Rogers Communication announced Friday that they are going to stop deliberately “throttling” bandwidth on certain peer-to-peer file sharing applications like BitTorrents that are used for things like movies and music files. In a letter to the Communications Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission the company said starting in March they will start to remove traffic shaping equipment [...]

Steve Appleton, Micron CEO and chairman, died today at the age of 51 while piloting a small experimental plane near Boise Airport in Idaho. His plane crashed shortly after take-off Friday resulting in death of the head of the Idaho flash memory maker. Appleton, a former motor cross racer and professional pilot, has been Micron’s [...]

This Thursday, search giant Google revealed their energy usage for the first time. Google says that it emits 1.5m tonnes of carbon every year, but were fast to add that their data centers use 50% less energy than the industry average. The emissions numbers are just above the energy usage numbers of the entire country [...]

Newsweek’s Green Rankings looks at the five hundred largest publically traded U.S. based companies. Each company is given a total Green Score, and the Green Score is comprised of three sub scores. What are those sub scores? An Environmental Impact Score (EIS), a Green Policies Score (GPS) and a Reputation Survey Score (RSS). The Environmental [...]

A Japanese research and development company called Eamex has state that they have discovered a method to increase the typical average life of a high-capacity lithium-ion battery. This claimed new technology will allow the demanding batteries to withstand over 10,000 recharges over the timespan of about 20 years. This impressively huge increase in performance is [...]

Lawmakers in California have just introduced a new bill that would require electric utilities to provide grid-scale energy storage in their operations. The bill would call for a capacity of 2.25% of daytime peak demand by 2014 and 5% of peak demand by 2020. A number of different technologies could be included to provide grid [...]

Despite a modest growing concern on the environmental impact of technology, gadgets don’t seem to be getting green enough, fast enough. According to a recent report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) the issue of unrecycled electronics is getting worse and with a massive increase in the amount of electronic gadgets expected to be [...]

While going green has a lot of momentum in various industries, what ultimately really matters for long-term change toward increased sustainability is where the money goes. If buying power demands green technology and green gadgets, that’s what we will see and at a much reduced price. Sadly, a recent survey from Retrevo showed that consumers [...]

Coca-Cola Co. is becoming more environmentally aware by changing the refrigeration industry, replacing its conventional vending machines with a model that has less impact on the planet. Vending machines typically rely on a type of refrigerant known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a chemical 1,430 times more harmful than carbon dioxide. The proof that natural refrigerants work [...]

More stimulus funding is going into green tech research, this time to the tune of $100M courtesy of the Department of Energy (DOE). Last Week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, announced the additional funds stating, “This is about unleashing the American innovation machine to solve the energy and climate challenge, while creating new jobs, new industries [...]