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Green computing: Hope or hype?
Hard to say, but Zonbu has clearly done its homework |
JMG |
17 Jul 2007 |
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| A lot of the deepest environmental thinking is that we have to move away from the idea of purchasing consumer products and instead keep 'ownership' with the maker, who is responsible for minimizing the environmental footprint of the product and for dealing with it when the user is ready to move to another one. In other words, we should pay for the services we want (computing, hot water, power, cool air, comfortable office floors, etc.) rather than the devices used to provid ... |
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| Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green living, green products, tech (all these topics) |
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