Comments on: “Bit Miles” - Digitisation vs the Carbon Added Tax

By: Ugo Di Profio

Ugo Di Profio — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:04:38 +0000

I’m reading this (via Twitter) in the train, on my long commute to work.
With me, thousands of others roundtripping every day.
Once in office, I’ll be moving electrons and bits; bits that I could as well move from home with photons.
If we say that people are a different thing than food and goods, then we should also be speaking about “people miles”.
Good read.
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By: Living In De-material World: On Microsoft and Bit Miles

Living In De-material World: On Microsoft and Bit Miles — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:01:58 +0000

[...] have written a fair bit here about Bit Miles (the moral imperative to digitise) and business process dematerialisation, so I was particularly [...]

By: James Governor’s Monkchips » Four Perspectives on IBM on a Friday

James Governor’s Monkchips » Four Perspectives on IBM on a Friday — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:47:43 +0000

[...] to Green supply chains the pitch makes sense. I wonder what the IBM consultants will make of my Bit Miles [...]

By: James Governor’s Monkchips » Living In De-material World: On Microsoft, Train SIM and the Virtual Everything

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:08:40 +0000

[...] in the real world is expensive. Moving Atoms has a cost. I have recently started talking about Bit Miles as a Greenmonk narrative, defined as is the carbon cost associated with moving a good or creating a [...]

By: James Governor’s Monkchips » Our newest customer: a little TX outfit called Dell

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:16:15 +0000

[...] world with low cost oil as the enabler. So what comes next? Hardware as a service, anyone? Reduced Bit Miles via [...]

By: Are Games Consoles Really Gas Guzzlers? at Greenmonk: the blog

Are Games Consoles Really Gas Guzzlers? at Greenmonk: the blog — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:21:45 +0000

[...] unsound, but you need a better story to tell. If I were you I would be talking about Bit Miles - how you’re encouraging the move to digital everything. Electrons are cheaper to ship [...]

By: Greenmonk Associates : IPv6: Towards a Greener Internet

Greenmonk Associates : IPv6: Towards a Greener Internet — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:38:41 +0000

[...] the rather excellent Green IT/Broadband blog. The author Bill St. Arnaud clearly believes in our Bit Miles concept, even if he doesn’t call it that. Governments around the world are wrestling with the [...]

By: Greenmonk Associates : Carbon Accounting Software: The next huge thing

Greenmonk Associates : Carbon Accounting Software: The next huge thing — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:49:52 +0000

[...] I am not the only one that thinks green tape is going to be a major issue. One way to calculate Bit Miles is with carbon accounting software, and you can be sure we’re going to see Carbon Added tax. [...]

By: Does IT need 'bit miles'? - The Environment Site Forums

Does IT need 'bit miles'? - The Environment Site Forums — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:52:06 +0000

[...] to IT, in order to get people to think about the environmental costs to their technology. Greenmonk Associates : “Bit Miles” - Digitisation vs the Carbon Added Tax [...]

By: Tech must introduce bit miles | Greenbang

Tech must introduce bit miles | Greenbang — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:22:01 +0000

[...] to get people to think about the environmental costs to their technology. Says Greenmonk, on its eponymous blog: Bit miles thinking isn’t confined to IT. Any industry that involves needless transport of [...]