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environment

To protect and serve who again?

by Tom Raftery on October 22, 2009 · 32 comments

in environment

Photo credit clearbrian
I don’t get it. Really, I don’t.
Climate change is destroying the planet. Oceans are becoming warmer and more acidic, the glaciers and polar ice caps are shrinking faster then even the most pessimistic projections, South Sea islands like the Maldives are becoming inundated by sea level rise and we are in the [...]

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Living In De-material World: On Microsoft and Bit Miles

by monkchips on September 26, 2008 · 1 comment

in energy efficiency, environment, footprint

I have written a fair bit here about Bit Miles (the moral imperative to digitise) and business process dematerialisation, so I was particularly interested in a recent trip to Microsoft’s gaming and world simulation division.
What was so relevant?
One area that I believe holds out great promise for this kind of simulation technology is in sustainable [...]

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Microsoft and EEA deal starting to pay off

by Tom Raftery on July 30, 2008 · 3 comments

in environment

James has written previously about how Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) signed a non-exclusive five year deal with a goal to “make environmental information more accessible to citizens in Europe”.
As James said at the time:
Likesay, this is pretty much a canonical Greenmonk story. We are all watchdogs, we are all observers. Science [...]

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