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1. European Union to Ban Imports of some Biofuel Crops
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2. AMD yields more efficiency, Intel more throughput in quad-core CPU showdown
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3. Drive-Throughs Pollute and Don't Even Save Time
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4. Starbucks Switches To Hormone-Free Milk
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5. Wayback Machine 1971: The Venturo Prefab
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6. Good News On The Electronics Front: In 2007, Laptop Beat Desktop Sales
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7. Terrapass Unveils the Carbon Balanced Business
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8. Eco-Libris and BookMooch Partner Up: Plant a Tree, Mooch a Book
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9. Mobile Living: The Unicat
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10. House Cafeteria Goes Green, Lobbyists Complain
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11. Survey: Can a Shiny New Mac be Green?
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12. Riverwired.com: Celebrity Mulch
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13. Riverwired.com: Runners: Wake Up and Smell The Green
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14. Linux a greener alternative to a forced Vista move?
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15. Riverwired.com: My First Date With Green Architect Dave
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16. Riverwired.com: The Quest For The Perfect Carbon Calculator
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17. Riverwired.com: A Bag Made Out of Bags
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18. IBM, Nokia, and Sony back green-patent giveaway
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19. Retiring XP means wasteful upgrades to Vista-capable PCs
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20. Riverwired.com: Treat Your Pup To Some Eco-Treats
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21. Riverwired.com: GoodWill Eases Computer Wasteland
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22. Riverwired.com: My Life in Storage
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23. Riverwired.com: Paper or Plastic?
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24. Riverwired.com: Celebrity Mulch
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25. CES: HP pledges to cut PC power usage by 25 percent
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26. InfoWorld Green 15 will celebrate 2007's innovative green-tech project
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27. Green Plug looks to cut energy waste and cable clutter
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28. CES groomed for green
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29. Research: Cell-phones plus driving equals traffic
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30. The definition of green
European Union to Ban Imports of some Biofuel Crops
2008-01-16 19:50
Business & Politics
Image courtesy of Wrote via flickr Amidst renewed fears over the impact of biofuels on the environment, which a recent Royal Society report warned could "do more harm than good," the European Union has issued a draft law that would propose a ban on the imports of biofuels derived from crops grown on certain types of land — such as forests, wetlands and grasslands. It would also require them to deliver a — as yet undetermined — "minimum level of greenhouse gas savings." The ban would particu... 
AMD yields more efficiency, Intel more throughput in quad-core CPU...
2008-01-16 19:50
Ted Samson - Processors
In a recent gauntlet of tests comparing AMD's quad-core Opteron processor (i.e. Barcelona) to Intel's quad-core Xeon (i.e. Tigerton), the Xeon delivered up to 14 percent more throughput, but the Opteron used up to 41 percent less energy. READ MORE 
Drive-Throughs Pollute and Don't Even Save Time
2008-01-16 19:33
cars
Michael Stuparyk, the Star Last summer there was a spate of articles about municipalities from Washington DC to California considering the banning of new drive-through restaurants. Some because they are ugly- "One of the things we always hear from residents is that they want a more walkable downtown" says one politician, but mainly because of pollution and greenhouse gases. Others protest, s... 
Starbucks Switches To Hormone-Free Milk
2008-01-16 18:48
food
Starbucks has announced that it is moving forward with its long-promised plans to serve only milk produced by cows free of the artificial hormone known as rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone). According to the company, all of its core dairy products (fluid milk, half and half, whipping cream and eggnog) are now rBGH-free. Unfortunately, Starbucks also plans to stop selling organic milk in its stores next month. The company has stocked organic milk at U.S. shops since 2001. Starbucks spokesman Brandon Borrman said the original reason for offering it was to cater to customers who wanted milk from cows that weren't given rBGH.... 
Wayback Machine 1971: The Venturo Prefab
2008-01-16 18:41
prefab
There is really nothing new about many of the modern prefabs that everyone is going gaga over; back in the 70's Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed the Venturo, a bit less extreme than his wonderful Futuro House. It appears to have been used primarily as gas stations for BP.... 
