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Cisco Saving $24 Million With Packaging Diet

Photo via casers jean We're fast to post about packaging failures, which are all too common. But happily, we sometimes get to post about packaging brilliance. Cisco is giving us just such an opportunity. The company has taken up a pilot program for a packaging diet, and will see a savings of about $24 million just by getting smart and rethinking the materials and size of packaging, and the transportation of products. Check out how they're doing it, and the kind of example they're setting for other companies who are due for a rethink of how they're boxing up and sending out their g... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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SolidWorks Sustainability Software Helps Designers Make The Greenest Products (Video)

Images via SolidWorks How can designers make products that they can be sure have a minimized environmental footprint? The software they use during the design phase can make all the difference. A new tool, called SolidWorks Sustainability software shows designers the air, water, carbon, energy and disposal impact of every decision they make on every part of a product. That way, they can come up with the most environmentally friendly version of their product, without having to go back to the drawing ... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Don't Expect a Grand Solar Minimum to Save Us From Global Warming

photo: chantrybee via flickr. Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum--like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age--it would still only offset less than a tenth of the warming caused by human release of greenhouse gases. That's the word from a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in ...
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Mining Methane From A Rwandan Lake Offers to More Than Double Nation's Electric Capacity

photo: Wikipedia This is one you definitely don't hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here's how they are doing it:... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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World's Scientists to Carry Out Independent Review of IPCC

Photo via FreeSpeech Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from academies around the world will take part in the review, which will be headed by the Inter-Academy Council--and it will be conducted completely independently of the United Nations. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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After Smart Grids, Smart Sewage? Urine-Separating NoMix Toilet Gets Thumbs-Up in 7 European Countries

NoMix Toilet. Photo: Flickr Technological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet! Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there's such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had "NoMix" toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels). So what's stopping us from going NoMix?... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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World Crude Oil Production Projected to Peak a Decade Sooner

Source: iStock Photo via American Chemical Society. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section. Alternative energy efforts received a bit of a boon this week from a study published in the American Chemical Society's journal Energy & Fuels, which revealed conventional crude oil production might peak in 2014--... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Utilities Poised to Blow It When Smart Grid Rolls Out

Photo via FeatheredTar According to new research from IDC Energy Insights, utilities are not even remotely ready for the smart grid particularly when it comes to one vital piece of the puzzle - customer interaction. So far, utilities have been this big, lumbering entity to which you send money every month in order to have your lights stay on, your refrigerator keep cold, your heater to keep you warm. You don't think about it daily, nor do you call up your utility for a chat often - or at all other than when you're moving. But with real time pricing and new inte... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Joos Solar Charger Tested In A Tub of Water In The Shade, Still Charges (Video)

Photo via press release The Joos Solar Charger makes some bold claims. First, the company states that it generates 20 times the charge of other personal solar chargers on the market. There is no data on their website showing exactly what numbers they're measuring, so we can only assume they're talking about chargers with similar sized solar cells, and not personal solar chargers in general. The Joos can deliver 2.5 hours of talk time on your cell phone for every one hour of sunlight it sucks up.... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Paperless Passports The Future of Airport Security? e-Passports with AMOLED Screens Announced at CeBIT 2010 (Video)

Screenshot via youtube video German company Bundesdruckerei showed off what it is calling the world's first e-passport equipped with an AMOLED display at CeBIT 2010. It could be the future of airport security, ditching paper passports for one driver's license-like card that can display a rotating view of the passport owner. And what's even more amazing is that the card doesn't need a battery for the screen to function. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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