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iGo Technologies provides solutions for charging up gadgets more efficiently by ditching standby power. They’re debuting a few more cool looking products at the upcoming CES. Read on for a glimpse of what tech we’ll get to see in just a couple weeks. ...

Canadians have a great way to voice their concerns about the environment to federal officials.

Power Up Canada offers news, information, statistics, and easy ways to take action and write to political leaders. ...

Image of IBM’s Zurich Research Lab System, via IEEE Spectrum Online

If you’re going to be online and using data centers, you might as well use their waste heat to warm up the room in which you’re web surfing, right?

Image Credit: Yves Roumazeilles

The European Union has outlined a new plan to fight global warming. Which is a good thing. The less good thing is that according to the views of many scientists the measures will not bring about enough of a reduction in carbon emissions to really mitigate the worst effects of global warming.

Here are the broad stroke outlines of the so-called 20/20/20 plan:
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The guys at Illuminati say that this frame will be “elegantly covered with the composite body shell”. Photo: IMW

Looking a little like a wedge of hard cheese, this modernistic Swedish passive house is perched on a rock and with a view of the sea in the southeastern Swedish hamlet of Trosa.

Passive house combines eco-techniques and "modern" design

While Advanced Metering Infrastructure, which allows wireless communication between utilities and meters, has been going in across the country for over a decade, it is only recently that they have been developing into smart grid systems.

Could a smart grid system be popping up in your areas?...

While Advanced Metering Infrastructure, which allows wireless communication between utilities and meters, has been going in across the country for over a decade, it is only recently that they have been developing into smart grid systems.

Could a smart grid system be popping up in your areas?...