Energy & Sustainability show for March 8th

March 9, 2010 GreenMonkTV

We had a great Energy and Sustainability show yesterday. In case you missed it, here is the recording and the chatstream is below:
Tom Raftery :
Ok, kicking off the show this Mon 8th March in 1 minute
And we’re live – hope you can all see and hear me
Mon, 8 Mar, 16:32
paul savage :
good afternoon Tom[sound is [...]

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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/05/2010

March 5, 2010 GreenNumbers

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Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:

HP Named No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List
HP today was ranked No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s (formerly known as CRO Magazine) 11th annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List.
Climbing from fifth place in last year’s rankings, HP gained the [...]

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Smart Grid Heavy Hitters series – Landis+Gyr President and COO Andreas Umbach

March 4, 2010 GreenMonkTV

This is the fourth of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, and in it I talked to the President and COO of Landis+Gyr, Andreas Umbach. Landis+Gyr have been in the meter business for decades now so I was very interested to hear what Andreas had to say.
It was a great chat, we talked about:

Andreas’ and [...]

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Energy and Sustainability show for March 1st

March 1, 2010 GreenMonkTV

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We had a great Energy and Sustainability show today – in case you were unable to make it, I recorded the video (above) and the chatstream (below):

16 : 27 MikeTheBee :
Hello Tom, It would be handy to have a date in the video to distinguish the ep being replayed. [...]

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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/26/2010

February 26, 2010 GreenNumbers

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Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:

Mitsubishi to build £100m UK wind turbine factory | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Government aim of making Britain a centre of green manufacturing win a major boost from plans that will create hundreds of jobs
tags: greennumbers, uk, wind, mitsubishi, wind turbine

Hydrogen taxi cabs to serve London [...]

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Smart Grid Heavy Hitter series – Silver Springs Networks’ Raj Vaswani

February 25, 2010 GreenMonkTV

This is the third of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, and in it I talked to the CTO of Silver Springs Networks, Raj Vaswani.
It was a great interview – in it we talked about:

Raj’s definition and the benefits of a Smart Grid
The fact that, to-date Smart Grids are quite notional
How long it will be [...]

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Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from coal?

February 23, 2010 risk

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Should FaceBook’s investors be worries that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from primarily coal-fired power?
FaceBook is fourth largest web property (by unique visitor count) and well on its way to becoming third. It is valued in excess of $10 billion and its investors include Russian [...]

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GreenMonk Energy and Sustainability post for 22nd Feb

February 22, 2010 GreenMonkTV

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We had a great Energy and Sustainability show today – in case you were unable to make it, I recorded the video (above) and the chatstream (below):

Tom Raftery :
Kicking off the show in a sec
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100219123517.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/18/worlds-top-firms-environmental-damage
http://greenmonk.net/do-risk-and-compliance-have-a-part-to-play-in-reducing-pollution/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/17/amazon-hydrocarbon-boom
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61L2ZT20100222
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/22/jonathan-safran-foer-cows-beef
http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html?awesm=on.ted.com_886s
http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/02/seriously-where-does-our-food-come-from/
http://www.dukeorganic.co.uk/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7236011/UN-global-warming-data-skewed-by-heat-from-planes-and-buildings.html
http://www.smallbusinesseurope.org/en/news1610.html
http://www.smartmeters.com/the-news/823-meters-and-more-looks-to-create-global-standards.html
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-02-19-all-electric-plug-in-project-seeks-to-make-the-family-car-a-cash/
http://www.greenenergyscheme.org/index.php?page=suppliers/tariffs
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100219/NEWS02/2190351/1006/NEWS
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/02/17/nike-starbucks-lead-push-in-oregon-for-clean-energy-economy/
http://www.fastcompany.com/1552709/a-facebook-petition-to-stop-facebook-from-powering-its-data-center-with-coal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100222/sc_afp/uncitesspeciestunajapan
http://www.marcgunther.com/2010/02/21/nukes-why-small-is-beautiful/
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61L1WB20100222
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/02/18/j-p-morgan-develops-guide-for-a-paperless-treasury-operation/
http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/02/government-aid-to-flow-into-great-lakes-helping-fight-asian-carp/
http://www.avaaz.org/en/robin_hood/
 17 : 10
cgarvey :
Cheers Tom .. I’m still stuck back at the smart meters link .. loads of [...]

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Do risk and compliance have a part to play in reducing pollution?

February 19, 2010 pollution

Do risk and compliance have a part to play in reducing pollution? EQ2 certainly thinks so.
Steve Burt, the founder and CEO of EQ2, is a former economist having worked at senior levels with Dun & Bradstreet and British Petroleum. His approach, which he calls Granular Resource Economics (GRE), enables companies to quickly see at a [...]

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