Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
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
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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 was unaware that he recorded it.
He published the video above this afternoon so for all those who were interested, here you go…
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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), which are potent greenhouse gases.
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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 even have a derogatory word for inefficient code - they call it bloatware!. In other words, the best code is the most efficient. To me this screams Green!
We talked about this and then got SAP to commit to having their next Hacker night be a Green themed hacker night! Win!
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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 about demand response, smart grids, renewables etc. and it received extremely positive feedback so I thought I’d share the slide deck here for anyone who may be interested.
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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.
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