Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
maribo: Climate change’s third rail
After a fisheries seminar this morning, someone asked what key issue the research and conservation community was missing. The immediate answer from a senior colleague was meat consumption.
Given how growing feed and raising livestock is responsible for a large proportion of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, it is quite amazing that [...]
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Photo Credit Mikey aka DaSkinnyBlackMan
Utilities are top-down.
Whenever I talk to utilities about Smart Grids and Smart Meters they always trot out the same speech. They want to use Demand Response for peak shaving and they want to implement it by having a mechanism whereby they can come in to their customer’s houses at times of [...]
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I came across this great IBM video yesterday via Andy Stanford-Clark.
The video explains, far better than I could ever do, why Smart Grids are a good idea – and to get full value, you need to watch it until the “Dinosaurs ARE pretty cool” comment!
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Can Renewable Energy Be Sustained?
Engineers and entrepreneurs are rushing to explore alternative sources of efficient and renewable energy in New Jersey and elsewhere in the country. A Rutgers School of Business—Camden professor has strong words of caution as projects involving wind farms and photovoltaic cells proliferate.
tags: grid, electranet, electricity, renewable energy, renewables
California to set up [...]
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The Cost of Energy » Blog Archive » ETSD: We’re using fewer electrons (among other things)
An unexpected drop in U.S. electricity consumption has utility companies worried that the trend isn’t a byproduct of the economic downturn, and could reflect a permanent shift in consumption that will require sweeping change in their industry.
tags: etsd, utilities, electricity [...]
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Energy Outlook
The US Geological Survey released a report estimating that 85 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of technically recoverable gas hydrates are accessible on the Alaskan North Slope. If produced over 20 years and combined with the conventional gas supply from the North Slope, which has been waiting for a pipeline south for many years, this [...]
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Fujitsu Siemens announced last week new Eco Labels they are launching for their goods.
Eco labels are something I have written about previously on GreenMonk and I believe they are vital to helping consumers make informed choices when buying electronics.
I was interested in learning more so I invited their head of Green IT, Dr. Bernd [...]
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Save Energy Star before it becomes a Black Hole
The U.S. government’s Energy Star program is in trouble. Despite all the media references it garners, the program is failing the American public and, without serious intervention, will collapse in on itself to become a black hole of irrelevance and wasted resources.
tags: energy star, epa, doe, [...]
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Tom Raftery: ‘El futuro pasa por la gestión energética inteligente’ | elmundo.es
Tom Raftery no es un nombre demasiado conocido, aunque no para de dar conferencias por diversas partes del mundo, desde BerlÃn hasta Nueva York.
Su última parada ha sido Sevilla para debatir en el EBE (Evento Blog España) de un concepto relativamente nuevo, el GRID [...]
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