As if we needed MORE reasons to recycle our paper, here comes another: the Universal World House, a $5,000, 390-square-foot modular home, is made of recycled paper and could provide the housing answer to third-world countries, refugee camps and even homeless populations right here in the U.S.
The environmentally-friendly house was invented by Gerd Niemoeller and produced [...]

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I was reading an article the other day on the Sierra Club website.  It was talking bout showing your “Green Pride”  Needless to say it caught my eye.  Beside the title of the article was a multi-shade of green colored flag.  Similar to the rainbow flag that stands for gay pride.
In the article the Sierra [...]

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This does a great job of illustrating junk mail.

Junk Mail PSA – watch more funny videos

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I met Josh Gray from Perfspot about 2 years ago. Since then, the social networking site he runs has more than tripled in size, mostly, according to Josh, because “we just listen to our users”.
There couldn’t be a better example of what the Internet is quickly becoming: a democratic, self-organized environment, where only the strong [...]

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I was grocery shopping in the Navy Commissary recently (a store for military folks), when I noticed a big sign with a picture of a Compact Fluorescent Light bulb (CFL) that said “Change your light bulb, save the world”.  The sign is part of a promotion to raise environmental awareness among military personnel, and I [...]

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The genesis of the Privacy Council project was inspired by a number of mind-boggling statistics: AMERICANS RECEIVE 77 BILLION PIECES OF JUNK MAIL ANNUALLY and THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WILL SPEND EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS/HER LIFE HANDLING JUNK MAIL. Statistics like these have taken hold of me both visually and physically. I have witnessed the stacks [...]

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After all of the articles I’ve written about privacy, security and avoiding the perils of the web, I have at last experienced some of the headache firsthand. My laptop caught a virus, and while it turned out to be nothing major (at least so far), my experience reiterates the need for good protection against what [...]

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We’ve posted many articles about the headaches caused by email spam. But when you think about it, the spam messages we all get in our email inboxes can be as amusing as they are annoying. After all, the ads for “increasing your size” or “cleansing your colon” are often peppered with ridiculous claims, odd grammar, [...]

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