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Science in the news-letter #13
Guests in the “Standing Hat” room at Cottage Lodge in the village of Brockenhurst, can now keep fit, watch their favourite programmes, and do their bit for the environment using the novel device. The room also features low-energy lighting, solar panels and a wood-burning stove to produce hot water, and a low-flow toilet and shower to reduce water use. The publicity also boasts that environmentally-friends paints and low-impact building materials were used throughout, while the room’s bed, bedside table, dressing table, wardrobe and mirror were crafted by a local tree surgeon from a single beech tree which fell in the village. Christina Simons, the hotel’s owner, has spent nearly eight years turning it into a green retreat, but explained how the 360-year-old property has recycling in its heritage. “I focused on three things when constructing the room: reducing waste, minimising pollution and using resources with the lowest impact possible.
Hotel installs bicycle-powered television
By Maggie Koerth-Baker at 11:45 am Tuesday, May 8 The video, made by Mae Ryan for Los Angeles public radio KPCC, traces trash from a burger lunch to its ultimate fate in a landfill. It reminds me of those great, old Sesame Street videos where you got to see what goes on inside crayon factories and peanut butter processing plants. Which is to say that it is awesome.
Behind the scenes of a city: Trash in L.A.
Dry Your Hands Quickly and Efficiently with the Shake and Fold Technique
Don’t forget geeks, by using only 1 paper towel per day per person to dry your hands, you’ll be making your contribution to help conserve over 571 million pounds of paper towel products each year, and that’s in the U.S. only! The secret? Shake and fold, my friends, shake and fold.Save Water Save Money has joined with the UK's Water Companies to offer a number of FREE water and energy saving products that could save on your utility bills every year. To get started, simply select your Water Company from the list below and we'll take you to their order page.
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The company’s CIO Pieter Schoehuijs said that even according to its “fairly conservative assumptions” AkzoNobel is saving 50,000 working hours a year based on 4,000 staff in the video sessions - and 25 tonnes of CO2. “We have achieved the estimate we put in the business case but more importantly we’ve saved employee hours and CO2 emissions. Not only is it financially attractive but from a sustainability and values perspective it’s a no brainer,” he said.
Videoconferencing project “is a no-brainer” says CIO
Pollution-Absorbing Paint Cleaning Up the Air in Manila
Manila is one of the top five dirtiest cities when it comes to air pollution. Residents have high rates of asthma and air pollution is responsible for about 4,000 deaths a year . The city is trying to tackle the problem with an innovative solution -- paint.
Infographic: The true cost of an iPhone | TechRepublic
April 16, 2012, 12:19 PM PDT Takeaway: What are you willing to pay Apple’s smartphones? This infographic, developed my Madeline Harris, outlines the true cost of an iPhone.Essential guide to carbon and energy management - 17 Apr 2012 - Computing Feature
The concept of green IT – to help reduce the energy consumption of an organisation’s IT infrastructure – should be familiar. However, beyond efficient datacentres and power-managed client estates, large companies are now turning to IT to manage energy consumption and report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the enterprise. Computerised energy management is nothing new; it’s been applied to industrial machinery and building controls for years. But there is also a growing trend for elevating it above the level of individual plant or buildings to provide enterprise-wide consolidated energy and emission reporting and control.
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The Open University (OU)—which specialises in distance learning—is the biggest university in the United Kingdom (U.K.). It needed to reduce costs and improve communication among its 5,000 office-based academic and administrative staff, giving them access to features such as instant messaging and presence awareness. The OU is deploying Microsoft Lync 2010, which will save the university around £2 million over the next five years, as well as substantially cutting travel and subsistence costs.
“To have success in sustainability – you just have to make it sufficiently hard for yourself that it becomes easy”. This was the advice from Kirsten Aggersborg , the director of the super sustainable Hotel Axel in Copenhagen. I think there is some real value to this observation, and this is no where more true than with the Danish Presidency of the European Union Council. By June 30, when the European Union Presidency 2012 Denmark concludes, the Danish Foreign Ministry Logistics team will have supported the organization of 100 meetings serving 15,000 total participants while meeting criteria of the ISO 20121 event sustainability management system .
Behind the scenes of a sustainable EU Presidency « Less Conversation More Action
Inefficient cooling results in unnecessarily high levels of energy consumption. At Strathclyde the entire Graham Hills server room is continuously cooled; cool air is not restricted to cold aisles, nor is it directed to identified hot spots. Another problem at Strathclyde is that this server room is not nearly used to full capacity. These two factors would suggest that simple improvements could be made fairly easily. However, things are not that straight forward.
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Here is a picture to the right asking people not to dive due to a water drought but honestly having no water is no joke and effects almost everyone. Due to climate changes you will find that there is more water in some places and not as much in other places as shown in this picture as an example. In the Plumbing industry the manufactures have all got targets to hit. For example shower heads are being specially made in the way we wash and the amount of water we use, toilet cisterns are using 5 litres rather than 7, 8 or even 9 litres of water. There are always ways you can save water.