Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
I realise Greenmonk is not about green data centers, but I am at an IBM conference and its a core issue here. I am going to do writing it up in some depth, but I called out IBM’s efforts in a blog here, titled Globalisation’s Green Core.
One issue that absolutely screamed at me however, which [...]
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Greenmonk: Save The World or Get Rich Tryin’. I must get some t-shirts made up with that slogan – If I do would you like one?
Reuters concurs, according to ecototality, based on a quote from Deutsche Bank.
“The climate change markets are being created by governments through their regulation,†said Mark Fulton, tbank’s (Deutsche Bank) global [...]
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I got a tweetback today from @michaeldestries so I went to check out who he is. It turns out a green enterpreneur and consultant. So far so good. So what’s the ecorazzi thing then, I wondered? When I got to the site I was floored. Its basically a perfectly executed celebrity gossip site – but [...]
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Great piece today at movementdesign’s re*move blog about Toyota. It tells us a lot about bright green, and the danger of kneejerk reactions. There are plenty of lessons for any industry there.
Right now there’s a petition going on in the States, calling for Toyota to support a proposed bill requiring ‘CAFE’ fleet average ‘gas mileage’ [...]
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Matt Biddulph, “celebrity programmer”, Dopplr CTO, office-sharing mate, and all round good egg recently told me about Freecycle. He had used the service to “get rid off” a bunch and Sight and Sound magazines, a DVD player, and Sky+ settop box. All of these objects went to good homes, which is the goal of the [...]
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ComputerWorldUK’s Green Zone has a new blogger, Cassandra, “a highly experienced IT manager with more professional certificates than any sane person would put down on a CV, and who no one listens to until the things they were warned about really do go wrong… ”
Here Cassandra points out that for all the talk of new [...]
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I have written about BT and its sustainability efforts before, parts 1 and 2, but the firm is not resting on its laurels. Far from it. So I thought an update would be appropriate.
Firstly BT has decided it needs to invest more in its own power generation capabilities with a wind farm program aimed at [...]
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Given its commitment to incredible industrial design, its a real shame that Apple doesn’t appear to be showing any leadership on green issues in product development. According to Techworld, a Computerworld publication:
Greenpeace has slammed Apple’s iPhone, saying it includes toxic chemicals that other mobile phone makers have already stopped using.
An analysis of a disassembled iPhone [...]
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Luis Suarez reminded Dennis, who re-reminded me, that yesterday was Blog Action Day. Luis works at IBM. He is a social software maven, an all round good guy, and an obsessive twitterer. But he also has a life-its always great to hear him planning a weekend of first life activities-he really loves Fridays. Really loves [...]
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