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Apple’s Environment-Related Vows Renewed by CEO Tim Cook

Leigh Hutchens — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:51:42 +0000

In the past, Apple has been accused of not obeying commonsense environmental rules, but that was when Steve Jobs was their master chef. Tim Cook seems to have turned a new corner in his role as Apple’s CEO. More than a year ago, Cook had just inherited the company from the iconic founder, a man so deified that […]

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Rice Husks Making Cement Become Less Of a Polluter

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:03:27 +0000

Cement is made by heating limestone with clay at high temperatures, and is responsible for 5 percent of the global carbon dioxide emissions, with a ton of CO2 released for every ton of cement produced. To reduce that figure, a team of researchers from the University of Dundee in UK, developed an environmentally-friendly cement made of waste organic materials, such as rice husks.

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Cheap Printable Batteries Designed for Low Consumption Applications

Cristi — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:37:57 +0000

A team of researchers from Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS in Chemnitz and their colleagues from TU Chemnitz and Menippos GmbH have recently developed a printable battery which is environmentally friendly as it contains no mercury.

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