Good News On The Electronics Front: In 2007, Laptop Beat Desktop Sales
2008-01-16 18:04
electronics
Anybody remember the cost rule for personal computer purchasing? Old Rule (circa 1985):- The "system" you really wanted cost US$5,000. My 1984 $5K baby was one of those Compaq twin-floppy 'Portables' (pictured) weighing 28 pounds naked - much heavier with the expensive, resource-consuming, wheeled, hardshell shipping case needed to take it flying. Compaq's fan roared just to keep things cool. My printer of choice at the time, which cost as much as a low end "desktop" PC does these days, was a real lunker of a dot-matrix. New Rule:- The laptop you most want costs US$2,000, no printer or case needed, really. ... 
Terrapass Unveils the Carbon Balanced Business
2008-01-16 18:03
Business & Politics
The folks at Terrapass have just unveiled their latest product aimed at making carbon offsetting accessible and easy for the masses. The Carbon Balanced Business is, in fact, an extension of work the company has already been doing with businesses and organizations to offset their footprint. Now, however, businesses of all sizes can offset their emissions by using a simple, easy to use carbon calculator that walks you through... 
Eco-Libris and BookMooch Partner Up: Plant a Tree, Mooch a Book
2008-01-16 18:01
Take Action
Separately, TreeHugger likes both Eco-Libris and BookMooch; what's not to like about two organizations that encourage reading, plant trees, and help you get new books without having to buy them? In a move that might represent the cosmic aligning of the planets, the two have partnered up (which really makes sense!), making reading, tree-planting and book-swapping easier than ever. ... 
Mobile Living: The Unicat
2008-01-16 15:56
un-treehugger
There is great appeal to the idea living in efficient small spaces and to not being tied down to real estate; that is why we like the minihome or the portabach or container housing. But just as there is as Mercedes can make a Smart Car and a Maybach, there can be a range in mobile living from the light and green to the extreme. This may well be the Hummer of mobile living, the Unicat. This baby is built on a Mercedes Unimog ... 
House Cafeteria Goes Green, Lobbyists Complain
2008-01-16 14:30
Business & Politics
Darren Higgins for The New York Times Everything is political in Washington and there is a lobbyist for every interest group, so when Nancy Pelosi demanded an "environmentally responsible and healthy working environment" in the house, it meant changing the food in the cafeterias. Then the complaining started. According to Marian Burros in the New York Times, the egg industry complained about the use of cage free eggs and the Dairy industry about hormone free milk. The lobbyists say that the restaurant operators are "hooked by propaganda of animal rights groups" and are "advocates of vegetarianism."... 
Survey: Can a Shiny New Mac be Green?
2008-01-16 13:47
surveys
When we wrote our post about the new mercury, arsenic and PVC free recyclable low power MacBook Air yesterday, there was some criticism of Apple and of TreeHugger in the comments. After the abuse we took for our survey on fixies, we will take a break from writing surveys and let our commenters do the work. 
Riverwired.com: Runners: Wake Up and Smell The Green
2008-01-16 05:00
tdupuy - ACCA
As a marathon runner I go through athletic shoes once every two-to-three months. Running shoes are generally only good for 300-to-400 miles. Worn out shoes can cause injuries.
Linux a greener alternative to a forced Vista move?
2008-01-15 20:23
Ted Samson - Save Windows XP
If you read my blog yesterday, you noticed my entry about Microsoft's move to retire XP and effectively force Windows shops into a wasteful migration to Vista. I spelled out a couple of scenarios: 1. Stick with XP and hope you can gather the licenses you need to run your business as it grows, all the while waiting for a better version of Windows to emerge down the road. 2. Cave in and adopt Vista, either taking a headache-inducing piecemeal approach or an all-out expensive (and again, wasteful) mass migration. Lo, there's another alternative, one that has been pointed out... READ MORE 
Riverwired.com: My First Date With Green Architect Dave
2008-01-15 05:00
salbert - Blogs
I am so excited about my hot date with "Green Architect Dave" who I met in Yoga class. First things first, I figure I need some new threads; "green" threads that is.
