Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
I am going to start posting numbers based posts regularly on Fridays from now on (as soon as I return from my holidays i.e. from August 26th onwards).
I’d love to hear from people if there is an appetite for these kinds of posts. Feel free to leVe your opinion or suggestions in the comments section [...]
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When I published my video interview of Hara’s CEO Amit Chatterjee, John Clarke, Director of Climate Change Solutions, TRIRIGA left the following comment:
I agree with Amit’s ‘carbon diet’ analogy as it highlights the need for organization to move to a state of ‘carbon heath’. Achieving true carbon health requires a comprehensive [...]
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McKinsey: Energy efficiency could save $700 billion | Green Tech – CNET News
Energy efficiency–it’s not just the low-hanging fruit, it’s the fruit that’s lying on the ground, Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently quipped. Now McKinsey has put a number on the potential savings: $1.2 trillion on an investment of $520 billion over 10 years.
The consulting [...]
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San Jose Leading EV Charge
While San Francisco and Portland are each publicly claiming they’ll have the best electric vehicle networks in place in their cities, San Jose may be have made the most progress.
The city of San Jose has installed 7 charging stations so far, including spots at City Hall and a public parking garage.
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Adobe – Adobe and the environment
Adobe is committed to conserving natural resources and minimizing our impact on the environment. We actively implement measures to increase efficiency, conserve energy and water, improve air quality, and reduce waste.
Excellent paper reduction resources at the end of this piece
tags: adobe, paper, paper reduction
Africa’s biggest wind farm to be built [...]
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Big Green Gathering festival cancelled after ‘political pressure’ from police | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Police today set up road blocks around a music festival site to keep thousands of environmental campaigners away from one of Britain’s longest-running festivals.
Up to 15,000 people had begun to gather for the Big Green Gathering in the Mendip hills, Somerset, which [...]
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I had a lot of content to get through on the Energy and Sustainability show today (but it was all great stuff!) so I had to go at quite a clip. Above is the video from this week’s show and see the chatstream below:
03:26 Tom Raftery: Hey all, kicking off the show in a couple [...]
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I had the good fortune to have a chat with IBM Director of Strategy Drew Clark recently. We had a great talk covering how to get noticed by the IBM Venture Capital group, water and energy projects and trends in sustainability globally.
We even speculated on the likelihood of demand response systems being rolled out for [...]
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DOE Rolls Out $47M for Smart Grid Demos, Unveils First Smart Grid Status Report
Eight smart grid demonstration projects in seven states have just hit pay dirt. The Department of Energy today announced awards of more than $47 million in stimulus funds for the projects, adding to the $17 million that the agency invested in them [...]
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