Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
Many of us are thinking through the implications of greener supply chains.
Al has been giving it some lately, for example, with his thoughts on the Carbon Added Tax. Over at SAP Research Andreas Vogel is leading the charge. IBM is doing some solid work here, as is BT. But we’re beginning to see a [...]
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So ex-SAP executive Shai Agassi’s Project Better Place has managed to pull it off. Former product chief Shai catapulted coolly into DLD in Munich yesterday straight from Jerusalem, where he had launched one of the most curious deals the auto industry has ever seen. He drove out that afternoon. To Davos.
Alongside Israeli Prime Minister [...]
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Its a laudable goal CeBIT would begin the long road to greening by fully supporting the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. But I should point out the power used at trade shows is just absurd – all those banks of screens talking to nobody in particular.
Should we should reconsider the Gizmodo guys as eco-pranksters (have you [...]
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Continuing to play in the Twittersphere, I came across a really interesting service today – called WildlifeDirect. The organisation is evidently making pretty slick use of social media tools. All I recieved was a notification that WildLife Direct was following me, but here I am bringing them to my community.
@WildlifeDirect offers short punchy (140 characters [...]
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20% reduction represents a mighty close shave. silicon.com reports that Mark Blowers, senior research analyst at Butler Group, claims significant cost savings can be achieved by going green in a report entitled Sustainable IT Provision – Meeting the Challenge of Corporate, Social and Environmental Responsibility. I like the sound of it – it [...]
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Probably the most interesting recent news GreenMonk has seen comes from a research project at the US Department of Energy, reported in Computerworld: Pilot program puts “smart” houses on network that adjusts energy use to pricing.
The technology in play included wireless technologies, broadband connections and back-end systems that use a Web-enabled service-oriented architecture for linking [...]
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Earlier this week I wrote a blog about “carbon-added taxation” and magnetic trains, based on conversations on Twitter, a text-based social network that I use. Well today I extended that approach, and I am pretty excited about the results.
With a minimum of fuss, I was able to start capturing the recycling experiences of a constituents [...]
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The Twitter social networking service often kicks off great discussions, and yesterday was a great example, with an exhange about carbon footprints and corporate travel between Craig Cmehil and Alan Wood. I asked Alan to tidy it up as a guest post for greenmonk, to illustrate the great grassroots conversations about economic greening occuring on social networks.
Craig works [...]
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I finished the year applauding Microsoft for assigning responsibility for green issues to a “Green Czar.” But it appears Cisco has also been busy in this regard. According to TechWorld: “Cisco has hired one of the founders of the ‘Green Grid’, Paul Marcoux, to be its new environmental guru.” Marcoux will be “VP of engineering [...]
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