Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
Xerox has long been known for innovation and recently they released a Sustainability Calculator which helps companies realise the savings they will achieve by reductions in the number of printers they have.
The calculator is an online Flash application into which companies can enter information about the printers they have and see the savings they [...]
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I am extremely pleased to announce that Tom Raftery, social craftsman and energy maven, has agreed to become a Greenmonk associate. He will now be a regular contributor to the Greenmonk blog, and we will also work together to build out a related consulting-oriented business. Its very early days for Greenmonk itself, let alone the [...]
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One of the cool things about the twitter messaging platform is that the application programming interface (API) is really easy to use. The truly outstanding thing about twitter though is the amazing range of communities and cool people it has fostered. Greenmonk has a core belief that web technology is allowing a hitherto unprecedented lowering [...]
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Barclays Bank and technology provider HP have just signed a deal to roll out new cooling technology at Barclays’ new Gloucester data center. According to the press release
HP’s Dynamic Smart Cooling (DSC) solution contributes significantly to a package of energy saving measures which will allow Barclays to save up to 13.4% of total energy [...]
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And for my next trick, April 28th I will be mostly be fostering conversations about more efficient energy utilisation at EnergyCamp, an unconference that is set to piggyback on Interop. I am really excited about the event but its a big responsibility – I am going to be the main compere/host. If you’re going to [...]
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I came across an ad today that seemed so outrageous, so very very very wrong, that I just had to click on it. Green memory? Never heard of it, I thought. Pure spin. But when I followed the link to Crucial Memory I had to smile. You see the argument is really simple – don’t [...]
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I can’t say how pleased I am that Thomas Bjelkeman has just received funding for his important AKVO project. I am especially proud and pleased because I serve on the advisory board of Movement Design Bureau, and have helped AKVO co-founder Mark Charmer with his marketing and social software strategies in getting to this point. [...]
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Great blog post today from Tom Raftery: Carbon accounting software – a huge opportunity? Seems like I am not the only one that thinks green tape is going to be a major issue. One way to calculate Bit Miles is with carbon accounting software, and you can be sure we’re going to see Carbon Added [...]
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We’re used to dealing with red tape, but enviromental issues are going to create a mountain of green tape. Some of the legislation and regulation will be called for, some will be pointless. One regulation that SAP talked about this week at an event in Orlando really got me thinking.
First though what is this regulation?
REACH is [...]
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