The next step in virtual tree hugging with the Green Map iPhone app
Writing a 'green' story without showing bias towards either contentious camp of weird-beards is about as hard as it gets for a humble blogger -- but I have to try. After all, Download Squad is all about downloads, right? We might be heading for a brutal ice age or sweaty apocalypse -- but either way, even if humanity is near its end, the downloads must go on!
And so I give you Green Map, which ...
The BBC has launched what it's calling "the world's largest ever climate
experiment," a distributed computing project that will use thousands of volunteered home computers, a la
SETI@Home, to predict climate change. The climate experiment, which apparently lacks a snappy name (or any name at
all), utilizes a fancy screensaver that, like other distributed computing projects, uses your ...





