Why not use the power of the people who use the device to generate electricity to keep the electronics running? That is the idea behind Ecomill.
The EcoMill is an all “green” manually powered treadmill that uses zero electricity. The EcoMill is completely self-contained and utilizes a battery to power the display and elevation systems. The [...]
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Ecomill: human hamster
Posted in Organic Computing on 02/01/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ecosia search engine
Posted in Organic Computing on 17/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A rebranded BING search engine is now advocated as a eco solution that helps rain forests (or: the WWF) with ad revenue.
High Level Event on ICT for Energy Efficiency 2010
Posted in Conference, ITS, Organic Computing, tagged Charlesmagne, efficiency, energy, highlevel, ICT, Kopenhagen, low carbon on 08/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
An EU Commission event second edition of the High Level event on ICT for Energy Efficiency will take place
February 23rd/24th 2010 in
Charlemagne Building
170 Rue de la Loi (Wetstraat)
BE-1049 Brussels, Belgium
gathering policy makers and experts on the ICT for Energy Efficiency field. Registration is required but free.
Following up on the ICT4EE 2009 High Level Event which [...]
EU consultation on low carbon computing
Posted in European Union, Organic Computing, tagged consultation, low carbon on 02/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
European Citizens do not only get their say in the upcoming EU Parliament elections, they are also invited to contribute to the consultations of the Commission presents with the IDABC Interactive Policy Making tool.
On March 12, 2009, the Commission adopted a Communication on mobilising Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to facilitate the transition to an [...]
EU: ICT for energy-efficient, low carbon economy
Posted in Organic Computing, lxde, tagged low carbon on 15/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on mobilising Information and Communication Technologies to facilitate the transition to an energy-efficient, low-carbon economy
COM(2009) 111 final, 13-03-2009
This Communication presents a set of ambitious measures that focus on what can be achieved [...]
Open Source and Green IT special program of the German government
Posted in Organic Computing, Uncategorized on 26/02/2009 | 7 Comments »
The CIO newsletter from the Federal Government of Germany (was: KBSt-Newsletter) informs about new activities to stimulate the German economy:
Bereits am 29. Januar 2009 hatte der IT-Rat des Bundes ein vom Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Informationstechnik vorgelegtes Rahmenkonzept über IT-Maßnahmen zum „Pakt für Beschäftigung und Stabilität in Deutschland“ beschlossen. „”Ziel der Maßnahmen ist es, die [...]
Negroponte: Next OLPC based on open hardware
Posted in Organic Computing, netbook on 08/02/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Negroponte talks about the OLPC again. His hardware vision for educational purposes inspired the netbooks. I remember that at the UN World Summit for the Information Society in Geneva Negroponte’s vision was the only substantial concept in an ocean of world transformation strategies and humanity discussions of dictators. Oh, and I found the presentation of [...]
lxshortcut – back to simplicity
Posted in Cloud, Organic Computing, lxde, tagged lxshortcut on 08/12/2008 | Leave a Comment »
LXDE has a added new component, lxshortcut. It’s a small utility used to edit application shortcuts. I really missed it. In other words, it is for those little buttons you click on and that start the application for you. The tool demonstrates the LXDE philosophy to make the desktop not only lightweight and [...]
Barcamp Taipei and LXDE
Posted in Cloud, Organic Computing, lxde, tagged lxde on 08/12/2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sustainability expert Chris Watkins points at the upcoming CarCampTaipei where members of the LXDE team will present their light Desktop environment software.
Chris also has some suggestions for Linux distributions (via Twitter):
#Linux desktops need a keyboard shortcut for the applications/system menu. Shouldn’t the Windows key be mapped by default?
