Yesterday was recycling day here at RedPost, with ADEC coming to pick up our e-waste and BetterWorld Books emptying out our book recycling bin we host. ADEC picked up 7 CPUs, 12 TVs, 22 CRTs, 24 printers, 10 VCR/DVD players/stereos, 3 microwaves and a host of other electronics. BetterWorld Books collected well over 100 books [...]
Email signatures really have got out of hand. They started out as a nifty feature way back in the 90s where you could predefine signatures for your email messages so you wouldn’t have to copy and paste something standard every time you wrote an email. But they’re really out of hand. They’ve gotten so long, [...]
One thing I love about the emerging web world is that there are no longer these huge 1.0, 2.0 etc. feature releases. While there are occasional large upgrades to websites, usually, new features come as they’re developed. Like WalkScore’s new comparison feature which tells you what your score is like relative to the rest of [...]
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We’re doing a trial run with ADEC, a local non-profit who’s mission is “Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities.” ADEC disassembles the electronics at their facility in Elkhart; they recently received a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to do so. After the trial run, we’ll see if we [...]
RedPost/Recycle, which is currently closed due to being too successful, taking too much electronics and not having a sustainable funding mechanism, is maybe this to-rename-unnamed facility in Columbus, Ohio, which I scoped out this week? It remains to be seen. If it does happen, we’d be able to offer free recycling through a local non-profit [...]
I just got an email that my local bank, Goshen Community Bank, which has been awesome to work with, by the way, is upgrading their online banking system with lots of new, exciting features:
?Get up-to-the-minute updates on cashed checks, electronic transactions, in-bank cash deposits, a account transfers and Bill Pay transactions (up-to-the-minute ATM/debit card transactions [...]
This is huge (hat tip: Treehugger). Wal-Mart has a massive influence on the U.S. manufacturing supply chain, from raw materials to store shelf. They’re starting the process to measure the sustainability of all their products. This will have ripple effects throughout the entire manufacturing and supply chain industry in the U.S. over the next couple years, [...]
WalkScore is this nifty little website I blogged about back in 2007 — it gives you a numerical rating of the walkability of a location (our office is an 89, what’s your home/office?), with certain limitations, the main one being that it calculates distances based on how the crow flies, so, if there’s a lake [...]
My Jetta TDI (Turbocharged Direct Injection) is having issues, in that the turbo, created by a turbocharger (pictured at right), is no longer working. The turbocharger takes compressed air and a lot of gas and, like the name says, injects a turbo boost into the engine, giving my TDI a nice little boost from about [...]
WNIT, our local PBS affiliate, organized Green Expo 2009 yesterday in South Bend. Lucid Energy was there with a RedPost/Sign at their booth showing off pictures of their water turbines: