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  • A look inside China's most notorious e-waste town

    A look inside China's most notorious e-waste town

    Guiyu is the town in China where your old electronics go to die. For years, it's been one of the main locations in the world where PCs, phone and other discarded products are shipped in to be pulled apart and recycled. The work is dirty and even hazardous, but lately Guiyu has been trying to clean up its act. Following is a slideshow to give you an idea what it's like.

    A look inside China's most notorious e-waste town
  • Life at an iPhone factory in China

    Life at an iPhone factory in China

    Foxconn is transforming the area around its factory in Zhengzhou, China. Here's a visual tour of the scene.

    Life at an iPhone factory in China
  • A look around Greenpeace's unique Rainbow Warrior

    A look around Greenpeace's unique Rainbow Warrior

    Greenpeace brought it's new Rainbow Warrior ship to the San Francisco Bay this week and we got a chance to have a look around. The first campaign ship purpose built for Greenpeace, it was launched in 2011 and is unique in many ways. It has towering, 53-meter A-frame masts that allow it to carry more sail than other ships its size, and the helicopter pad at the stern is highly unusual for a sailing vessel. Here's a slide show that gives a look around the ship and provides more information

    A look around Greenpeace's unique Rainbow Warrior
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  • Tech's looming battle against rising energy costs

    IT has gotten a bad rap when it comes to energy consumption. Walk into any datacenter, and you can almost feel the carbon emissions leaking into the atmosphere. However, research shows that the datacenter actually accounts for a very small percentage of a company's overall energy usage. And businesses are missing the other significant opportunities where they could cut energy usages -- and costs. Ironically, the same IT department that is reducing energy usage in the datacenter could lead the energy-savings initiatives across the enterprise.

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