The Natural Resources Defense Council estimates that improvements in energy efficiency could save $700 billion in cost savings in the U.S. alone– and yes, that’s billion with a “b”. But getting consumers to adopt the smart grid technology and techniques to achieve those savings is the real challenge, so… Facebook, the Natural Resources Defense Council [...]
Steve Jobs is rightly hailed for the software design innovations of Apple products, but the citing of his corporate leadership as epitomizing the modern economy may also reflect some unfortunate truths as well. Apple has the highest market capitalization of any company on Wall Street, yet it only employs 50,000 employees worldwide—a rounding error in [...]
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski made a major speech on Jobs and The Broadband Economy” at the offices of Living Social, touting the company and similar Internet companies as a key to jobs in the broadband economy. He cited “Facebook. Twitter. iPhones. Tablets. App stores. Android. The Kindle. The cloud” as new innovations in the last [...]
You’re computer’s on as you talk on your cell phone, with a new iPad charging in its dock and game consoles across the room hooked up to a 52inch big screen TV. The reality is that modern tech devices have led to a massive energy-suck in many peoples’ home. Rep. Mike Honda of California introduced [...]
Most people understand by now that modern “clean technology” is anything but. “Clean rooms” may replace smokestacks for production, but the parts of electronic components have incredible toxics that end up in landfills all over the world as so-called e-waste is exported overseas. Well, it looks like Congress may tackle abusive e-waste exporting: A growing [...]
