Set aside for a moment the vagueness of “green,” and let’s ask a different question.  In an era where travel is being replaced by virtual conferencing, shopping by eCommerce, and partying by Second Life, what is the carbon cost of all of our time online?
I wrote a piece over at eCo Times which ran last […]

The launch of CERN’s Large Hadron Supercollider (wikipedia, NYT) has a strange bedfellow, which has been in development almost as long. A “new” internet, capable of handling the enormous amount of data that the Supercollider produces, has been on everyone’s background radar for some time.

Here’s the recent engadget piece for those with limited attention […]