Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
Fujitsu Siemens announced last week new Eco Labels they are launching for their goods.
Eco labels are something I have written about previously on GreenMonk and I believe they are vital to helping consumers make informed choices when buying electronics.
I was interested in learning more so I invited their head of Green IT, Dr. Bernd Kosch to come on the show to discuss. He graciously accepted.
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced recently that it was shipping 10,000 monitors and bare bones system chassis from China to Germany by train!
I thought this was simply a pr stunt to get some headlines until I read that transporting the goods by train is one-third faster than ocean freight, costs only one-quarter as much as air freight and yet produces less than 5% of the CO2 emissions of air freight!
Intrigued I invited Fujitsu Siemens senior director of global logistics, Hans Erbe to come on GreenMonk TV to discuss the shipment and to give us some hard numbers around money and CO2 saved!
You can foillow the progress of the shipment on the train’s blog at http://www.transeurasiablog.com/
I should also apologise for the quality of the audio in the podcast. We were connected via Skype and despite connecting several times, this was the best audio we could get 
The television image in the video is from videocrab
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