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IBM recently launched a game called CityOne. I saw this game demo’d when I was at the Smarter Industries Symposium in Barcelona and I promised myself I’d go back and look at it in more detail. This morning I sat down with CityOne and took it for a spin. CityOne is a simulation game where [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 25, 2011
After I mentioned in this post that JouleX had recently updated their Energy Manager product to version 2.5 and all the extra functionality that brought, I was curious to find out a little more about them. I talked to Tim McCormick, JouleX’ VP Marketing and Sales and Mark Davidson, their Sustainability Officer. I was intrigued [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 19, 2011
And here are this week’s Green numbers… 2010 ties 2005 for warmest year on record Last year tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record for global surface temperature, US government scientists said in a report on Wednesday that offered the latest data on climate change. The Earth in 2010 experienced temperatures higher than [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 14, 2011
We had big plans for HomeCamp in 2010, but facts seem to have got in the way. What with Chris joining CurrentCost, and my wife and I having a second child- we didn’t have as much time to apply to the event as it deserved, or the community for that matter. Which is why I [...]
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– December 7, 2010
And here are this week’s Green numbers – shorter than usual presumably ‘cos last week was Thanksgiving in the US: Chinese CDM Fund to Have $1.5 Billion for Clean-Energy Projects by 2012 China CDM Fund, the government body that invests money from carbon credits, will almost double its available cash for renewable energy projects to [...]
By Tom Raftery
– December 3, 2010
Photo credit Argonne National Laboratory Supercomputers are particularly fast computers (often made up of thousands of “off the shelf” computers) typically used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as climate research, molecular modelling, research into nuclear fusion, etc. The Green 500 is a ranking of the most energy efficient supercomputers measured in Floating Point Operations per [...]
By Tom Raftery
– November 29, 2010
A few bits of Green News crossed my Inbox in the last couple of days so I thought I’d compile them into a short post – The Vodafone Americas Foundation and mHealth Alliance announced the last call for entries for the annual competition to identify and support promising wireless-related technologies to address critical social issues [...]
By Tom Raftery
– November 18, 2010
Photo credit Tom Raftery I attended the inaugural IBM Smarter industries Symposium recently and the major talking point that emerged from it was Innovation. The event was a nice mix of presentations by IBMers, customers and “breakout exchanges” with a healthy mix of both. Almost all of the speakers talked about the increasing complexity of [...]
By Tom Raftery
– November 15, 2010
Photo credit pgegreenenergy IBM seems to be making big moves in AsiaPac! IBM made two significant announcements last week about projects it is involved in in South Korea and Shanghai. In the South Korean project, IBM is partnering with POSCO ICT “to develop South Korea’s first renewable energy management system for a smart grid.” When [...]
By Tom Raftery
– November 8, 2010
I attended an IBM Analysts recently in London where IBM briefed us on a number of announcements in the Smart buildings space. Why do we need smart buildings in the first place? What problem are they solving? Well, according to IBM, worldwide, buildings consume 42% of all electricity generated and by 2025 they will be [...]
By Tom Raftery
– October 18, 2010
Photo credit tiffa130 And here are this week’s Green Numbers: Timberland Commits Five Million Trees in Five Years to Help Solve Critical Issues in High-Risk Environments “The Timberland Company (NYSE: TBL) believes it can help alleviate hunger, create jobs, protect wildlife and preserve the environment…all through the simple act of planting a tree. Make that [...]
By Tom Raftery
– October 8, 2010
I have already written about how well the IBM Start event started out – well I wanted to dive a little deeper into one of the days in particular – the Smarter Energy for a Sustainable future day. Why? For me, it was by far the best day of the event. Why do I say [...]
By Tom Raftery
– September 29, 2010
I attended the first three days of IBM’s Start summit last week and I’m definitely going back this week for more. The venue (Lancaster House) is a sumptuous mansion in the centre of London whose opulence, defies description! The event kicked off with a day dedicated to discussing Smarter Cities. The speaker list included Martin [...]
By Tom Raftery
– September 13, 2010
Photo credit Tom Raftery (me!) IBM are hosting a 9 day Sustainability Summit at Start in the UK this week (and next obviously!). Start is an initiative inspired by the Prince of Wales Charities Foundation to help people “lead more sustainable lives and to show what a more energy efficient, cleaner and healthier future could [...]
By Tom Raftery
– September 6, 2010
Photo credit Koshyk I wrote (and subsequently updated) a post a few weeks ago reviewing the Sustainability Reports of various companies in the technology space. I updated the review again this afternoon (see the updated review below) with the 2009 reports from IBM, Adobe and SAS. Something which struck me previously, and which hasn’t changed [...]
By Tom Raftery
– July 6, 2010
Photo credit midiman I was extremely lucky to be given a tour of Adobe’s triple platinum LEED certified HQ in Palo Alto last year. I video’d highlights of the tour and posted them here. At the time I was extremely impressed with Adobe’s sustainability initiatives. However, since then I have been more and more wondering [...]
By Tom Raftery
– July 5, 2010
Original photo by ATIS547 I was asked on Twitter recently where to find a list of links to tech companies’ CSR reports. I didn’t know where to find one, so I built one and as well as just the links, I also added in a few extra observations I noted about the reports. As previously [...]
By Tom Raftery
– May 25, 2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here is this week’s Green numbers: 5 Questions Facing Carbon Software Players The market for carbon accounting software in the U.S. last year was as small as an average venture capital funding round: about $10 million. But researchers are predicting that the market will boom to some $120 million [...]
By Tom Raftery
– April 30, 2010
Yesterday Tom posed a question: just how green is cloud computing? We have been frankly disappointed by Cloud computing providers reticence to start publishing numbers on energy consumption. We know for sure that energy is a big deal when it comes to the huge data centers the likes of Facebook are building- these firms are [...]
By monkchips
– April 28, 2010
Photo credit tipiro Cloud computing may not be as Green as you think. I mentioned previously that I gave a keynote presentation at the Green IT Summit in Dublin last week. In the question and answers session after the talk, Sean Baker asked about cloud computing and whether I thought companies using cloud computing weren’t [...]
By Tom Raftery
– April 27, 2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here is this week’s Green numbers: Like Sept.11, volcano plane ban may hold climate clue | Reuters Plane-free skies over Europe during Iceland’s volcanic eruption may yield rare clues about how flights stoke climate change, adding to evidence from a closure of U.S. airspace after September 11, 2001, experts [...]
By Tom Raftery
– April 23, 2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: GE Announces Major European Offshore Wind Expansion with a Planned €340 Million Investment for Manufacturing, Engineering and Service Facilities in Four Countries GE today announced plans to invest approximately €340 million to develop or expand its wind turbine manufacturing, engineering and service facilities [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 26, 2010
I had a great chat about Smart Buildings the other day with IBM’s VP Energy and Environment, Rich Lechner. Why are smart buildings important? Well, as Rich says, in the US buildings are responsible for about 70% of the energy consumption and for about 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted. When you combine that with [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 23, 2010
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 [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 9, 2010
greenmonktv on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free 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 [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 1, 2010
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