The following Five Friday Facts come courtesy of Wild Blue Yonder In-flight Magazine (May/June 2010). These facts are all about trade shows and conventions. According to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, there are 14,000 trade shows and exhibitions in the U.S. and Canada each year. Comprised of 11,000 industry events and 3,000 consumer shows, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘iPod/iPhone App’
Great Hiking and Biking Tools in Google Earth 5.2
June 15th, 2010 
Justin Manger The newest version of the Google Earth desktop application software allows you to visualize your hiking, biking, and running routes. Since Google Earth version 5.0, you could connect your GPS device directly to Google Earth. This latest update brings the ability to view elevation, speed, and other data from your outings as a graph directly in Google [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conservation, Justin Manger, Local Energy/Food, Transportation 
Tags: Google, iPod/iPhone App 
No Comments »Using GPS to Catch The Bus
June 10th, 2010 Eric Wilson Although technology has yet to provide the “holy grail” of clean energy or efficiency, companies like Bloom Energy and products like the smart meter may help lay the foundation of a clean energy future. A recent story from public radio international’s Marketplace introduces (brings up) an existing technology that may increase public transportation ridership while [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Bloom Energy, Bus, Holy Grail, iPod/iPhone App, Public Transit, Smart Meter, Washington DC No Comments »Can the iPhone Increase Gas Mileage?
March 9th, 2009 admin The clean energy revolution will largely use technology to achieve its objectives. The smart meter and smart grid, for instance, will take advantage of computer power and the internet to allow much more specific and useful feedback on electricity usage. Increasingly, the digital revolution and the clean energy revolution will overlap. Take cellphones, for example. [...]
