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Greening Technology
Smiling Switch Makes You Happy to Conserve Electricity Would making your switches look adorable help you to conserve energy? A design by Zhou Yide, Euphe Mo, Hang Zhou & Christine Liu tests the theory. The switch is circular, and when you’ve turned it off, it looks like it is smiling joyfully at you. It really […]
On The Lighter Side
100-Year-Old Belgian Tree Is World’s Most Social Media-Savvy Plant This is begging for a “You know you’re a treehugger if…” joke, the punchline being “if you have a tree as your friend on Facebook.” And there is a century-old tree in Belgium that can fit the bill. It is actually a very social media-savvy tree, […]
Global Briefs Sep-Oct 2010
2,000 Indian Villages Skip Fossil Fuels, Get First Electricity From Solar If you ever need a great example of technological leapfrogging in practice, here it is: In the Indian state of Orissa, the state government has decided to electrify approximately an additional 2,000 villages by March 2012. But rather than hook them up to coal-fired […]