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How to Have a Greener Christmas?

Driivz

With the season of peak consumption at hand, it’s not surprising that waste levels globally increase by 25-30% during the holidays, including reams of wrapping paper destined for landfills. Or make your own recyclable gift wrap by using newspapers, brown paper with twine, or magazine pages. Eco-friendly alternatives for gift wrapping.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

Cars That Think

On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Its physical design, the minimalist layout, the screen with playlists, and the easy-access buttons made it successful, and the iTunes store made it easier for people to discover and buy music and organize it into personal playlists.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. You know how the Greenius loves a challenge and how little I fear anything… except maybe The Math itself.

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What are some New Year’s Resolutions I can make to help the environment?

Clean Fleet Report

Commit to reducing waste by embracing practices like reusing, repurposing and recycling. Also, strive to reduce food waste by planning meals, composting organic waste and supporting initiatives that redistribute surplus food to those in need. See more at E Magazine. Support brands committed to sustainable practices.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. Lillian Light (President of the EPN) arranged something with another person.

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The Sneaky Standard

Cars That Think

Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. It was wasteful, made being a hardware manufacturer more costly, and added to consumer confusion. Ebbing demand for personal computers has slowed innovation in advanced PCs.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

Networks that link personal computers in offices. There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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