energy efficiency
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How to Profit From Climate Change
As the world assembles in Doha to debate climate change policy, solutions, and costs, few attendees at “COP18” are looking at this as a profit-making opportunity. If they did, there might be agreements among nations instead of continued gridlock and finger-pointing. Over two decades ago, scientists warned that growing carbon pollution in the atmosphere would […]
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New technology could make your cell phone battery last twice as long
a company called Eta Devices, which spun out of MIT, has figured out how to make your phone's power amplifier much more efficient.
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This light switch forces kids to save energy through emotional manipulation
This dimmer switch smiles when the lights are off and frowns when they're on.
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Now that you can send smells through your phone, why even bother leaving the house?
A Japanese company has created a device that attaches to the bottom of an iPhone and that sends smells over the internet.
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How Apple Maps could save the planet
When it comes to energy efficiency, Apple Maps blows Google Maps out of the water.
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Look at this f*cking hipster Starbucks
This Starbucks doesn't want to be like other Starbuckses. It's different. It's cool. It dresses better. It listens to better music. And it's totally into locally sourced materials.
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IKEA plans to sell only LED light bulbs
Because IKEA is so fricking ubiquitous, this is actually a big deal.
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If this photo doesn’t make you want to live in a tiny house, nothing will
We love us a good tiny house, but you know what is better than your run-of-the-mill tiny house? A tiny house on a tiny rock. A tiny house on a tiny rock in the middle of a river. With a kayak your only connection to land.
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One latte uses as much carbon as an entire year of dicking around on Facebook
As guilty pleasures go, Grist List is officially endorsing Facebook, and not just because it’s great for us when you share our funny-awesome-holyshit-cool stories with all your friends and they click on our site and hooray! No, it’s not our self-interest but our love for the planet that is motivating this endorsement. Because of the […]