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...Google's move into the operating-system space, long dominated by Microsoft, is not good news for Redmond, Wash. The last thing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer needs is to compete against Google's (presumably) free operating system, which supposedly can drive anything from a netbook...
That's why it really makes sense for Google to come out with a free operating system. Google needs to keep the Web humming, and what better way than to ensure that there are plenty of supercheap Web tablets out there? It must be odd these days to be Eric Schmidt. Not only is he Google's CEO, but he's a board member of Apple...
...using less electricity or by installing energy-efficient technology, like better boilers and compact fluorescent lightbulbs, the site will calculate how much carbon you've saved. Those translate into carbon credits of 1 ton of CO2 avoided. The company certifies the credits and brokers the sale. "This is a system that incentivizes you to save energy on a personal level," says Paul Herrgesell, project manager for My Emissions Exchange. "This aligns with your economic interests and encourages you to reduce consumption...
...July 6 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by a team of researchers at Princeton University offers a possible way out of the diplomatic dead end. Instead of simply considering carbon emissions on a national or per capita level, the Princeton team proposes a more granular system of climate accounting that would examine the range of individual emissions within countries. Thanks to economic growth, there are well-off people in almost every nation in the world - and the global middle class and wealthy, in India or Indiana, are responsible for most of the carbon emissions heating...
...procedures. The idea is that if hospitals and doctors are paid out of the same pot, they'll coordinate services to be more efficient and cost-effective. The results could help determine how aggressively the Federal Government will end up pushing the bundled-payment model onto the entire Medicare system...