Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
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I came across the Clear Climat Code project via a message from Sig.
Like all good ideas, this one is very simple –
The Clear Climate Code project writes and maintains software for climate modelling and analysis, with an emphasis on clarity and correctness.
The results of some climate-related software are used as the basis [...]
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In Need Of Energy: 3 Paths To Personal Power: From The South Of Spain ~ by Paul Read
An interesting story about getting solar panels installed living in the South of Spain
tags: solar power, home generation
Straight Goods – Ozone hole, again – Chemical lobby weakening ozone treaty.
More than one million new cases of skin cancer are [...]
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MSNBC Interactive
A dynamic Energy map of America showing infor on everything from the grid to biomass, geothermal, wind solar etc.
tags: energy, renewables, map, grid
The Energy Roadmap – Houston, we have a problem! Energy storage
Business Week is reporting that  13 days since Hurricane Ike ripped through Texas, and nearly one-quarter of the residents of the fourth-largest [...]
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Finextra: Visa launches carbon-offset credit card in Europe
Visa has launched a ‘green’ credit card that will enable its business cardholders in Europe to offset the carbon emissions created by the products it is used to pay for.
tags: carbon offset, visa, green credit card
Global carbon emissions rising rapidly: study | Environment | Reuters
The Global Carbon Project [...]
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Photo Credit Thomas Hawk
I see Grist reporting that the US’ first Cap and Trade program went live. Power plant owners in 10 Northeastern states had to submit sealed bids in order to emit greenhouse gases yesterday.
Then the New York Times has a story about an alliance of 7 Western States and 4 Canadian provinces who [...]
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I have written a fair bit here about Bit Miles (the moral imperative to digitise) and business process dematerialisation, so I was particularly interested in a recent trip to Microsoft’s gaming and world simulation division.
What was so relevant?
One area that I believe holds out great promise for this kind of simulation technology is in sustainable [...]
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | UK opposes green aviation target
The UK government is lobbying for aviation to be excluded from an EU target to increase renewable energy.
Documents passed to BBC News reveal that Whitehall wants the industry exempted from a general target of 20% renewable energy by 2020.
It also wants interim targets leading [...]
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A couple of months ago I got the chance to chat with Fujitsu Siemens Computer’s chief technology officer (CTO), Dr Joseph Reger, who leads the company’s sustainability initiatives. We went over a fair amount of ground, but one thing that stuck with me was a new technology that came to the market last month – [...]
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