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Happy First Birthday EcoGeek!

Hank Green

One year ago today EcoGeek published it's first set of articles. Since then we've brought our readers over 500 articles covering the coolest gadgets, the most world-changing trends, and news from the biggest corporations, and the smallest startups.

And you've responded. Thousands of folks subscribe to our weekly newsletter and the site RSS feed. EcoGeek articles have been read one million times! We've just taken on four new writers, and there are more to come.

Even with all that great news we've got more in store. Keep your eyes on EcoGeek in the next few weeks to see some very cool content and updates to the site. The redesign was just the beginning.

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Big Blue Going Green Big

Dave Burdick

World champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM's chess computational apparatus Deep Blue in a match in 1996, then lost in 1997. Man, was he miffed at IBM. He demanded a rematch, a look at the log files... all kinds of stuff.

Well, EcoGeek doesn't have access to Kasparov's carbon footprint logs, but we suspect that if he's as competetive about being ecogeeky as he is about being chessgeeky, he's about to turn red over IBM's new green initiative, Big Green Innovations, because it is going to kick his grandmaster ass in corporate carbon emissions reduction worldwide.

IBM is hoping to make a buck or two bazillion on businesses trying to get all green 'n' everything. It's convenient that huge corporations that could buy and sell EcoGeek and all of our belongings a hundred times per second have seen the way to profits through cleaner technology.

The path to the future has to be lined with money sometimes, just to get people going in that direction. Why, just look at this gripping from a CNET News.com story:

"There is a demand for people to understand how to account for carbon, how to reduce energy usage, because IBM's already done a tremendous job internally," Davies said. "I haven't seen too many people offering services focused on how you do this on the ground."

Demand! Services! Yes, well, whatever the motivation, off they go into the world of measuring and reducing carbon emissions and other waste for big companies, and we'll all be better off for it.

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State of the Union Analysis

Hank Green

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Number of times GW Has Said "Iraq" in State of the Union Speeches: 124
Number of times GW Has Said "Climate Change" in State of the Union Speeches: 1

So which one is a more important issue in this country? Whether you enjoy Bush or want to take the black pill whenever you hear his voice, the State of the Union address is important to watch. I, for one, enjoyed his speech, and while I spent most of the time pausing on Tivo so my family could rant about his policies, it was nice to hear the man talk without the force of a majority behind him.

This fairly mild State of the Union had comparatively little that I expressly disagree with, and I think that a Texas oil man proposing a decrease in oil consumption is frankly remarkable.

Stephen Hawking: Another Geek Gone Eco

Hank Green

No big story here, but Stephen Hawking, who has previously called for manned exploration of space in an attempt to get all our eggs out of this one basket, says that global warming is a far greater threat than terrorism. Hawking made his remarks as a coalition of scientists pushed the 'doomsday clock' (an unnecessary and extremely frightening representation of our nearness to apocalypse) forward a couple seconds closer to midnight. At the ceremony, Hawking said, "as citizens of the world, we have a duty to alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day."

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Search Engine Optimizers Going After Climate Change

Hank Green

The first every SEO world championship has begun. The competition surrounds two words that aren't quite words 'Globalwarming' and 'awareness2007.' The entire SEO community is now scrambling to create the most highly rated websites for those two terms. The winner will have the highest ranked site on major search engines when users search for "globawarming awareness2007."

Search Engine Optimization is kinda a dirty game, where people vie for keywords with sites designed, not for people, but for algorithms. The results can be seen now by searching for "globalwarming awareness2007." The sites aren't really global warming resources and they aren't very pretty to look at. But that's not what pure SEO is about. Real search engine optimization utilizes forms of this dirty SEO, but it also draws links and traffic by having great content. So far, none of these sites are going after that angle.

But still, it's pretty cool that they chose keywords with a grander meaning. From their press release, "targeting a significant cause as well as trying to make a global difference. The project focuses on creating world consciousness of our continuous planet heat rise."

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