Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
I love this ad. It demonstrates that not only has IBM a sense of humour but also that they have the right story – today, with soaring energy prices, Green is where economic and ecological concerns converge.
Last year IBM announced Project Big Green. This was a commitment by IBM to re-direct $1 billion USD per [...]
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Chris Morrisson has a post on the VentureBeat blog extolling a heavily self-funded startup called Algenol Biofuels which is using algae to produce ethanol for use as a fuel.
The company is about to build a refinery in Mexico to produce:
a jaw-dropping billion gallons a year of ethanol by the end of 2012
In the [...]
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Yes, you read the title correctly and no, NegaWatt is not one of my normal typos!
What then is a NegaWatt? A NegaWatt, is a MegaWatt of electricity that you don’t use! Huh?
Think of it like this, suppose a utility company has 100MW to supply.
Now let’s say their typical demand is 90MW.
If a [...]
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The traditional look of windfarms, like the one above, could be changing if an article I read on News.com recently is anything to go by. The piece was about a new type of wind turbine from a company called FloDesign.
The devices have:
-shorter sturdier rotors so the turbines can be placed closer together. [...]
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photo credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
You may not be familiar with the term food miles. Wikipedia describes it thus:
“The point was to highlight the hidden ecological, social and economic consequences of food production to consumers in a simple way, one which had objective reality but also connotations.â€
Many people are very skeptical about the “hidden costs [...]
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James had a post here a couple of weeks back asking “Are Games Consoles Really Gas Guzzlers?“. This was in response to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald where Greenpeace accused games console vendors of ignoring environmental concerns.
James correctly pointed out that the story was light on specifics – there was [...]
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I read the International Energy Agency’s latest Energy Technology Perspectives 2008 report and it is sobering stuff.
It starts off by outlining what will happen in a business as usual scenario:
Our current path is not sustainable
If governments around the world continue with policies in place to date – the underlying premise in the ETP [...]
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