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June 29th GreenMonk Energy and Sustainability show

by Tom Raftery on June 30, 2009 · 0 comments

in GreenMonkTV, energy, sustainability, video

Here is the chatstream from yesterday’s Energy & Sustainability show (above) – there were a couple of technical hitches which I have now sorted out and which shouldn’t present problems next week:
03:31 Tom Raftery: Do we have audio & video
03:32 cgarvey: yup, both working
03:34 SukiFuller: I’m gonna be listening but not able to [...]

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Microsoft expands its Connector bus service

by Tom Raftery on October 3, 2008 · 0 comments

in transportation

Photo Credit samk
Microsoft operate a private bus service called the Connector service for employees to get to work at its headquarters in Redmond. Microsoft has 39,000 employees working at its Redmond campus so providing this facility for them is not only Green, it also reduces on congestion and the requirement for parking spaces.
Microsoft announced the [...]

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The high price of oil is not the problem – it is the solution to the actual problem of anthropogenic climate change

by Tom Raftery on June 17, 2008 · 6 comments

in biofuels

Photo Credit Future-PhD
Chris Morrisson has a post on the VentureBeat blog extolling a heavily self-funded startup called Algenol Biofuels which is using algae to produce ethanol for use as a fuel.
The company is about to build a refinery in Mexico to produce:
a jaw-dropping billion gallons a year of ethanol by the end of 2012
In the [...]

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