Comments on: More Pushback: Green Vegas http://greenmonk.net/more-pushback-green-vegas/ Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:23:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Marc Hamilton http://greenmonk.net/more-pushback-green-vegas/#comment-3010 Marc Hamilton Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:36:10 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=147#comment-3010 Top Five Reasons Rio is a better city for a Green IT unconference than Vegas: 1) Jogging along Ipanema Beach is a much better way to burn off calories from that conference lunch than running across Las Vegas Blvd. to get to that next casino 2) Most cars in Rio run on locally produced, clean burning ethanol fuel, which means you can jog along Ipanema Beach without being suffocated by car exhaust 3) Rio has an OpenSolaris user group, Vegas doesn't 4) The Green Map, http://www.designfor21st.org/proceedings/proceedings/project_rebello.html 5) While you can find good fresh seafood in Vegas, it was most likely flown in, fresh seafood in Rio most likely was caught that morning along the coast Top Five Reasons Rio is a better city for a Green IT unconference than Vegas:
1) Jogging along Ipanema Beach is a much better way to burn off calories from that conference lunch than running across Las Vegas Blvd. to get to that next casino
2) Most cars in Rio run on locally produced, clean burning ethanol fuel, which means you can jog along Ipanema Beach without being suffocated by car exhaust
3) Rio has an OpenSolaris user group, Vegas doesn’t
4) The Green Map, http://www.designfor21st.org/proceedings/proceedings/project_rebello.html
5) While you can find good fresh seafood in Vegas, it was most likely flown in, fresh seafood in Rio most likely was caught that morning along the coast

]]> By: Lower (Carbon) Footprint » EnergyCamp - first unconference on Green IT http://greenmonk.net/more-pushback-green-vegas/#comment-2983 Lower (Carbon) Footprint » EnergyCamp - first unconference on Green IT Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:42:27 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=147#comment-2983 [...] you laugh too much at the thought of a Green Energy conference in Vegas maybe you should read James’ post on [...] [...] you laugh too much at the thought of a Green Energy conference in Vegas maybe you should read James’ post on [...]

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