Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
Quite a lot I reckon. Today comes news that UK retailer Marks and Spencer is introducing a 5p charge for plastic bags. That’s a good move – and the company already offers quite snazzy reusable bags at the check out. CEO Stuart Rose is the real thing – driving greenness into the brand by driving [...]
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I am on the plane home from Nice, where I attended the inaugural European VMworld in nearby Cannes. It was an interesting event, and I will be saying more on my about that on my general tech blog monkchips. But I wanted to say a little bit about the ecological value of virtualisation [...]
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Asks Miss Rogue. Its a great question – not that they aren’t out there, I just don’t have names at my fingertips. If you know of any budding Anita Roddicks out there please let me know.
Google came up with one impressive example straight away, from Kate Craig-Wood, a Surrey-based entrepreneur who is evidently on a [...]
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I recently blogged about a figure I had read, that emissions due to IT were in the region of 2% of global totals, but couldn’t find/remember the source. Well the number just popped up again, thanks to a heads up by Local Government 2.0 maven (and RedMonk community platinum card holder) Dominic Campbell.
The estimate in [...]
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Should you consider your impact on the environment when you’re rushing home this evening, hoping to gain a few late brownie points? Grumpy Old Man asks the question.
A bouquet of roses has an ecological footprint of 20 m2 which is the same as driving a car for 20 km. On top of that a lot [...]
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Guest post by hardware hacking industrial design maven: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino.
The dust has settled on this year’s Stevenote and the ripple effect on my side of the planet was that for the first time, sustainability had made a big public appearance on Apple’s agenda. Hardly a leader in the field, but we’ll forgive them [...]
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I am at an event at IBM South Bank looking at some data center futures. The current session is with Christopher O’Connor, vice-president strategy and market management, Tivoli, who just raised an issue that I have been thinking about a lot lately. Just what will it mean to develop greener software? What would a green [...]
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Just after introducing the idea of “Bit Miles” I went to a great session by David Douglas, who heads up Sun’s eco-efforts. I could have got about 50 greenmonk posts out of his one hour session, but to just call out one insight we should applaud Sun’s decisions to get out of the needless dead [...]
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When the IT community talks about shipping bits it is referring to completing software and readying it for deployment. But there’s another way of thinking about shipping bits; if they are nothing more than silent streams of ones and zeros, why are we “shipping” them at all, when networks are a more natural transport [...]
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