Tag: Earth Day
Earth Day 2025: Big tech’s water consumption surges 60% since 2020
New analysis reveals a significant surge in water consumption by some of the world’s largest technology companies over the past five years. According to data compiled by Surfshark, Apple, Google, […]
Virgin Media O2 cuts carbon emissions 56% against 2020 levels
To mark Earth Day today (April 22nd), Virgin Media O2 has announced that it has reduced its operational carbon emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 56% compared to its 2020 […]
Tech Digest daily round up: Four astronauts blast off on SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and three crewmates are set to blast off Friday morning aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for a six-month stay at the International Space Station. The […]
Google Doodle designers ‘did not expect’ popularity
The team behind Google Doodles had no idea how popular their small animations would become. Martyn Landi talks to British born Google Doodle artist Matt Cruikshank… Matt Cruikshank, a Google […]
Apple’s recycling robots take 200 iPhones apart EVERY hour
Apple is expanding its environmental programmes by increasing the number of old devices which can be taken apart by its recycling robots as well as opening a new lab to […]
iPod controlled Tree of Souls to mark Earth Day/Avatar release
To mark Earth Day and the DVD release of Avatar, Twentieth Century Fox is erecting a giant interactive replica of the Tree of Souls at Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park. Due to be officially unveiled by Stephen Lang who…
Top eight planet-saving gadgets for Earth Day – don't be mean, be green
If you are as yet to navigate to the Google homepage today, you may be unaware that it’s Earth Day today. Happy Earth Day everyone!
Earth Day is a day as old as the hills – even older. It’s as old as the mud the hills are made from. Earth Day started back in ancient Egypt when the villages on the banks of the Nile would celebrate the annual floods which brought silt deposits to fertilize their land.
In celebration, the villagers would throw the mud at one another in joy and to this day people still mark the event with the giving and receiving of pieces of earth.
Actually, that’s a complete lie but it was a nice story, wasn’t it? No, Earth Day is about awareness of the environment as started in 1970 by a gentleman named Gaylord Nelson and to do our part at Tech Digest we’re going to look at the best Earth-saving gadgets that money can buy…
