Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
Dell is now rolling out a new waste disposal services for SMBs, including free curbside pickup.
I have a feeling the service is only available in the US for now, which is a shame. But well done Dell.
Programmable Web writes up the open source, open data AMEE carbon calculator.
I recently covered freecycle… a service to help people offload [...]
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Or just blog more about it? I have to admit I was really surprised by the findings from this research from Umbria, a blog strip-mining service. Given its now commonly accepted the blogosphere is pretty well split between the sexes, I couldn’t work out why “Almost six in 10 mentions were from males, indexing far [...]
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When I first heard about BadBuster a lightbulb went off (energy-saving of course). Sustainability rating in real time, something like the way FT.com now turns every company name into an AJAX-based live share price widget… but in this case with an ethical dimension.
The idea behind BadBuster is that when you come across a brand or [...]
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Its Friday afternoon, so a bit of fun is always good. I was taken with this photo story.
The Met Office is taking part in a global programme to monitor the world’s oceans to improve understanding of how they influence climate change.
The Argo programme uses thousands of floating devices like the one pictured, which provide continuous [...]
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I saw a tweet from @derekabdinor the other day that intrigued me, so I went to check out the Jungle Rating site. The consultancy has just published ratings which aim for a view of how firms included on the DJSI STOXX Dow Jones sustainability index perform in online sustainability reporting. The idea is to create a [...]
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greenbang is one of my favourite ecoblogs. I was particularly taken with its recent Q&A series with Simon Mills – the sustainable development coordinator for the City of London Corporation, which manages affairs in the Square Mile. His answers are a model of clarity- evidently Simon is not a politician. I like the way his [...]
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Very interesting idea here from Sky TV in the UK. They are getting customers to vote for which charities they should support. The charities have created videos about their efforts, which you can then vote for. This is the second cool green thing I have seen Sky involved in in as many weeks. Sky [...]
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Well you didn’t think I meant me, did you? I must admit I couldn’t resist the headline Governors links with Google energy savings initiative from Computerworld today:
The governors of Kansas and Minnesota said that they are willing to spend the required additional $30 per computer when the states buy their more than 4,000 PCs [...]
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I just got back from Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona. The company’s new strategy seems to be… if it moves virtualise it, if it doesn’t move virtualise it anyway, and if its virtualised already then virtualise it some more and manage it. Microsoft is determined to lose a reputation for workload inefficiency, and [...]
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