Here are some shocking numbers. I warn you in advance that you will feel guilty, even if you are not a perpetrator. In the year 2007, according to the EPA, 770,369 tons of televisions (that’s 1.5 billion pounds) were tossed into landfills. For every 100 televisions discarded that year, 82 were dumped in the trash. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news: for every 100 televisions discarded in 2007, 18 were recycled! That number is up from 2005, when only 15% were recycled. By now you pr

The EPA may re-consider its exemption of "Data Acquisition Mode" (DAM) states from the sleep-mode requirements associated with its Energy Star ratings. So it told noted cryptographer Martin Hellman, who informed the EPA his Linux-based Sony HDTV consumed 150 times its advertised standby power budget.