IBM, Nokia, and Sony back green-patent giveaway
2008-01-14 18:27
Ted Samson - Green technology
As sustainability continues to percolate in minds of business and technology leaders worldwide, we're witnessing more and more companies stepping up and sharing their resources and brainpower for the greater green good. READ MORE 
Retiring XP means wasteful upgrades to Vista-capable PCs
2008-01-14 16:53
Ted Samson - Save Windows XP
Every so often, an organization has to refresh some or all of its users' PCs. Perhaps the sales team's laptops are suffering from wear and tear and need replacing. Maybe the finance department requires more powerful desktops to run a newly purchased, resource-intensive, business-critical app. READ MORE 
Riverwired.com: GoodWill Eases Computer Wasteland
2008-01-14 03:00
tdupuy - Blogs
So you got a new computer. It's super fast and way better than your last
one. You marvel at how quickly technology changes. You wonder how you're
Riverwired.com: Paper or Plastic?
2008-01-14 00:00
Jeff Buscher - bags
CES: HP pledges to cut PC power usage by 25 percent
2008-01-10 20:58
Ted Samson - HP
Using the greener-than-ever CES as a backdrop, HP this week announced plans to reduce the energy consumption of its volume desktop and notebook PC families by 25 percent by 2010 -- relative to its 2005 numbers. HP's strategy for achieving this goal is pretty straightforward. In part, the company will continue to integrate more efficient power supplies and lower-energy chip sets into its systems. Here, HP is safely betting on the fact that these component vendors down the supply chain will continue to crank out increasingly efficient wares. Power to the PC HP's approach to power supplies is worth noting;... READ MORE 
InfoWorld Green 15 will celebrate 2007's innovative green-tech project
2008-01-10 11:00
Ted Samson - Green 15
Concerns over datacenter power shortages as well as global climate change seeded the green-tech movement some time ago, but it really started to bear fruit in 2007. I've made a sincere effort to highlight green-tech projects of note over the past 12 months, but let's face it: I'm but one man (by my most recent count), and there's little doubt in my mind that many more organizations out there have wrapped up some excellent, innovative IT projects geared toward realizing their sustainability goals. In an effort to recognize companies for their innovative green-tech efforts -- and to demonstrate to the... READ MORE 
Green Plug looks to cut energy waste and cable clutter
2008-01-08 21:57
Ted Samson - Power supplies
Power management plays perhaps the most integral role in the whole sustainable technology movement. Reducing energy waste means lower electricity bills (and/or greater capacity for adding new machines) as well as a smaller carbon footprint. In an effort to sate customers' thirst for green, vendors have made strides to develop wares aimed at ensuring hardware is using only as much power as necessary to perform effectively. A startup called Green Plug is adding a new solution to the mix, which it's showing off at CES 2008. The company has developed an electronics component chip, called the Green Plug Universal Power... READ MORE 
CES groomed for green
2008-01-07 22:33
Ted Samson - Green technology
Green tech continues to flourish, and not only in the enterprise. Eco-friendlier tech wares are becoming more plentiful in the pockets and on the desks and laps of end-users, as evidenced by the green-tinged goods showing up at the annual CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. READ MORE 
Research: Cell-phones plus driving equals traffic
2008-01-03 21:56
Ted Samson - Cell phones
You might just think you're an excellent driver, even while chatting on your cell phone. In truth, however, even if you've got both hands on the wheel thanks to a handy hands-free phone, you're likely contributing to aggravating, dangerous, fuel-wasting traffic. READ MORE 
The definition of green
2008-01-03 11:00
Ted Samson - Green technology
One of my blog readers, the author of the "Green" Supply Chain Analyst Weblog, posed an interesting question in one of my previous posts. Essentially he asked, What defines a green product or service? READ MORE 
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