Viridescence - be green!

Did you know that 2%  [ 1 ] of the total energy consumed in the U.S. is by data centers?  That’s right! In 2014 that equated to 70 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, which equals the same amount of energy used that year by 6.4 million American homes. [ 2 ] The expectation is that energy use will continue to raise at a rate of 4% per year between now and 2020. [ 3 ] That means by 2020 data centers will use 73 billion kWh . That is why before you upload that cute picture of your cat to Facebook or upload your photo album to “the cloud”, you should think twice about the importance of sharing and preserving your photographs compared to the vast quantity of resources used to preserve your memories. Do you know how much water is used by data centers? On average, for every kilowatt hour , a data center uses 1.8 liters of water , which in 2014 equaled 626 billion liters of water. [ 4 ] Most of the water used by data centers is from the generation of...

Founded in 1964, the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex became part of the Willamette Valley Ecoregion (FWS, 2010 and DFW, 2006). The coordinates of the Ankeny Wildlife Refuge are  122 degrees 36 minutes 44 seconds West Longitude, 45 degrees 05 minutes 18 seconds North Latitude (DFW, 2006) situating it between Salem and Albany, Oregon. Ankeny Wildlife Refuge comprises a total of 2,796 acres; 1,765 acres of cropland, which provides forage for wintering geese, 600 acres of riparian forests and 500 acres of shallow water seasonal wetlands (FWS, 2011). A map of Ankeny Wildlife Refuge is available at  http://library.FWS.gov/Refuges/Ankeny_map.pdf . During my research, I was unable to come across any information regarding major changes to the boundaries of the Ankeny Wildlife Refuge.  In the mid-twentieth century, wildlife managers came to the consensus there was a need to take action against the increasing limits imposed on the winter habitats for t...