Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
Here is the chatstream from yesterday’s Energy & Sustainability show (above) – there were a couple of technical hitches which I have now sorted out and which shouldn’t present problems next week:
03:31 Tom Raftery: Do we have audio & video
03:32 cgarvey: yup, both working
03:34 SukiFuller: I’m gonna be listening but not able to [...]
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Hara Software, a software company with the tagline Know your impact. Change the World, launched their Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) solution at the start of this month. The Hara EEM is a software as a service solution which enables organizations to monitor and manage their natural resource consumption and environmental impact.
According to the release [...]
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Algasol Renewables: Proprietary low-cost algae photobioreactor for biofuels
Algasol Renewables SL is a focused technology development company located in a science park, ParcBIT, in the Balearic Islands (Spain) with a unique technology for low-cost cultivation of micro algae in a closed environment – a technology that can be deployed both on land, in the desert and [...]
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Global warming causing mass migration – UPI.com
Global warming will submerge island states, destroy farmland and force millions of people into migration by 2050, according to a report unveiled at climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany.
tags: climate change, global warming, sea level rise, greenmonktv
UPDATE 1-Nissan sees big U.S. electric car output by 2012 | Industries | Consumer [...]
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The idea behind “offsetting” carbon emissions is that, while you are emitting some carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as a result of your activities, you can counterbalance these emissions by contributing to a project somewhere else that will reduce emissions. While this idea is most prevalent in relation to air travel, people [...]
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Using Corporate Social Responsibility to Win the War for Talent « MIT Sloan Management Review
It is by now an article of faith that employees who are skilled, creative and driven to satisfy customers are essential for differentiating a company from its competitors. Increasingly, success comes from being able to attract, motivate and retain a talented [...]
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European airport group pledges to cut CO2 to zero | Green Business | Reuters
Thirty-one European airports including Paris Charles de Gaulle launched a joint program on Tuesday to cut their carbon dioxide emissions to zero, airports body ACI Europe said.
tags: aci, aci europe, co2, carbon neutral, airport, greenmonktv
Amazon destruction not a good look for anyone [...]
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Last week I wrote a post in response to Dennis Howlett’s ZDNet article questioning the causes of climate change and therefore our reactions to it.
I also mentioned Dennis’ post in last week’s Energy and Sustainability show so Dennis contacted me and asked for an opportunity to come on the show to put forward his [...]
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One of the more interesting sessions at the European Future Energy Forum was the one on Green building (in fact it was two back to back sessions, one titled Green building and the second was titled Energy Efficiency in Commercial and public spaces).
Not surprisingly, given their heavy involvement in the organisation of the event, both [...]
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