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Dirty clouds: Greenpeace ranks tech giants on their data centers’ coal dependency
Tech companies have something hanging over their heads.Photo: The SharpteamAs I sit here at the Local 123 café in Berkeley on Earth Day, a dozen hipsters are transfixed by their Macbooks, their heads lost in the cloud. According to a Greenpeace report [PDF] released this week, all those presumably green and well-meaning digital workers-slash-slackers are […]
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Tim DeChristopher found guilty, shows power of nonviolent civil disobedience
Tim DeChristopher.Photo: (C) 2011 Daphne HougardClimate activist Tim DeChristopher, who was put on trial in Salt Lake City, Utah, this week for his interference with an oil and gas auction held at the end of the Bush administration, on Thursday was found guilty by a jury. He faces a sentence of up to 10 years, […]
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As climate crime continues, who are we sending to jail? Tim DeChristopher?
They’ve got the wrong guy.Photo by Cliff LyonLet’s consider for a moment the targets the federal government chooses to make an example of. So far, no bankers have been charged, despite the unmitigated greed that nearly brought the world economy down. No coal or oil execs have been charged, despite fouling the entire atmosphere and […]
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker uses Twitter and references Camus in a single bound
Cory Booker has proven he can use social media, shovel snow, and throw around fancy French philosophy.
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Twitter chatbot argues with global warming deniers automatically
Nigel Leck got tired of debunking the same climate skeptic arguments over and over, so he created a Twitter chatbot to answer them automatically.
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IBM lets you use your laptop to solve the global water crisis
Your laptop can join IBM's Worldwide Community Grid, a global network of linked personal computers that's doing important water experiments.
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The smart bike that pedals and twitters across America
Humans think they've got the market cornered on electronic communication, but a twittle bird told us that's no longer the case. See what we mean.
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The mystery BP Twitterer revealed!
Leroy Stick is the brains behind a fake BP Twitter account called BPGlobalPR that’s racked up more than 180,000 followers. Need to Know‘s Erin Chapman grabbed an exclusive on-camera interview with him at the TEDxOilSpill conference. Stick (an alias) began feeding his updates to humor-starved news junkies on May 19 and — like the oil […]
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You should totally apologize to BP
There have been a lot of apologies flying around this week. BP CEO Tony Hayward to the U.S. people. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) to Hayward and BP. Now it’s Twitter’s (and your) turn to tell BP just how totally sorry it is for everything. It’s been a rough week. DrogoBoffin via Twitter@DrogoBoffin: #Imsorrybp That Kanye […]