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From the monthly archives:
Real Time Noise and Air Quality Monitoring Over Mobile Internet
Air pollution is one of the number one factors that affect our quality of life and health. Currently, pollutants are measured at different stations in a city and that data is aggregated to a single number (the air quality index) and published once a day on [...]
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Oil Giant Shell on Trial for Nigerian Environmentalist Saro-Wiwa’s Execution : Red, Green, and Blue
In 1995, environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military government, along with eight other Ogoni activists, for protesting against the devastation of the Niger Delta by oil companies, particularly Royal Dutch Shell.
On May 27, 2009, Shell will stand trial [...]
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I met James McClelland at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando a couple of weeks back.
We had a great chat about utilities, smart grids and the changing role of software for utility companies which I recorded and am publishing here now.
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Voyage to the centre of the ‘Plastic Vortex’
A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the “Plastic Vortex.”
tags: plastic, plastic gyre, plastic vortex, greenmonktv
US won’t speed up emissions cuts
Domestic politics will [...]
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We are delighted to announce that the first customer for our GreenMonk Sustainable Print Services business is StreamServe – a company which specialises in “dynamic document composition, management and delivery solutions for customer communications”.
StreamServe manage documents (i.e. bills) for many industry verticals such as Telecoms, Utilities, Insurance etc. and help their customers reduce their [...]
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Wind Turbine Design – The Most Amazing Windmills in the World | Wind Power
a selection of pictures and descriptions of some of the most spectacular & truly ambitious wind turbine designs of this millennium…whose scope & promise could pave the way for much greater harnessing of wind energy
tags: wind energy, wind turbines, greenmonktv
America’s new green [...]
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Rich Lechner is IBM’s Vice President of Energy and Environment. I met him at an IBM event and asked if he would agree to do a monthly video update on Energy and Environmental matters. He graciously agreed and this is the 3rd installment.
In this episode Rich discusses bringing all an organisation’s energy information together – [...]
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BPA seeks more smart grid projects partners – Portland Business Journal:
The Bonneville Power Administration has issued its second request for potential partners for smart grid projects that could qualify for federal stimulus money.
tags: smart grid, ARRA
5 Feasible Renewable Energy Sources
One would expect that — over time — the costs associated with renewable energy would go [...]
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