Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
I am really liking this announcement from Microsoft and The Clinton Foundation. Rather than trying to push top down initiatives, its designed to support local government organisations that want to reduce carbon emissions. Its a very greenmonky story at first glance -
“The Clinton Foundation and Microsoft Corp. today announced a long-term partnership to develop a [...]
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Anyone trying to make sense of the opportunity to apply the principles of open source to opportunities wider than just software needs to listen to the recent series of Reith Lectures, broadcast by BBC Radio 4.
The Beeb’s curious podcast policy means that the archives are only accessible via its radio player, but right now you [...]
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It seems we’re going through a purple patch of the ‘greening’ of design right now – from Bill McDonough’s now well know ‘Cradel to Cradel ‘ design ideology (watch the great video from TED here for a 20 minute insight) through to GM’s plug-in Chevy Volt – a car designed around its ‘green’ powertrain. The [...]
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Its not just the middle classes that travel these days… but according to this interesting research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as reported by the BBC, we should possibly worry more about buildings than transport.
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via worldchanging comes news of openecosource.org
“Our mission is to create a web base tool, which will help speed up the distribution of available knowledge and connect efforts that aim to create a sustainable environment.”
How cool is that – someone else focusing on Green From The Roots Up. Greenmonk is also about applying open source methods [...]
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One of the reason we chose the name Greenmonk Associates is that this blog is about the associated community. With no community there will be no Greenmonk. Community drives serendipity.
Example1: This morning I got into the office and found an interesting link on my Monkchips blog – as part of a comment on a completely [...]
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Like Cote I am already somewhat bored by the green data center frenzy but I do think the broad structural changes and new methods and approaches we’re finding in the software and Internet industries are extremely relevant to the environmental problems facing us all. Open source really does change everything. So does powerful cheap social [...]
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