Do you know where your email is stored and what it costs the environment to store it there?
… Serious Business YouTube Technology Internet Computers Risk Industrial Technology Internet Computers Sustainability Risk Green Living … virtual services via our desktops, some other computer at the other end of the internet is …
More robust enforcement of laws designed to tackle the growing problem of e-waste is urgently needed, says Anja ffrench of Computer Aid, along with improved management of electrical waste by governments
… Anja ffrench | 31st May 2011 Comment E-waste Computers Pollution EIA WEEE Directive Waste … is urgently needed, says Anja ffrench of Computer Aid, along with improved management … that desperately need to be filled. At Computer Aid we believe that there are …
The world's growing waste mountain of mobile phones, computers and other electronic goods is being illegally recycled in unregulated and primitive conditions in China and causing significant toxic pollution
… for e-waste including mobile phones and computers (UNEP) The world's growing waste mountain of mobile phones, computers and other electronic goods is being … electronics, particularly mobile phones and computers, have soared in the past two decades …
As awareness grows of the huge and swelling carbon footprint made by the world’s IT infrastructure, the government has launched a task-force to green our PCs.
… Green Phil Woolas Energy Energy Efficiency ComputerComputers Technology Carbon Dioxide Global … PC. Officials claim this could make our home computers 98 per cent more efficient. Phil …
From computer games to biohacking, digital designers are ditching music and video in favour of remastering a more exciting medium...
… And Technology Life_in_Mix_MAIN.jpg From computer games to biohacking, digital … in the fridge and then warm it against your computer screen. Presto! Your bacteria are … whose aim is to replicate the success of the computer industry in kick-starting an …
No more disability. Brain implants to boost intelligence. Ageing counteracted. The next stage of evolution or a nightmare we can never wake up from? Jim Thomas on ‘converging technology’.
… to ‘talk’ to each other via the ubiquitous computer processor. In his acclaimed novel … the new terrain of nanotechnology. Chemists, computer programmers, neuroscientists, … so that our minds talk directly to computers or to artificial limbs. Viruses …
Concerns are growing as awareness of the carbon footprint of IT equipment grows.
… the use of ‘thin-client’ computing, where computer users have low-powered ‘interfaces’ … and information. This would allow desktop computers to consume roughly 4 watts of power, …
Ever wondered where computers go when they die? Or what the endless expanse of a Chinese factory floor actually looks like? This film is a meditation on the consumer world
… Manufactured Landscapes Industrial Technology Computers Politics And Economics Pollution … Society Archive_226.jpg Ever wondered where computers go when they die? Or what the … in China (where 50 per cent of the world’s computers end up to be recycled), the …
In February 2009 the Environment Agency began its first prosecution against an individual for an e-waste crime, and claims to have prevented 33 shipments in the previous six months.
… Baker | 4th June 2009 News E-waste Technology Computers Technology Computers Pollution Science And Technology … compared to the estimated 33,000 tonnes of computers alone that the UK illegally exports …
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption…
… have estimated that producing a single computer chip, weighing but a few grams, … note the manufacture of a single laptop computer requires inputs close to 4,000 times … break’ before the consumer expects them to. Computers that can’t be upgraded because in …
As the Digital Schoolhouse programme starts a national roll out to schools across the UK, scientists warn that digital disconnect can mean caring less - for each other and the environment. LAURA BRIGGS reports.
… Living Technology Society Natural World Youth computer-kid-cut.jpg As the Digital … world workers spend entire days chained to computers and locked into screen time without …
Artificial intelligence can help to track and prevent chimpanzee trafficking across the globe.
… to do their dirty business. Fortunately, computer learning experts are dedicated to … on the internet. "I started reaching out to computer learning experts asking …
Campaigning has never been so easy - sign an Avaaz petition here, send an email there ... and the world is soon put to rights, no? No, writes Paul Mobbs. We must examine the impacts and implications of our e-life, from climate change to corporate dominance, and take control of the technologies we increasingly depend on.
… by their owner; today you need a £50,000 computer just to change the oil. Now think about computers. No longer are computers big boxes - they're sleek gadgets …
Information about information, ideas without place, facts without action… It’s time we got off the net, into the world and with the programme, says Michael Bugeja
… Meida Activism Internet Web Information Computers Technology Science And Technology … a talk on the cultural contribution of the computer. To their surprise, Postman said all computers provide is more information faster …
A massive citizen-powered climate simulation conclusively links the UK's winter floods to global warming, writes Simon Redfern. Over 33,000 climate models running in 'screen saver' mode show a powerful connection between hotter oceans and UK rainfall.
… geoscientists, Allen reported an ambitious computer experiment that his team has … up spare processing capacity on their home computers to run the calculations via the …
Powered by 100% renewable energy, Apple is maintaining its lead as the internet's greenest company, But others are lagging behind: Google has yet to reach 50% and relies heavily on coal, while Amazon's AWS, the massive 'dark cloud' of the web, won't even answer questions.
Coal-heavy utilities stand in the way of a green internet The Ecologist | 12th May 2015 News Technology Media Climate Change Renewables Energy data-center-cut.jpg Powered by 100% renewable energy, …
Wave power has a huge part to play in supplying the US with clean, renewable electricity, writes Shalinee Kishore. But to achieve its full potential, we must harness not just the energy of waves, but their predictability - and so so ensure the smooth integration of wave power into the electricity grid.
… Kishore is Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University. …
A new wave power generator has moved closer to reality after successful testing in simulated marine conditions. An array of the 1.5MW 'Searaser' devices could be deployed on Britain's coast within a few years.
… was carried out to validate the extensive computer modelling we've been undertaking" , …
Hydrogen cars - and the fuel cells that drive them - are about to get a whole lot cheaper thanks to a redesign of the platinum catalyst that makes them work, writes Oliver Tickell. By inserting atom-sized holes into the precious metal's surface, its activity can be trebled.
… that take place on their surfaces is computer simulation" , the scientists explain. …
Using new technologies to take on poaching in Africa is reaping big dividends, writes Thomas Snitch. Where drones are deployed as part of an integrated package of measures, poachers quickly give up. The trouble is, they move to other unprotected locations. So we must extend the program to all of Africa's most at-risk areas.
… of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies has created a new … Snitch is Visiting Professor in Advanced Computer Studies at the University of …
Think nuclear power and you probably think of small amounts of highly radioactive material, safely encased in vast concrete bunkers, generating an endless supply of clean electricity. Yes it's expensive and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate change then why not?
… be far from proven technology. ‘Innovative’ computer systems are being designed to manage … human override. Given the failure of computer systems to manage the NHS, Child … system will work perfectly from the outset. Computer programs only reflect what is known …