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Friday Green Numbers round-up 04/30/2010

Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here is this week’s Green numbers: 5 Questions Facing Carbon Software Players The market for carbon accounting software in the U.S. last year was as small as an average venture capital funding round: about $10 million. But researchers are predicting that the market will boom to some $120 million [...]

By Tom Raftery – April 30, 2010

Cloud Energy Consumption: Google, Twitter and the Systems Vendors

Yesterday Tom posed a question: just how green is cloud computing? We have been frankly disappointed by Cloud computing providers reticence to start publishing numbers on energy consumption. We know for sure that energy is a big deal when it comes to the huge data centers the likes of Facebook are building- these firms are [...]

By monkchips – April 28, 2010

This is a very opportune time to be investing in sustainability management software!

Photo credit James Jordan I wrote about SAP’s launch of their Sustainability Performance Management software recently. This is a space which is of massively growing importance given the increasing regulations around greenhouse gas emissions, for example. I was heartened then to hear in a recent discussion with SAS that their Sustainability Management software was launched [...]

By Tom Raftery – February 14, 2010

RealtimeCarbon.org gives realtime CO2 intensity of electricity generation in the UK

If you actively select for cheaper electricity, you are de facto selecting for greener electricity because cheaper electricity has a higher % of renewable energy in the mix. I wrote previously that it would be great if utility companies were mandated to publish realtime generation mix (% from coal, % for nuclear, % from wind, [...]

By Tom Raftery – July 17, 2009

I wish I were a software developer!

I was peripherally aware of Augmented Reality before attending the Mobile 2.0 conference in Barcelona a few weeks back but hadn’t really thought through its consequences/possibilities until I saw the video above by Dutch startup company Layar. I realised that Layar’s offering was geographically limited but its potential (esp in the Green space) was enormous [...]

By Tom Raftery – July 9, 2009

AMEE lands funding – Green is the new black!

Photo credit nickwheeleroz I just received news that AMEE has landed funding. We have mentioned AMEE already a ton of times on GreenMonk, but that is because they share our open-source philosophy and they are Green. In fact, AMEE CEO Gavin Starks is the one who came up with the MegaTom concept! From the press [...]

By Tom Raftery – December 11, 2008

Save Toms not Tonnes!

At the recent it@cork Green IT conference Gavin Starks of AMEE had an idea which he and Simon Wardley co-pitched to the audience, to change the carbon footprint metric from tonnes of CO2 to people! The idea, as outlined in the video above was so well received that we decided to create a site to [...]

By Tom Raftery – December 2, 2008

GreenMonk interviews AMEE and thinks about collaboration!

Gavin Starks, founder and CEO of AMEE, is one of the speaker’s presenting at this year’s it@cork Green IT conference on November 26th. GreenMonk are a sponsor of the conference, hence our interviewing the speakers in the run-up to the conference. We have written about AMEE several times before on GreenMonk because we are strong [...]

By Tom Raftery – November 7, 2008

Build carbon software efficiently (practice what you preach!)

Photo Credit ralphbijker I have been having some very interesting conversations with people in the carbon software sector these last couple of weeks. The first was with Michael Meehan of Carbonetworks (which I blogged about here) and we discussed their offering which is a “carbon strategy platform”. From my blog post about Carbonetworks: The app [...]

By Tom Raftery – August 7, 2008

Carbon accounting software starting to take off?

Screenshot credit Carbonetworks We in GreenMonk have written previously about carbon accounting software and the huge opportunities which are about to open up in this space. Carbon footprint reporting is increasingly becoming part of the purchasing process with purchasers seeking carbon footprint data from their vendors. It will in time be mandatory and when that [...]

By Tom Raftery – July 21, 2008

Carbon accounting meet lifestreaming II

In my last post I postulated that social software could be used to capture people’s lifestream information and that this could be used by companies to help calculate their carbon footprint. The case I put forward was more suited for the increasing numbers of people working from home. However, I neglected to point out another [...]

By Tom Raftery – June 11, 2008

On HP Labs, Sustainability, Energy Demand Management and Bit Miles

I spent today in Bristol at HP Labs, learning about the company’s relaunch of its R&D organisation. I came away impressed with the crispness of the new vision. In the past HP Labs came across like an academic organisation, removed from commercial concerns. I am happy to report though that the new approach and tone seems much more focused and business like. From a [...]

By monkchips – June 5, 2008

Finnair: Awesomeness by Carbon Calculator (never say never)

Just the other day I say we wouldn’t be covering Carbon Calculators unless they ran on AMEE. Wrong. This afternoon I got a link from Joseph Simpson at MovementDesign and it got me thinking. I have no idea why a thinktank dedicated to the future of movement wouldn’t actually blog the link rather than sending [...]

By monkchips – April 18, 2008

Chasing AMEE, EdenBee and the Carbon Account

As I am sure you all know by now Greenmonk is a fan of Amee, the carbon caculator’s carbon calculator – or “the World’s Energy Meter” as it styles itself. AMEE is a back end service for carbon data, with the data freely available under a CreativeCommons Attribution and Share-Alike license. Credible? Tesco, the world’s [...]

By monkchips – April 15, 2008

Thoughts on Green SOA: a work in progress

Yesterday at IBM’s SOA Impact 2008 show in Las Vegas (my favorite eco-city) I gave my Green SOA stump pitch. Its still a work in progress, and fortunately perhaps the number of delegates was pretty low. SOA for Dummies across the hall on the other hand was packed. What is service oriented architecture, and why [...]

By monkchips – April 9, 2008

Repak launch Carbon Calculator using AMEE

We here at GreenMonk have written about AMEE several times in the past because we really support what they are doing (quick reminder – they enable any climate campaign to use a common standard for Carbon-Footprint Profiling and Measurement, for more, check out their FAQ). Recently I’ve been delighted then to note that Repak have [...]

By Tom Raftery – April 4, 2008

AMEE – The World’s Energy Meter

Sometimes you have to pimp something, just because its great to know you’ve been involved. The slogan above, which I helped with, has now been formally adopted by AMEE, an organisation I have written about before here.  So what is the news? Momentum, and an appearance at next year’s ETech. If all the energy data [...]

By monkchips – December 14, 2007

Hot Friday Green Link Action: Dell, Islington, SOCITM, John Lewis

Dell is now rolling out a new waste disposal services for SMBs, including free curbside pickup. I have a feeling the service is only available in the US for now, which is a shame. But well done Dell. Programmable Web writes up the open source, open data AMEE carbon calculator. I recently covered freecycle… a service to [...]

By monkchips – November 30, 2007

Greening the UK, carbon-busting through iGoogle

Google today gets all my love. They have just built a great interface and set of carbon-busting mashups, leveraging the AMEE back-end. You can calculate footprint, but also post videos through Sky about your own carbon-busting efforts. According to AMEE: Google’s implementation is based on the underlying Act on CO2 data provided by Defra and [...]

By monkchips – November 1, 2007

Introducing AMEE, the avoiding mass extinctions engine

Its a core Greenmonk idea that open data will be crucial to the success of environmental initiatives. We need a scientific, commons-based approach, rather than proprietary data, in order to work effectively on the really big (and really small) problems. A great example of this kind of thinking is AMEE, the somewhat scarily named Avoiding [...]

By monkchips – September 11, 2007

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