Here is a really cool site that I came across recently. It provides you with a vision of the future of smart power grids technology. Highly interactive displays allows visitors to explore the various benefits of smart grids, in cost and energy efficiency. Visitors can expect to see 3D graphics that you can interact with, and a hologram that you can manipulate through the use of your webcam.
Check it out and see for yourself. Click the button above to view.
Now that music has gone digital how can we responsibly get rid of our CDs?
Recently, a commenter asked how could he get rid of his old CDs? Luckily, Planet Green had an article about reusing CDs, but it didn't have an article about other ways to deal with them. Well, now it does.
Most of us have heard of the hype about how a black screen can help reduce energy costs by a significant bit as it theoretically requires less energy to produce a black screen as compared to a lighter coloured screen.
GPS-based mobile software promises to measure your planetary impact
Soon tracking your carbon footprint will require nothing more than a software installation on your cell phone. Developed at start-up company Carbon Hero in London, the software Carbon Diem takes advantage of global positioning satellites (GPS) to figure out automatically what transportation you are using, and, based on that deduction, calculate your up-to-the-minute carbon impact. The company's chief executive Andreas Zachariah, who is also a student at London's Royal College of Art, came up with the idea after he got tired of calculating his own carbon usage manually through various online calculators.
Usually we're focused on our personal power consumption -- wondering why our gas bill went up or took a dip. But what if we added up everybody's power consumption? How much would it be?
Now that music has gone digital how can we responsibly get rid of our CDs? 
