http://www.environblog.com Easy Environmental Tips For Sustainable Living Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Trees for the Future is a new initiative which is encouraging people to write about green issues. The hope here is to bring awareness to the issues about the environment and the help it needs to prosper. Meanwhile, for every post submitted, 10 trees will be planted with the goal ... http://www.environblog.com/2008/06/trees-future-blogging-trees-win-1000.html Servers these days consume ridiculous amounts of power. Multiple 15000 RPM drives in RAID configurations and duets of power sucking CPUs eat a lot of energy. An article which I read the other day was quite telling. A technology blog did a study into power consumption on servers running Windows and ... http://www.environblog.com/2008/06/linux-servers-energy-efficient.html Scientists have now genetically modified algae to produce oil efficiently. Theres a site about this green  source of oil (literally), called Oilgae.com and it provides a host of information about algae oil production. At first sight, this appears to be a great method for producing oil but since uptake on this ... http://www.environblog.com/2008/06/algae-oil-production-disadvatages-benefits.html Back a few months ago, mybabytree.org started selling the opportunity to buy a tree and watch it grow from Google Earth. I decided to buy one, and now I have just recieved confirmation that it has been planted. This is really cool. Not only do I get the fuzzy warm feeling ... http://www.environblog.com/2008/06/buy-tree-watch-grow-earth.html Since I'm a marketer by profession I tend to notice Ads a little more than most people, so as I was researching my previous post, I was caught immediately by an unsightly ad. It's obvious with this ad that the war continues between marketing consumerism and the mighty environment. Despite it's ... http://www.environblog.com/2008/05/marketing-vs-the-environment-who-will-win.html Today, an important victory was won for environment when Gunns Ltd's Pulp Mill project in Tasmania, Australia was denied funding. ANZ, which was the source of funding of the $2 Billion dollar project (yes, $2,000,000,000), cut funding today as it recognised the toxicity of the project on the environment the inhabitant ... http://www.environblog.com/2008/05/tasmanian-pulp-mills-funding-cut.html I'm constantly fascinated by the advances in technology that we see in telecommunications these days. Since energy costs are rising, efficient and effective communication technology is a must for businesses and consumers - especially in an environmental sense. Why bother with face to face meetings when you can have a perfectly ... http://www.environblog.com/2008/05/reducing-travel-energy-wastes.html I came across a post the other day on Get Rich Slowly and the author there has a garden full of Raspberry bushes. Instead of pruning them and throwing away all the weeds, she managed to cook up a Raspberry leaf tea. Further in her article she event mentioned that ... http://www.environblog.com/2008/05/eating-weeds-recipes-information.html The days are numbered for the old internal combustion engine, that runs off petrol. Today we're working towards adopting a new fuel that is renewable and bountiful. That fuel is methanol. Efoy have developed a range of fuel cells for the environmentally concious market. They're relatively light, portable and accessible to ... http://www.environblog.com/2008/05/efo-fuel-cells.html One of the hot topics on for debate over the past decade or so has been genetically modified foods. People claim they're bad for you and others claim they're bad for the environment, whilst another group argues for Genetically modified foods. I'm going to have to take stance with those arguing ... http://www.environblog.com/2008/05/gm-foods-harmful.html