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EarthTalk: Impact of Spending Time Online

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Dear EarthTalk: What is the environmental impact of so many people now using sites like Facebook and spending so much time online? Google, Facebook, and Amazon.com are already deeply committed to the cloud computing model, with Microsoft, Yahoo and others following suit accordingly. – Bob Yearling, Paris, TX.

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Smartphones May Soon Double As Air Pollution Monitors

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An application like CitiSense is just one more way that modern smartphones and tablets are proving themselves to be good for more than just Twitter and Facebook, and might make that iPhone insurance really worth the money you paid for it. Five Carbon Footprint Saving iPhone Apps for Business.