energy conservation
The European Commission today launched its new BUILD UP Web portal as a tool for sharing information on reducing energy use of buildings. The site’s content will be regularly updated and enhanced by users themselves to cover a wide range of good practices in energy reduction, as well as
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HP is offering PC users a downloadable desktop widget that tracks their cumulative energy savings from turning off idle computers when not in use. The widget is part of a broader campaign called Power To Change, which aims to encourage personal computer users around the world to make behavioural changes
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Forty-four institutions of higher education will share a portion £25 million from a Revolving Green Fund to help them “radically transform their approaches to energy consumption and reducing emissions.” The fund is jointly offered by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Salix Finance. More than 100 educational
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Wow. We’re little short of amazed at today’s comments from Richard Dixon, head of WWF Scotland, who says that willful energy-wasters should be prosecuted by the Government. As reported in The Herald, Dixon was speaking on BBC Radio Scotland when he called energy-wasting an “anti-social act” that should
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Data centers could cut their energy use by as much as 75 percent by putting idle servers to sleep when they’re not being used, say researchers at the University of Michigan. The research team plans to present a paper on the subject next Tuesday at a conference in Washington,
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In yet another example of how we’re increasingly turning to dribs-and-drabs conservation to save money and energy, TreeHugger reports on how small towns across Germany are instituting on-call street lighting. Here’s how it works: street lights are left off by default at night. When someone plans to step
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In a world that’s increasingly looking under every imaginable rock for a new potential energy source, can it come as a surprise that cremation could become a community heating source? That’s the case in the Swedish town of Halmstad, where cemetery operators have found a silver energy lining
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