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Can Electronics Become Compostable?

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And that, of course, is not very good for the environment because it’s not very energy or material efficient to manufacture in a way that a lot of material is wasted and processed several times. But if you produce a lot of electronics that is for single-use purpose, then actually you are creating a lot of new electronic waste.

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Inkjets Are for More Than Just Printing

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Future uses could include personalized medicine and development of advanced batteries. To get around the wastefulness of continuous inkjets, others worked on developing drop-on-demand inkjet printers, where each orifice on the printhead emits one drop of ink at a time, avoiding the waste of a continual flow of drops.

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. Last year alone, he repaired more than 150 bikes and reached thousands of people with bicycling information.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Skip to Content Great gifts for geeks, hand-picked by Download Squad Autoblog AOL Autos Green Daily Gadling Engadget AutoblogGreen Autoblog Green Web Images Video News Local More → x Jobs Mapquest Movies Music Personals Shopping Travel Yellow Pages Send us a tip Contact us Advertise Corrections/Problems? I know this and I speak for them.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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World Earth Day & The Green Reset

My Energi

That’s why we’re launching #TheGreenReset – a national initiative challenging householders worldwide to swap their wasteful ways for environmentally friendly alternatives. Join lifestyle influencers Coral Golding, Dean Bartle, Grace Beverly and share your eco changes on social media, remembering to tag us when you do!

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