If you’re having trouble creating a social media strategy centered around your green efforts, I’d like to point you to a couple of pieces in The Guardian that can help set you on the right path. The first is a roundup of highlights from a live Q&A on using social media to communicate sustainability. The […]
Top 10: Most popular ecoINSITE posts of 2010
It’s that time. Before we welcome a brand new year, here are 2010’s most popular posts according to you! 1. Stats of the Day: BP Oil Spill Google Results Back in June, I ran a little experiment. In terms of Google search results, how did BP’s recent oil spill compare against the previous top environmental […]
Oil spill’s spread simulated on Intel’s green supercomputer
Oh, the irony! Intel’s supercomputer, called the Encanto and ranking number 32 on the Green500 list, was called into service to forecast the spread of oil from the Gulf of Mexico. Consisting of 3,500 quad-core Xeon processors, the 28-cabinet, water-cooled system helped the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) predict the spread of undersea oil […]
An Interwebs Oil Spill
What if BP’s oil spill sullied the pipes of the Intertubes? It could could look something like this. A Cleaner Future’s Instant Oil Spill allows visitors to BP-ify their favorite sites. As you can see in the screenshot above,…
Stats of the Day: BP Oil Spill Google Results
As of today, these are the number of Google search results (general Web, not News, Images, Blogs, etc.) for the BP oil spill versus the Exxon Valdez oil spill. As you can see below, BP is catching up to…
