Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
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“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes
As is often the case, someone asks for a written answer to a question, but then fails to use the material. The great thing about blogs is that they make it very easy to make sure such content isn’t [...]
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Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:
U.S. pledges 17 percent emissions reduction by 2020 – washingtonpost.com
The United States pledged Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels under an international climate agreement, though it made its commitment contingent on passing legislation at home. [...]
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Yesterday I got an update from an ERP company called Epicor that primarily serves the mid-market. While I am not an ERP specialist its always interesting, as a middleware guy, to get a view from the app side. Greenmonk for obvious reasons also takes a keener view than the RedMonk mothership in applications in areas [...]
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EU environment commissioner urges to cut emissions by 30 percent – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
“Europe should set a good example by agreeing to cut emissions by 30 percent from 1990 levels before the start of the climate change conference in Copenhagen, urges Stavros Dimas, the Environment Commissioner [...]
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(Lack of) Sustainability in the mobile phone industry
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I realised recently that although I have referred to the talk I gave in Barcelona on Mobile Sustainability (for the Mobile 2.0 conference) in a couple of posts I never talked about the talk directly here, so now it is time to redress [...]
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Disney Buys $7M in Reforestation Offsets, a Corporate Record
Walt Disney Corp., by donating about $7 million to various conservation programs, aims to offset a portion of its emissions. Some are calling the move by Disney the biggest single corporate investment in forest carbon offsets to date.
The move is part of Disney’s effort to use “high [...]
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U.S. companies may look abroad to fight global warming — latimes.com
“U.S. companies could save tens of billions of dollars by investing in efforts to combat deforestation in developing nations instead of cleaning up their own domestic carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report released Wednesday.”
tags: co2 emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, greennumbers
Carbon emissions will fall [...]
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A couple of major contract wins caught me eye, or ear this week – one by CA and one by Logica. Job one in moving to a lower carbon economy is working out what our current exposure is. Before we can model business processes in order to rethink their carbondynamics we need to do some [...]
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What If Climate Action Actually Accelerates Economic Growth?
Economics is not my strong suit, but I’m trying to wrap my brains around the economic discussion of climate action, and where it’s gone wrong, since it increasingly seems to me that there’s a strong argument to be made that climate action will accelerate the economy, not drag [...]
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