TreeHugger.com has an amusing item titled…
DIY: Recycling Floppy Disks
Um, ok. But that is so last millenium. What I really need are good ideas on recycling those hundreds (maybe thousands) of CDs I received in many many beta cycles over the past decade.

Interesting article over on CNET’s News.com about how…
Fujifilm looks to garbage for energy
By 2008 its Greenwood, SC factory will get between 32 and 44% of its power from methane gas piped in from a landfill a couple of miles away.

Here’s a website that helps you find a nearby recycling center (if there is one).
The Recycling Center
Just type in a zip code and click the search button. It displays a Google Maps mashup with pushpoint identifying recycling centers. I wish it would list what kind of recycling each center performs though.

One of things that irritated me about external USB/Firewire hard drives for a long time was that they stayed on when the computer they were attached to went into low-power sleep mode. Fortunately, it turns out that the Western Digital My Book line of external hard drives are smart. They not only place themselves in […]

One of the things that interested me the most at the Web 2.0 Expo this past April was the…
Potenco Human Powered Generator
…that is associated with the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child $100 notebook project). It looks like a giant yo-yo and is powered by pulling a cable (like an old style gas powered lawn mower). […]

Here’s another Green Google related news from their own blog…
Carbon neutrality by end of 2007
…today we’re announcing that Google will become carbon neutral by the end of 2007.

Found this article in CNN Money…
Google pushes 100-mpg car
Google.org (the philanthropic part of Google) launched a new project named RechargeIT that will initially provide $1 million in grants for research related to hybrid vehicles.

Did you know that credit cards limit the amount that can be spent to purchase gasoline for a car?
Yahoo! News: Credit cards cut off gas purchases
According to the article, Visa and Mastercard limit you to $50 per fill-up while Mastercard’s limit is $75. Guess it is time to look at those hybrid cars or wait […]

An article in the July 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine titled…
Make Your WPF Apps Power-Aware
…helps you write software for Windows XP and Vista using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that is power-aware. The author (Andre Mechaud) notes that Vista provides more facilities for providing power information to an application than XP.

You know all those warm power transformers attached to idle electronics gadgets in your home? According to the U.S. Department of Energy, they use about 40 percent of all the electricity used by home electronics. Check out the New York Times article…
Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet