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A perfect storm consisting of the EPA, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and investors is pressuring companies to come clean on their environmental risks and performance.
I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago about FaceBook’s decision to use a primarily coal-burning utility to power its new data center where I [...]
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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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Screenshot credit Tom Raftery – data from NASA
The world is getting warmer. 2008 was the 9th warmest year on record. 2009, barring a sudden, severe, global cold snap, will end up being the 4th or 5th warmest year on record and with El Niño coming on in the Pacific, 2010 looks likely to set [...]
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(Lack of) Sustainability in the mobile phone industry
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I realised recently that although I have referred to the talk I gave in Barcelona on Mobile Sustainability (for the Mobile 2.0 conference) in a couple of posts I never talked about the talk directly here, so now it is time to redress [...]
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Mon, 2 Nov, 16:30 Tom Raftery : Kicking off now
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:30 MikeTheBee : Sound and Vid ok
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:30 Daithi : Grand
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:32 MikeTheBee : Ah I missed the tab, looked for link in the side menu
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:32 Tom Raftery : http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/01/climate-change-world-leaders-accused?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:34 MikeTheBee [...]
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I don’t get it. Really, I don’t.
Climate change is destroying the planet. Oceans are becoming warmer and more acidic, the glaciers and polar ice caps are shrinking faster then even the most pessimistic projections, South Sea islands like the Maldives are becoming inundated by sea level rise and we are in the [...]
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Rich Lechner is IBM’s VP Energy and Environment and comes on GreenMonk TV every month.
This month we discussed a report IBM sponsored and which was written by Acclimatise called Global Electric Utilities – the adaptation challenge
Some points to note from the report:
87% of businesses in the FTSE 350 acknowledge that their business is at risk [...]
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This is the video from today’s GreenMonk Energy and Sustainability show – see below for the chatstream:
03:30 Tom Raftery: Do we have audio/video?
03:31 MikeTheBee: I weren’t
03:31 MikeTheBee: Video and Audio
03:31 iangb: i can see and hear
03:31 MikeTheBee: Yep
03:32 MikeTheBee: Bank Hol Last week in UK
03:33 Tom Raftery: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/sep/03/arctic-temperatures-climate-change
03:33 MikeTheBee: The more the merrier
03:35 Tom Raftery: [...]
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When it comes to climate change London’s dropping 10 by 10 | TckTckTck
A new campaign called 10:10 UK was launched today with the aim of signing up people, companies and organizations who will commit to reducing their carbon footprint 10% by 2010. The founder of this ambitious project is Franny Armstrong who also happens to [...]
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