The kind folks over at MIT’s material science department have engineered the M13 virus to create super thin conducting wires that allow for the creation of a battery that could not only be environmentally friendly it might even out-compete today’s leading lithium technologies! Go check the short article about it over at National Geographic.

You can use their form to submit this opinion to your government, join their mailing list, or spread the word to friends. The video below is their recent ad!

As always California is ahead of the game when it comes to new ways to reduce their environmental impacts. The most recent legislative effort will ban the selling of black/dark cars by 2012. This unusual sounding proposal is based on the fact that cars’ environmental systems have to work noticeably harder to cool down in cars with higher radiation collecting properties. The movement is also calling for reflective coatings to be put on new cars that will allow for less solar radiation absorption and in turn less cooling (if you are MPG-aware then you already know how much cranking the AC on full-blast affects your gas economy).

The California Air Resources Board (CARB), has a PDF posted here that shows the results of their testing.

I subscribe to a few great sites like 1sky.org, climateproject.org and wecansolveit.org all of which make efforts to raise awareness through the almighty boob-tube which is all too often slathered with anti-environmental products and services. Some of the more recent ones have been rather popular and even one was directed by an academy award-winning pair of directors! Check them out after the jump.

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Why would you print an email? (why not forward it or save it?) Why would you edit digital images as printouts, then scan them then print them out again and repeat? (why not just edit them digitally) If you ask these sorts of question at your office then you’re under the age of 25 and haven’t been poisoned by the lazy, outdated, habits of the office jockeys of yesteryear.

If you are one of those folks who actually leave their computer on because they think it takes too much energy or time to boot it up then you might want to read this, and start thinking instead of following old examples.

If you are an older manager and wonder why your electrical bill is so much higher than it used to be then you may want to read this.

If you are now an enlightened non-generation-X office worker then you should continue to read my site to reduce your ignorance. For now you can read this or this, for some easy power management tips!

Don’t be an old-fogey, use your brain!