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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 to [...]
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World’s largest reinsurance company: Something must be done
“Globally, the average number of major weather-related catastrophes such as windstorms, floods or droughts is now three times as high as at the beginning of the 1980s. Losses have risen even more, with average increases of 11 percent per year since 1980, the reinsurance [...]
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Energy agency warns of ‘irreparable’ damage – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist
“Take all the power stations in the United States. Together, they produce almost 1000 gigawatts of electricity – enough to boil several billion kettles simultaneously.
Now imagine building another five power stations for every one that already exists in the United States. That is [...]
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Rich Lechner is IBM’s VP of Energy and Environment.
He is a regular interviewee here where we discuss various matters related to energy and environment. This interview was recorded while I was at the SAP TechEd 2009 event in Vienna in a crowded interview room so I apologise in advance for the poorer than normal audio [...]
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Al Jazeera English – Business – BP hit with record safety fine
“British Petroleum, one of the world’s largest energy companies, has been hit with a record fine of $87m for safety violations at a Texas refinery.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) handed down the fine on Friday, saying the company had failed to correct [...]
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US coal stands in way of Copenhagen | Jeffrey Sachs | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“It’s not India and China that threaten the success of a new climate change treaty, but senators of coal-producing US states”
tags: us, coal, climate change bill, us senate, coal states, greenmonktv
Spanish wetland facing destruction as farming starves it of water [...]
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Creative Review’s incredible dissolving bag
“Newsstand copies of the November issue of CR come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water.”
tags: harmless dissolve, biodegradable, packaging, greenmonktv
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Arctic to be ‘ice-free in summer’
“The Arctic Ocean could be largely ice-free and open to shipping during the summer in [...]
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Coauthor of SuperFreakonomics apologizes to me « Climate Progress
More evidence, as if more were needed that Levitt & Dubner’s new book SuperFreakonomics is error-filled twaddle.
Shame really, I thought Freakonomics was a good book. Now I wonder just how accurate that was too!
tags: levitt, dubner, freakonomics, superfreakonomics, greenmonktv
Australia Motorists Ready For Electric Cars, TMR Poll Shows [...]
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Eco Architecture: A-Cero Designs Sustainable Research Center For Spain – Ecofriend
“Madrid-based architecture firm A-Cero has won a competition to design a research center for renewable energy sources in Murcia, Spain with a plan that harnesses renewable energy to the maximum. The building designed by A-Cero will blur the gap between architecture and free space and [...]
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