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Saving the environment – trend or passion?

Countless teenagers all over the globe do their part to aid Earth’s ailing environment. They take shorter showers, walk instead of drive and sometimes even sit in total darkness for a full hour. But what compels them to do such things?
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EarthTalk: Water shortage? Lead toys?

Dear EarthTalk: I saw a cover line on a magazine that said, "The next world war will be over water." Tell me we're not really running out of water!‚ -- Nell Fox, Seattle, WA‚  Today fully one-sixth of the wo...
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The “green” [re]drive

It seems like everybody is going green lately, and now we're seeing that trend emerge in the saturated world of external hard drives. Storage solutions provider Fabrik announced the SimpleTech drive, a 500GB...