You may not realise it, but every Internet search that you make has an impact on the environment. Your query races back to a server which uses electricity to run processors in huge, power-hungry server farms that spit out your query before returning it to you. The more searches we do, the greater the environmental impact. While Google is investing is green tech likewindfarmsandsolar plantsto boost its green credentials, another more direct approach that we users can make is to switch to a ‘green’ search engine....

The U.K. recycles 5 million phones per year. But in the U.S., we recycle less than a million per year, and our total market is 4 times larger. So why are we so behind? “Pay as you go phones are big in the UK, so people are constantly turning over phones. But it boils down to an awareness issue; we have more of a throwaway culture in the U.S,” says Nik Raman a Harvard Business School graduate and the Founder ofEcoSquid, an online startup that is fast becoming the easiest and most sensical way to recycle gadgets....

Edinburgh plans to make its public transit net-zero by 2030 — here’s how Future development The plan is aligned with the forthcomingCity Plan 2030, the council’s second Local Development Plan, which aims to transform the city’s overall development and manage Edinburgh’s growth. The city carried out a public engagement campaign in 2018 to gather ideas on new policy measures and has incorporated this feedback on how to improve public transport provision, cycling, walking, and electric vehicle infrastructure, and reduce the volume of polluting traffic in the city....

Sometimes you just want to edit your website with minimal fuss. Who wants to navigate a complex content management system when you just want to add some images or a video, or just change some text? SiteCakeis a brilliant tool for editing websites without touching the back-end at all. You simply type directly onto the page, dragging and dropping new elements as you need them. As the video here shows, it’s really easy to throw together new elements for a page and publish them for the world to see with minimum fuss....

Already the epicenter of tech innovation and venture capital investment, San Francisco is poised to become heart of a new industry that will be powered by the Internet. And unlike me-too food apps and daily deals websites, education is more than a hot fad. American taxpayers invested more than $536 billion on K-12 education between 2005 and 2006, according to theU.S. Department of Education, with an additional $373 billion in taxes going to fund higher education nationwide....