Webs’ Random Ideas

And I just heard about it today from my coworker.

So here is an article on Bush and Climate Change:

“By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem,” President Bush told representatives of 17 nations attending the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change held in Washington, D.C., this week. “We must lead the world to produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, and we must do it in a way that does not undermine economic growth or prevent nations from delivering greater prosperity for their people.” The nations represented at the conference emit more than 80 percent of the globe’s greenhouse gases

Right… so you recognize there is a problem, and to solve this problem you don’t create any plan and push off the responsibility to the next president. Wonderful! Oh, and don’t forget the claim that we “must not undermine economic growth.” It’s a ridiculous claim to make since the outcome of not doing anything is disastrous.

Basically as the article states, Bush squandered a great opportunity to actually put forth measures that would have an impact on Climate Change. So below I offer the promo video of Blogging Action Day and a link to DOFs post on this

http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/index.php/weblog/blog_action_day07/

So lately, Sun has been doing a few things right in terms of being Eco-friendly. They just launched a website called OpenEco. The purpose of the site is to bring together all kinds of organizations that are working on environmentally friendly areas so they can share their data.

For instance, suppose you are a business and installing a script to automatically shut down your computer systems has saved your company “x” amount of dollars. Well now you can share what you did and how much it saved you with others, so they to can see what other businesses are doing to make a difference. The site is free to register and is very easy to use.

Another notable is Sun’s Ray 2 computer. Go check it out! It’s a pretty slick machine for sure. And it only uses 4 watts of power compared to the average PC which uses around 80. That’s one heck of a reduction in energy usage.

However, it is important to note the Sun Ray 2 is a thin client, meaning it pulls content down from a server, so it really doesn’t do much work at all. It leaves all the calculating up to a server. But the idea is pretty ingenious. Sun has a flash system that explains the design very simply.

I like reporting on items like these because it shows improvements are being made and some companies are trying to change the glutinousness we Americans seem to embody.

Found via TreeHugger…