Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
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When deciding on the price of a new product, one of the main criteria for setting the price is the cost of production. After all, charge less than the cost of production, and that will soon put an end to the company’s profits and possibly even the company itself!
So, if legislators are [...]
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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 promote [...]
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James has, in previous posts referred to the fact that IT is responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions but that it can have a disproportionate influence on the other 98%. This is something we believe fundamentally in GreenMonk so it is great to see others vindicating our position.
The Climate Group and [...]
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I was just reading Industries Allied to Cap Carbon Differ on the Details from the NYTimes when something struck me. The US did the right thing in not signing up to Kyoto, but for the wrong reasons. You know why it should have refused? Because. Kyoto. Didn’t. Go. Far. Enough.
We should all be paying a [...]
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I see the LA Times is reporting that the San Francisco Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s board of directors voted overwhelmingly (15-1) in favour of levying a carbon tax on businesses.
The tax will be 4.4 cents per tonne of CO2 emitted which, in reality is paltry:
More than 2,500 businesses will be required to pay [...]
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As you probably know by now, we’re very interested in the idea of what might constitute a green API or protocol, so I was very interested when I received a link via twitter from @Straxus (Ryan Slobojan).
The Aon Scéal? (That’s Any News in Gaelic) blog by Alastrain McKinstry points to this piece by Yves Poppe [...]
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So it appears you can go green in Vegas, beyond all my cynicism and that of others. I just came across some really interesting news from McAfee about its approach to greener conferences in that benighted location.
“Greening Kickoff,” an innovative project to minimize, rigorously measure and offset the environmental impact of a large corporate event [...]
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I spotted on the Wal-Mart site today that they are giving away 1m reusable shopping bags on April 19th (2008).
Why is that important? Well traditional shopping bags take up to 1,000 years to break down in the environment. Wal-Mart’s shopping bags are made from recycled materials and normally sell instore for $1. It [...]
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