Space? Let's try fixing our problems down here. That's the goal of a clean fuels X Prize with $100 million up for grabs.

X Prize: $100 Million for Clean Fuels - BusinessWeek

The X Prize Foundation made its name handing out $10 million awards for cutting-edge innovation in promising but thinly financed fields of research. But now the Santa Monica (Calif.) foundation is targeting one of the most-crowded contests in technology: the race to discover clean alternatives to fossil fuels.

In its richest and largest competition yet, the foundation will divvy up some $100 million for transformations in biofuels, clean aviation fuel, energy storage, the provision of basic utilities for developing nations, and other categories.

Sony Pictures Uses 'Green Power' For Data Center - InformationWeek

Sony Pictures Entertainment is the first customer of data center operator 365 Main to sign up for a new reusable energy program that's being offered to clients of 365 Main's facility in Chandler, Ariz., via electrical utility company Salt River Project.

Through the Salt River Project's Earthwise Energy program, clients of 365 Main's data center in Chandler, like Sony Pictures, can sign up to power their computer center with "clean" energy sources, including sun, wind, the Earth's heat, flowing water, and decomposing trash from landfills.

Go Vote in Dell's Green Computing Design Competition - WorldChanging

One thing that did impress me, though, was the variety of entries. There weren't just laptops and desktops, there were kiosks, toys, systems, even business plans. It would be great if all contests attracted and appreciated this level of variety (especially in green design, where a business plan for a product service-system can be much greener than a simple product.) Dell was wise to select five winners on equal footing, and in fact, I think the contest could have been left there. But the public portion of the contest is also useful, to see what concepts are most attractive to the market (and thus most likely to be successful if implemented), and to spur more public awareness and debate of green computing.

E-waste...how to reycle or reuse it - Green Business Alliance

If your company has many phones to dispose of, investigate options like ReCellular which will purchase your old cell phones, (with pre-paid postage for over 50 phones) or connect you to charitable programs such as Cell Phones for Soldiers. I read earlier today that the amount of copper wire contained in cell phones disposed of each year could cover the Statue of Liberty, twice over. That’s a lot of copper!

iPhone: Greener Gadget Yes or No? - Treehugger

Recently I wrote a post entitled NYC Bicycle Shelter Parking iPhone Photos: How Street It Is wherein I put up some snaps I grabbed on the fly using said technology. The comments, excerpted below, found my mention of the iPhone by turns "ridiculous," "pretentious," and "lame." So why on (protect the) earth would I even include the word iPhone? Could it be because it is a greener gadget?