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It is the end of the year – that time of year when everyone rolls out their X Predictions for 2010 post and, in that regard, GreenMonk is not going to be any different!
Well , maybe slightly different, some of the following predictions are more like hopes and aspirations on my part [...]
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I attended an excellent Logica briefing in the UK recently and had the opportunity to have a quick chat with Tony Rooke, Head of Sustainability & Environment for Logica UK.
In our chat we discussed Logica’s internal Sustainability projects as well as ways in which Logica are addressing the greater Sustainability agenda.
According to Tony, in [...]
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President Obama hosted an interesting experiment yesterday. On his Open For Questions site, he requested people to submit questions to him and vote on submitted questions. Subsequently, in a special online Town Hall, he answered several of the most popular questions – fabulous stuff.
However, despite hurricane Katrina devastating New Orleans, one of the US’s best [...]
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RTE economics correspondent George Lee gave the opening keynote presentation at the 2008 it@cork conference – Green IT: Reduce CO2, Raise profits.
He gave an excellent presentation, showing off first his Segway (a personal electric transport device) and explaining his reasons for bringing it to the event. He then went on to give a superb talk [...]
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I guess the first question should be does your company have a Sustainability Communications Program? If not, why not?
As I mentioned in my last post, it is now time for everyone to
band together not only at national levels, but at company and community levels to [...]
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Graph courtesy of the UK’s Climate Research Unit
The graph above, taken from the UK’s Climate Research Unit, is very sobering. I first noticed the graph when Joseph Romm did an excellent analysis of it on his Climate Progress site.
A few points to note from Joe’s piece:
* the 2000s are on track to be nearly 0.2°C [...]
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At the recent it@cork Green IT conference Gavin Starks of AMEE had an idea which he and Simon Wardley co-pitched to the audience, to change the carbon footprint metric from tonnes of CO2 to people!
The idea, as outlined in the video above was so well received that we decided to create a site to promote [...]
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Long time buddy Dennis Howlett wrote an interesting post earlier today where he talks about the dangers of being an evangelist.
In the post he takes me to task for being idealistic:
Solutions are only any good if they are solving an identifiable problem. Too often I see social media people trying to force [...]
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