One month after Nest’s second-generation thermostat hit the shelves of Best Buy in the US, both Nest’s first- and second-generation products are hitting the Canadian shelves, just in time for old man winter. According to the company website, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Amazon.ca will sell the second-generation energy-efficient thermostat … [continued]
The world has become a remarkably technologically-advanced place to live. Electronically-minded people 15 years ago were simply amazed to send texts to friends on their chunky mobile phones — and desktop computers were behemoths that often resembled the monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey (except white, not black). Now, it’s … [continued]
The Nest Learning Thermostat has been all the rage since it’s introduction late in 2011, thanks to its apparent ease of installation, flashy design, and usefulness. Now, you can get your very own Nest Thermostat at Amazon.com. Nest announced on June 7 that the Nest thermostat is now selling … [continued]
1. New plug-and-play solar modules from Wagan Tech. At the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Wagan Tech unvieled its new Solar e Power™ Cube 1500 and Solar e Power™ Case 450. More from the news release: According to Alex Hsu, Wagan Tech Vice President of Sales, the Solar e Power Series is expected … [continued]
Greenpeace released a report highlighting the green efforts and not-so-green efforts of the world’s top IT companies recently. Take a look at the key findings.
Nike has been one green company lately — in the last year, it has pushed for a strong clean energy and climate bill in Congress on its own and in concert with others and it has helped to reduce deforestation of the Amazon. Now, Nike has also just reported that … [continued]
The Amazon really is a giant planetary utility, performing a service that makes possible billions of dollars worth of industrial energy and food production, by releasing 20 billion tonnes of water into the atmosphere every day.
Shouldn’t we invest in this giant utility, just like we’d invest in any other utility?
The world’s first demonstration facility for the large scale production of Amazonian “dark soil” is under construction in Hengstbacherhof, Germany. Dark soil, also known as terra preta, is a manmade, ultra-fertile soil that was first developed thousands of years ago in Amazon communities. The buzz about terra preta is its … [continued]
You can now explore the Amazon, Madagascar, and Sebangau National Forest in Borneo through Google Earth. On September 25, I wrote about a Google Earth tour (narrated by AL Gore) and new Google Earth tools and layers which help people to look at the possible effects of climate change under … [continued]
[social_buttons] In recent posts on Planetsave and EcoWorldy about moratoria on soya and cattle products related to Amazon destruction, it was mentioned that McDonald’s is helping to save the Amazon. With the company also delving into green building, progressive energy saving software, and charging stations for electric vehicles, is McDonald’s … [continued]
