On this page the following entries were made in the “November, 2007” time-frame.
Archive for “November, 2007”
Protesting Citi Bank and Bank of America
Thousands of activists across the U.S. turned out to protest Citi Bank and Bank of America’s investments in new coal-fired power plants and dirty coal extraction methods such as mountaintop removal coal mining. Here are a few pictures from the San Fransisco protest and a video about the threats of mountaintop removal coal […]
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San Francisco Turns Grease into Fuel
The city of San Francisco recently reminded me of why she is one of my favorites after launching “SFGreasecycle” on November 20th, the nation’s first city-wide effort to collect grease from city restaurants. The program is expected to generate about 1.5 million gallons of biodiesel and 59 restaurants have already signed up. I expect more […]
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Green Ranking of Supercomputers
The TOP500 list, which ranks the world’s supercomputers in terms of “teraflops,” or trillions of calculations per second, is released twice a year in June and November. That list is currently led by a supercomputer at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with a peak speed of more than 596 teraflops. But the November 2007 […]
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