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Photo credit Koshyk I wrote (and subsequently updated) a post a few weeks ago reviewing the Sustainability Reports of various companies in the technology space. I updated the review again this afternoon (see the updated review below) with the 2009 reports from IBM, Adobe and SAS. Something which struck me previously, and which hasn’t changed [...]
By Tom Raftery
– July 6, 2010
Photo credit midiman I was extremely lucky to be given a tour of Adobe’s triple platinum LEED certified HQ in Palo Alto last year. I video’d highlights of the tour and posted them here. At the time I was extremely impressed with Adobe’s sustainability initiatives. However, since then I have been more and more wondering [...]
By Tom Raftery
– July 5, 2010
Original photo by ATIS547 I was asked on Twitter recently where to find a list of links to tech companies’ CSR reports. I didn’t know where to find one, so I built one and as well as just the links, I also added in a few extra observations I noted about the reports. As previously [...]
By Tom Raftery
– May 25, 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
Photo credit tipiro Cloud computing may not be as Green as you think. I mentioned previously that I gave a keynote presentation at the Green IT Summit in Dublin last week. In the question and answers session after the talk, Sean Baker asked about cloud computing and whether I thought companies using cloud computing weren’t [...]
By Tom Raftery
– April 27, 2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here is this week’s Green numbers: Like Sept.11, volcano plane ban may hold climate clue | Reuters Plane-free skies over Europe during Iceland’s volcanic eruption may yield rare clues about how flights stoke climate change, adding to evidence from a closure of U.S. airspace after September 11, 2001, experts [...]
By Tom Raftery
– April 23, 2010
I had a great chat about Smart Buildings the other day with IBM’s VP Energy and Environment, Rich Lechner. Why are smart buildings important? Well, as Rich says, in the US buildings are responsible for about 70% of the energy consumption and for about 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted. When you combine that with [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 23, 2010
We had a great Energy and Sustainability show yesterday. In case you missed it, here is the recording and the chatstream is below: Tom Raftery : Ok, kicking off the show this Mon 8th March in 1 minute And we’re live – hope you can all see and hear me Mon, 8 Mar, 16:32 paul [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 9, 2010
greenmonktv on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free We had a great Energy and Sustainability show today – in case you were unable to make it, I recorded the video (above) and the chatstream (below): 16 : 27 MikeTheBee : Hello Tom, It would be handy to have a date in the video to distinguish the ep [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 1, 2010
Watch live streaming video from greenmonktv at livestream.com We had a great Energy and Sustainability show today – in case you were unable to make it, I recorded the video (above) and the chatstream (below): Tom Raftery : Starting today’s show in 5 mins Audio/video ok? http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18520-greenlands-glaciers-disappearing-from-the-bottom-up.html 12 : 03 MikeTheBee : Yep A&V fine. Hi Tom [...]
By Tom Raftery
– February 15, 2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: Iberdrola Renovables Buys Spain’s Largest Wind Park (Update1) – BusinessWeek Iberdrola Renovables SA, the world’s largest operator of wind parks, agreed to buy Spain’s largest wind farm from Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica SA. Renovables, based in Valencia, paid Gamesa 320 million euros ($441 million) [...]
By Tom Raftery
– February 12, 2010
IBM interviewed me at the IBM Connect 09 event last year. I was coming down with the flu at the time so hence the puffy eyes, and lack of coherency but the good folks at IBM seemed happy with the video and have posted it so here it is for your delectation!
By Tom Raftery
– February 10, 2010
Photo credit jurvetson One of the topics which I responded to on the recent IBM Eco Jam was “IT’s Central Role In Managing Energy & Carbon”. This topic was raised by another analyst (again IBM has asked me not to mention participants by name but if the analyst in question sees this and wants me [...]
By Tom Raftery
– February 9, 2010
Photo credit Tom Raftery I participated in last week’s IBM Global Eco Jam. As you can see from above, the event generated 2080 posts from a total of 3987 logins. I mentioned previously that the quality of the participants in the jam was really impressive, but what were attendees most interested in talking about during [...]
By Tom Raftery
– February 3, 2010
Photo credit Tom Raftery I published this post on the IBM Global Eco Jam last week and it generated some interesting feedback so I thought I’d re-publish it here too to solicit your thoughts – I was at the NewNet CleanTech Investors Summit in London last November. At this event a poll was taken asking [...]
By Tom Raftery
– February 3, 2010
I participated in the recent IBM Global Eco Jam and there were some fantastic discussions there. One of the discussions surprised me though – people were still talking about unplugging mobile phone chargers as if that was a significant problem. It is not. On the contrary, it is a dangerous distraction. Watch the video above. [...]
By Tom Raftery
– February 2, 2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: U.S. pledges 17 percent emissions reduction by 2020 – washingtonpost.com The United States pledged Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels under an international climate agreement, though it made its commitment contingent on passing legislation [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 29, 2010
Today is the final day of IBM’s Global Eco-efficiency Jam (it finishes at 6pm CET today) and it has been awesome. There have been hundreds of discussions on all manner of Eco-related topics – everything from LEED certification, to Green software engineering, to Energy Efficiency certificates to Smart cities and collaboration. People have been asking [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 29, 2010
Will Apple move into home energy management, and if they do, can they make it sexy and front-of-mind for everyone? I made this point in a reply to a post earlier on the IBM Global Eco Jam and I thought it could well do with being fleshed out to a full post here to see [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 28, 2010
Well, the IBM Global Eco Jam has been underway nearly 24 hours at this point – how is it going? It has been incredibly active, I have to say. You can see from the screenshot I took earlier this morning that the number of posts was 987 at that point – I just checked now [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 28, 2010
Photo credit justmakeit The IBM Global Eco Efficiency Jam kicks off this afternoon (January 27th) at 9am EST (14:00 GMT, 15:00 here in CEST) and continues right on through until Friday afternoon. According to the IBM site the Jam is a web-based event which will provide an unrivalled opportunity for thousands of public and private [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 27, 2010
I had a chat recently with IBM’s Vice President, Product and Strategy for the Enterprise Content Management, Ken Bisconti. We had a great discussion around enterprise paper reduction strategies and IBM’s recently announced Smart Archive initiative. Here is a transcription of our conversation: Tom Raftery: Hi everyone, and welcome to GreenMonk TV. My guest in [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 19, 2010
Photo credit MildlyDiverting Welcome to this Friday’s Green numbers round-up! IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years: · Cities [...]
By Tom Raftery
– December 18, 2009
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