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Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
Health, Pollution, May 30th, 2011,
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to only eat meat that he kills with his own hands. For most softies in the rich, developed world this would mean becoming a vegetarian by default. Unlike exceptions such as Ted Nugent and other rugged hunter-fisher types, we are either too squeamish, too lazy or in some cases too compassionate to kill our own food. We’d prefer to forgo such barbarism and hard work, pop a tofu burger in the microwave and watch TV. But the CEO of Facebook (in case you haven’t noticed) is not like most of us. If we are…
Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, meat, vegetarian
Pollution, Science & Technology, Apr 21st, 2011,
Things have not been looking good for the world’s favorite technology company. They seem green and ethical and liberal and just plain cuddly-cute, but Apple has fallen from the tree and landed in last place on Greenpeace’s “How Dirty is Your Data” table of tech firms. Cloud computing and our increasing reliance on energy intensive data centers are fueling this change in the way we use energy (for information) and the trend is set to rise 4 fold in 10 years time. From the Guardian: The report estimated dependence on coal for Apple’s data centres at 54.5%, followed by Facebook…
Tags: Apple, coal, data center, energy, Facebook, Greenpeace, intensive
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Apr 11th, 2011,
Greenpeace has been giving facebook a tough time regarding social networking giant’s reliance on fossil fuels to power its massive servers. Back in February 2010 facebook announced that it would build a new, more efficient, datacenter. Sounds, great, right? Problem is they chose to build it in a location where it will be powered by coal-burning electricity plants. So Greenpeace launched the “Unfriend Coal” campaign, which ironically has its own facebook page. Now, in an effort to share its energy efficiency innovations – without directly addressing the coal issue – facebook has decided to be truly open source and share…
Tags: coal, energy, Facebook, Greenpeace, power, tech, unfriend
Climate Change, Green living, Science & Technology, Nov 15th, 2010,
Recently Facebook launched their Green on Facebook page in an effort to green up their image after the big dirty coal data center debacle of earlier this year. According to their Facebook page, the Green on Facebook is run by Facebook and will highlight our efforts to be a green and sustainable global citizen. Together with 56.000 others, I became a fan op the page, and as many others I’m sure I’m pretty disappointed with the content of it. The wall is filled with links to various articles about different environmental topics, but very little information is available about Facebook’s…
Tags: carbon emissions, Climate change, CO2 emissions, coal, datacenter, Facebook, global warming, Green on Facebook, Greenpeace, renewable energy
Green living, Science & Technology, Jul 21st, 2010,
Certain Internet giants were recently criticized by a Greenpeace report because they source their power from coal-fired stations. Facebook and Apple were named as guilty parties, while Google and Yahoo came out looking a bit more eco-friendly than the competition. But cloud computing – or web-based computer use – can also generate heat and electricity. It’s all about the efficient use of energy. From an article in Scientific American: District cooling and heating is already a mainstay in Finland and some other Scandinavian countries, contributing to their Kyoto-required reductions in CO2. Heat gets captured and injected into water or steam….
Tags: centers, cloud, computing, data, electricity, energy, Facebook, Finland, heat, power
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Apr 2nd, 2010,
So-called ‘cloud computing’ – or basically ‘using the Internet’ to people like you and me – is largely dependent on coal-fired power stations. To be more precise, all Internet use isn’t cloud computing, but web-based computing is huge and increasing all the time. It allows access to all sorts of data and entertainment housed in massive servers or data centers, many of which rely on highly polluting coal. “Make IT Green: Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change”, shows how the launch of quintessential cloud computing devices like the Apple iPad, which offer users access to the “cloud” of…
Tags: Apple, cloud, coal, computing, Facebook, google, Greenpeace, Internet, power, report, Yahoo
Climate Change, Pollution, Feb 22nd, 2010,
Social networking giant Facebook has received a lot of press lately and most of it hasn’t been good. First, news came out that their new data center would be powered by coal. Then, Change.org ran a petition in an attempt to get them to switch to a more renewable power source. Now, Facebook comes head-to-head with their most formidable opponent yet: Greenpeace. Yes, Greenpeace—the great, international, environmental organization—is the latest to challenge Facebook’s decision to use coal power instead of renewable energy. Much bantering has already gone back and forth between the 2 and both seem to be getting nowhere….
Tags: coal power, complaints, controversy, Facebook, Greenpeace, new data center, Pacific Power, petitions, renewable energy
Climate Change, Feb 13th, 2010,
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Tags: CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Change.org, coal power, Facebook, get Facebook to switch to renewable power, petition, renewable energy
Science & Technology, Feb 8th, 2010,
Are you a fan of Facebook? If so, you may be interested in knowing that their data center is now powered by coal. Yes, that’s right. This leading social network is powered by the number one cause of climate change. Last month, Facebook vice president, John Heiliger, announced they would be building their first data center in Oregon. Given the amount of renewable energy available throughout the state, many figured that was the direction this social network giant was headed in. Unfortunately, that wasn’t entirely the case. Pacific Power, a division of PacifiCorp, is providing the electricity to the data…
Tags: Climate change, coal power, data center, Facebook, Oregon, Pacific Power, Pollution
Wildlife & Flora, Dec 14th, 2009,
Primates (other than humans) are taking over the internet. First, you were able to friend gorillas on Twitter. Now, you can check out an orangutan’s photo gallery on Facebook. Nonja, a 33-year-old orangutan resident of Vienna’s Schönbrunn Zoo, has her own Facebook gallery—and already 500 fans since it was created at the beginning of December. How, exactly, does she take the pictures? Well, it’s not like she’s interested in photography or cameras, for starters. Nonja is more interested in what else the camera can do. Nonja’s camera is specially designed to give her a raisin every time she pushes the…
Tags: Facebook, Nonja’s photo gallery, orangutan, Vienna’s Schonbrunn Zoo
