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GreenerComputing.com has a nice article profiling an Italian winery that is adopting green IT practices as part of their core mission. The article gives insight into common green strategies like server virtualization (think of this as having one computer do the work of many computers) and taking advantage of teleconferencing through services like Skype to cut down on travel emissions. Monte Vibiano is going farther… Continue

Chances are, you're reading this blog post on an LCD computer monitor of some kind. The old bulky cathode-ray's of the past are long gone. LCD technology seems poised to keep the attention of your eyes for years to come, until some new technology outstrips it (by the way, these new LED tvs you may have heard about are just rebranded LCDs with many tiny bulbs under the hood instead of a few halogen bulbs).

But what if you need higher resolution, or more screen space, or if your LCD just stops wo… Continue

I remember being pretty surprised when I was tinkering with my first Windows 95 computer and learning about the Energy Star energy saver in my display settings. I had never thought about the kind of energy my computer was pulling from some nuclear or coal power plant somewhere in Maryland. Today green computing has moved forward somewhat in practice. Much attention has been focused on power consumption of computers, and much work has been done in that area. But as our ability to curb consumption… Continue

Godzilla, the monster dinosaur featured in dozens of films, was a creation of a Japan still recovering from two atomic bombs. The monster was more than just a man in a sweaty rubber suit: Godzilla represented what can go wrong when people play with forces powerful enough to level cities. Now that same country is working on breeding what is being labeled "super tuna."

Don't wor… Continue