GreenMonk news roundup 05/30/2009

• Real Time Noise and Air Quality Monitoring Over Mobile Internet

  Air pollution is one of the number one factors that affect our quality of life and health. Currently, pollutants are measured at different stations in a city and that data is aggregated to a single number (the air quality index) and published once a day on a website. There is not enough data that gets gathered to evaluate air quality in a given neighborhood and that data is hard to find. Now a European company called Sensaris is using Bluetooth wireless sensors, used in combination with mobile phones, that allow citizens to monitor and report air and sound quality data. Its first large scale deployment is in Paris.

  tags: greenmonktv, air quality, pollution, air pollution, sensaris

• Coming Soon: A New Eco-Label for TVs – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com

  Consumers shopping for a new television may soon have another criterion to consider beyond price, screen size and picture quality: the set’s environmental impact.

  tags: tv, epeat, energy star, greenmonktv

• ‘Crazy Turtle Woman’ transforms graveyard into maternity ward – CNN.com

  With its white sand and clear, blue water, Trinidad’s Matura Beach looks like a postcard. It’s a far cry from its recent past, when leatherback sea turtle carcasses littered the ground and kept tourists away. Saddened and frustrated, Baptiste launched a crusade to help end the slaughter of the gentle giants. Today, she and her group are succeeding: What was once a turtle graveyard is now a maternity ward — one of the largest leatherback nesting colonies in the world.

  tags: trinidad, turtles, leatherback, greenmonktv

• Eco Tech: Scientists To Recreate Stars On Earth For Limitless Energy – Ecofriend

  It might look as if its defying the energy laws of physics, but scientists at the National Ignition Facility have got it all set up for the world’s first machine, powered by the world’s largest lasers to produce more energy that it consumes.

  tags: fusion, national ignition facility, laser, greenmonktv

• Greener Commutes: Volvo Employees Track Carbon Emissions With Mobile CO2 Pedometer App | Sustainability | Fast Company

  Employees at the Volvo Group in Göteborg, Sweden have been asked to reach a new level of carbon emissions obsession with personal cell phone-based CO2 “pedometers” that calculate the emissions of their daily commutes.

  tags: volvo, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, pedometer, mobile, greenmonktv

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