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Fuelfrog: track gas mileage and cost

FuelfrogFuelfrog is a web service for tracking your gas mileage and cost-per-gallon trends which can provide insight into your empty wallet. By adding simple information each time you fill up your car, Fuelfrog will chart that data to provide a gas history.

Fuelfrog accepts updates via its website, but it also can accept data via Twitter direct message. Simply add your Twitter account to your Fuelfrog profile and Twitter the miles since your last fill up, price per gallon, and number of gallons purchased to @fuelfrog.

Someday you'll be able to log in to Fuelfrog and tell your children, "See, back in my day I only paid $4.00 for a gallon of gas!"

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How sustainable are you?


Make Me Sustainable from Download Squad on Vimeo.

You know you should go green, you want to make a difference but, how? It's not easy, few things worth doing are. Make Me Sustainable takes an interesting approach to the green problem by giving you a way to track your own impact, and the impact of your influence.

Christina caught up with the guys from Make Me Sustainable during South By Southwest, and they gave us a lot to think about, and a great preview of what you'll find at MakeMeSustainable.com

Hugg: diggs get green

Hugg, diggs get greenWe rarely get through a day without hearing about global warming, and how to make our lives a bit greener. Now Hugg brings it all online.

Hugg, similar to the social news website digg, allows users to vote up and down top news stories. But this site was built by the folks behind the popular eco-blog Treehugger, and it concentrates on green news. With an array of user submitted green news from green gift giving, practical ways to washing clothes and eco-friendly flooring, Hugg is on its way to being your one stop shop for the latest green news and trends in the marketplace.

Categories include architecture, beauty, celebrity, fashion and food. It is a relatively new site that is a bit low on the user submitted news at the moment, but it is growing with at least a few stories hitting the website each day.

So if you're feeling a little green, check in to Hugg to see what the hottest and freshest eco news is of the day.

Google investing in green transportation solutions

Google investing in sustainable transport solutionsGoogle has said it will invest up to $10 million for green transportation solutions through their philanthropic arm.

Google has put out a request for proposals inviting entrepreneurs and companies to make travel greener in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Google.org initiative has grant investment amounts ranging from $500k to $2 million for select companies that can enable a widespread commercialization of hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles of vehicle to grid solutions.

The full Google.org RFP can be found here, with a deadline of October 22nd 2007 for final submissions.

Making the datacenter "Green" is harder than you think

green data centersGoogle and some of the other leading technology companies that depend on large amounts of power are working hard to ensure they are minimizing their power consumptions.

In order to cut down costs of electricity and ensure that systems are running in optimal conditions, many data center's are turning to alternative energy to power their high end systems. Google has fitted the Googleplex to be carbon neutral by investing in renewable energy sources, maximizing efficiency, and by purchasing carbon offsets for the emissions they cannot directly reduce.

ComputerWorld has put together a list targeted at IT professionals that list the top seven tips that will help minimize power consumption, heat, waste and chaos in this time of surging power demands, and extreme environmental awareness.

  1. Typically between 10%-30% of servers can potentially be turned off.
  2. Power management tools are available, but not many administrators don't use them.
  3. Invest in energy efficient servers.
  4. Inefficient power supplies can potentially waste half of the power before it actually gets to the equipment.
  5. Most IT companies are not accountable for efficiency because it gets tucked into the facilities tab, tracking energy directly from the source can help in determining what should change.
  6. Adopt energy efficient standards. Think EnergyStar specifications.
  7. Demand energy efficient IT products. Manufacturers won't design it, if customers don't ask for it.

It's easy being Green with BeGreenNow.com

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I have yet to come across a Web 2.0 application that has to do with environmental awareness like BeGreenNow.com does. This unique online application lets you calculate your current carbon footprint and teaches you how to offset it to help make the world a little greener. BeGreenNow is also a portal that educates and inspires people to influence and help out when it comes to the global climate issues surrounding our world.

To get started, sign up and enter your carbon calculator columns for your emissions in Electricity, Vehicles, Air Travel, and Natural Gas. As you change your routines to help the environment out, you can keep logging back in and updating records to see if your CO2 emissions have improved. A simple graph makes it easier to see what areas you could improve at. In all, it's a nice Green Web 2.0 app.

Google Maps go green

Google's Summer of Green

Google is showing its ecological side with Summer of Green, an attractive Google Maps mashup that, in a partnership with the Earth Day Network, "highlights some planet-friendly travel tips for top U.S. travel destinations as well as how to use Google Maps in your daily routine to find and support green activities." Though the site is a bit overloaded just now (when will Google learn that any site it launches is going to get pummeled?), it's very slick, clean, and easy to use.

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