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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/12/2010

by Tom Raftery on March 12, 2010 · 1 comment

in GreenNumbers

Photo credit Unhindered by Talent
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:

11 Siberian tigers starve to death at Chinese zoo
Eleven Siberian tigers died of starvation in north-eastern China’s Liaoning province after a cash-strapped zoo fed them only chicken bones, state media said Friday. The 11 tigers died over the past three months at the privately [...]

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The importance of open standards for broad smart grid adoption

by Tom Raftery on October 1, 2009 · 5 comments

in smart grid

Photo credit Leo Reynolds
If you are not sure why open standards are important, you need to read this quote from the opening address of the The Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference 2005, by then Minister of Science and Technology, Mosibudi Mangena:
The tsunami that devastated South Eastern Asian countries and the north-eastern parts [...]

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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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Cisco EnergyWise – turns networks into an Energy Efficiency platforms

by Tom Raftery on January 28, 2009 · 7 comments

in energy efficiency

As mentioned previously, buildings account for 38% of CO2 emissions in the United States, buildings consume 70% of the electricity load in the U.S and CO2 emissions from buildings are projected to grow faster than any other sector over the next 25 years.
Cisco has decided to tackle this problem, by turning its networking infrastructure kit [...]

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Corporate Social Responsibility – tech companies reviewed!

by Tom Raftery on January 27, 2009 · 4 comments

in Uncategorized, sustainability

Original photo by ATIS547
According to its Wikipedia definition, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
is a concept whereby organizations consider the interests of society by taking responsibility for the impact of their activities on customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, communities and other stakeholders, as well as the environment. This obligation is seen to extend beyond the statutory obligation [...]

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Cisco’s John Chambers talks Green

by Tom Raftery on January 14, 2009 · 0 comments

in social software

This is a video of Cisco CEO, John Chambers giving a superb presentation at MIT last year.
In the talk, John talks up the rise of video as a tool for collaboration in the enterprise, mentions some of Cisco’s work in China after the earthquake there, and talks up Smart Grids (“Smart Grids are $billion opportunities”). [...]

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Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator now online

by Tom Raftery on July 15, 2008 · 1 comment

in energy efficiency

Nortel announced the release their Energy Efficiency Calculator online last week.
The tool is available for anyone to use after a quick registration (name, email and country) and uses best guestimates to give figures for energy spend.
The data are highly customisable, you can vary country, energy costs, company setup (network, no. of employees, etc.). It outputs [...]

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