Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
Earth 3.0: Solutions for Sustainable Progress: In-Depth Reports
Solutions to environmental problems ranging from global warming to peak oil–and how the environment is playing a role in this year’s elections
tags: scientific american, sustainability, sustainable behaviour, peak oil
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Many people have been asking me if there is a video of the presentation I gave at this year’s O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo available anywhere.
I asked the organisers but they said they hadn’t recorded it.
Then my good friend Andrea Vascellari came to the rescue. I knew he had attended the presentation but I [...]
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Ben & Jerry’s: Chilling ice cream without heating the planet – Oct. 22, 2008
environmentalists at Greenpeace have been working with some of the world’s biggest food makers – among them Coca-Cola (KO, Fortune 500), McDonald’s (MCD, Fortune 500) and Unilever – to deploy refrigerators in supermarkets and convenience stores that are free of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), [...]
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At the SAP TechEd 08 conference in Berlin, I had a chance to sit down with SAP’s SDN community evangelist, Craig Cmehil.
We talked about the fact that many coders would consider ‘good code’ to be code which gives maximum functionality in the minimum CPU cycles with the smallest file footprint and minimum memory requirement. Coders [...]
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Electricity 2.0 – Using The Lessons Of the Web To Improve Our Energy Networks
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web2expoeu08 w2eb)
I spoke today at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin and the title of my talk was:
Electricity 2.0 – Using The Lessons Of the Web To Improve Our Energy Networks
The talk was [...]
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WattHead: A Sick Parting Gift: Bush Administration Gutting Protections Against Mountain Top Removal
In a particularly sick parting gift to the people of Appalachia, the Bush Administration is attempting to gut a critical protection against the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining that is decimating mountains, watersheds and communities across the region.
tags: mountain top removal, [...]
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Episode 8 of the GreenMonk Podcasts – 37 mins 32 secs
My guest on this podcast is Greg Cesiel. Greg is the Program Director for the Chevrolet Volt. The Chevrolet Volt is an electric vehicle from General Motors, expected to begin hitting showrooms in the US in 2010.
From the Wikipedia entry:
The company has [...]
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The Edison of our Age: Stan Ovshinsky and the Future of Energy [Video Interview Part 1]
Two years ago, the Economist asked if Ovshinsky wasn’t the Edison of our age.
Ovshinsky holds patents on NiMH batteries, those ubiquitous rechargeable cells. His solar cells powered the MIR space station and, as you’ll hear in the interview, he created [...]
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A couple of interesting announcements were made in Ireland in the last week.
On the 8th of Oct., Eirgrid, the Irish grid operator launched their Grid25 strategy (pdf warning). In the strategy document they announced they are spending €4 billion reinforcing the Irish distribution grid in the expectation of a 60% rise in electricity [...]
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