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carbon accounting

Carbonetworks and the open carbon platform

by Tom Raftery on August 1, 2008 · 1 comment

in carbon accounting

Screenshot credit Carbonetworks
I wrote a quick blog post about Carbonetworks the other day when it was announced they secured $5 million in series A financing.
I made the mistake though of assuming their software was a simple carbon accounting solution. It goes well beyond that.
Yesterday, in a phone call with Carbonetworks co-founder, President and CEO [...]

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Supply chain management and carbon accounting

by Tom Raftery on July 25, 2008 · 1 comment

in carbon accounting

Photo Credit phitar
I came across two fascinating surveys of supply chain execs attitudes to climate change today!
The first from environmentalleader.com says that:
The survey of over 500 North American supply chain executives shows that the vast majority of respondents, 90 percent, think that over the next three years green issues will remain or become more important [...]

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Carbon accounting software starting to take off?

by Tom Raftery on July 21, 2008 · 4 comments

in carbon accounting

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 happens, [...]

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Carbon accounting meet lifestreaming II

by Tom Raftery on June 11, 2008 · 3 comments

in carbon accounting, social software

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 painfully [...]

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Carbon account, meet lifestreaming. Lifestreaming, meet carbon accounting!

by Tom Raftery on June 9, 2008 · 17 comments

in Uncategorized, carbon accounting, social software

I come from a Social Media background. I use blogs, Social Networks, Microblogs, Photo Sharing sites, Video Sharing sites, Livecasting apps, Social bookmarking sites etc. everyday. I generate a constant stream of updates about things happening in my life which can be followed via RSS or on my Friendfeed page (a feed aggregator) or on [...]

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