enterprise
http://www.crn.com/hardware/205917390 – Hewlett Packard and Intel Corp. are working together to announce the roll-out of a new low-power, environmentally friendly PC for the enterprise. Among the features of these new PCs are solid-state drives (SSD) that reduce power usage over traditional hard disks by using flash-based memory chips instead of spinning magnetic platters and other [...]