Today’s New York Times has published photographs of the hand signals used by traders in open outcry trading markets. The signals are modeled by Raymond Carbone, an oil trader, and are those used on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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A revolutionary alternative to mini wind powered generators has been introduced in this year’s Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Conference. Ecogeek.org has reported on the “wind belt”, which works differently to conventional turbine wind-powered generator. Instead of a turbine, the new approach consists of a birdge made out of a taut kite fabric which vibrates in the [...]

Dumped - a new reality documentary series was aired, featuring 11 members of the public with different views on the environment whom were placed on one of Britain’s biggest landfills for three weeks. Their mission: to live off the garbage that we all throw out everyday. They have to eat off, wear and build shelter [...]

According to a post on Nature journal’s ClimateFeedback blog, Google has developed a black-screen version of its search page, as a way to save power.
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. . . make money, and ALSO help reduce carbon emissions.
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