Wonderlane via Flickr CC / CC BY 1.0 Can Facebook do for energy monitoring what Google and Microsoft couldn’t? Facebook is planning to launch a new app that will allow users to monitor their energy use and compete to reduce their electricity bills. Sound familiar
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Photo: Paul Morse, Clinton Global Initiative via Flickr Retrofitting old buildings to make them more energy efficient is often described as the least sexy item on greens’ to-do list. True, insulating buildings and installing new windows may seem less awe-inspiring than the prospect of seeing miles of solar arrays in the desert or massive, futuristic-looking wind turbines. But there’s something about picking the low-hanging fruit of efficiency retrofits that should be inspiring awe in another… View this infographic bigger at EnergySavvy.com With all the talk among the Republican hopefuls for President about opening up more of the US for energy exploration in the name of job creation, here’s an infographic laying out in stark terms how many more jobs can be created, and more energy saved, through energy efficiency Photos: The Divine Chair Company Vintage furniture is coming back in a big way, with furniture designers finding new ways to update old-fashioned finds. Frustrated with being unable to find an affordable vintage chair, much less one she liked, New York-based designer Kitty McBride started The Divine Chair Company , taking antique chairs and re-painting with bold colours and re-upholstering them with her signature fabrics — resulting in eccentric yet beautiful contrasts…. Read the full story on TreeHugger Images credit City of Toronto 30,000 green building professionals are coming to Toronto for Greenbuild in October; this series will try to explain Toronto to them. This series is going to be about what people can actually see and do in Toronto, but a new vision for the waterfront was presented yesterday that is too important to ignore, and that tells so much about what’s going on in Toronto today Photos: Kevin Shea Thanks to being sturdy and ultra-efficient with space, energy and materials, geodesic domes have been used as greenhouses , treehouses and also as homes . Located in Long Island, New York and measuring 70-feet in diameter and 44-f.. New technology to more accurately gauge the temperature of power lines es expected to improve the overall efficiency of the electricity grid. Chemical giant acquires start-up that makes ‘silicon ink’ that boosts the efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells. Image via HP While all the attention was on Apple’s iCloud this week, HP quietly slipped out some news that is not so insignificant. The company revealed EcoPOD, short for “Performance Optimized Data Center,” a modular data center that claims a Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) of 1.05 |
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