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Which of Your Toys Will Suck Most Next Year?

Good magazine has whipped up an amazing chart that shows how much energy your electronic toys will suck up next year — even when they're turned off. Most electronics stay in standby mode when turned off, maintaining a clock in a microwave, say, or a timer in your DVR that tells it when to turn on. After the jump, see the full chart showing how much money people in the US will spend next year just to keep devices on standby. It ain't pretty. More »

7:00 AM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Annalee Newitz
229 views, 2 comments

Latest by MirDreams: Ok, except for the plazma TV I don't think that's too bad. I'd like to know what it'd be for other types of TV's. more »

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Are You in a Climate Change Hot Zone?

An international team of scientists has crunched the numbers and predicted which areas of the world will be hit hardest by the effects of climate change. They created this map of the "socioclimatic" future of the world. The reddest areas, which include China, India, and the United States, are in the most danger because they suffer from a deadly combination of social problems and lax policies on toxic emissions (it's no coincidence that all three countries are not signatories to the Kyoto Treaty). Check out the stats for yourself. [Eurekalert] Image by Pamela Burroff-Murr/Diffenbaugh et al./Dan Annarino/NOAA.

7:30 AM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By Annalee Newitz
376 views, 1 comment

Latest by jak2rocks: Aww, damn! I'm in FL and that's part of the 1 out of 2 reddest areas... more »

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Reaping the Flip Flop Harvest on Kenya's Polluted Coast

Plastic flip flop sandals discarded in the oceans off the coast of Asia have formed a new kind of fauna on the coast of Northern Kenya. So many sandals wash ashore that over the past decade locals have begun harvesting them, turning them into colorful toys, and selling them for more money than they could make from fishing, the area's former main industry. After a 2003 documentary, Flip Flotsam, called attention to Kenya's flip flop harvests, a small nonprofit called UniqEco began methodically helping locals ply their craft via the Flip Flop Recycling Project. More »

7:40 AM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Annalee Newitz
35 views, Comment