Powering a Google Search

Have you ever thought about your websurfing as a contributor to global warming?

clipped from googleblog.blogspot.com a typical search uses “half the energy as boiling a kettle of water” and produces 7 grams of CO2. We thought it would be helpful to explain why this number is *many* times too high. Google is fast — a typical search returns results in less than 0.2 seconds.

Campaign Couture: Recycled fashions featured at inaugural ball

Setting a new tone…

clipped from license.icopyright.net January 3, 2009 Campaign couture: Recycle Runway owner to show off Obama fashions at inaugural ball “Nancy Judd, Santa Fe’s Dumpster fashionista, will be strutting her environmentally correct ensembles made from recycled materials — from crushed glass and audio cassette tapes to soda tabs and campaign signs — Jan. 17 at The Green Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C. Judd, 40, owner of Recycle Runway, also has been invited to the inaugural party hosted by New Mexico’s congressional delegation on Jan. 19, the night before the Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration. Green Ball producers said “every facet of The Green Ball is designed to reduce the impact on the environment.”

Food needs ‘fundamental rethink’

“Essentially, what we are dealing with at the moment is a food system that was laid down in the 1940s,” he told BBC News.

It followed on from the dust bowl in the US, the collapse of food production in Europe and starvation in Asia.

clipped from www.enn.com Food needs ‘fundamental rethink’ By Mark Kinver  Science and environment reporter, BBC News A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of “new fundamentals”, according to a leading food expert. Tim Lang warned that the current system, designed in the 1940s, was showing “structural failures”, such as “astronomic” environmental costs. The new approach needed to address key fundamentals like biodiversity , energy, water and urbanisation, he added.