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Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:
HP Named No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List
HP today was ranked No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s (formerly known as CRO Magazine) 11th annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List.
Climbing from fifth place in last year’s rankings, HP gained the [...]
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Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:
Iberdrola Renovables Buys Spain’s Largest Wind Park (Update1) – BusinessWeek
Iberdrola Renovables SA, the world’s largest operator of wind parks, agreed to buy Spain’s largest wind farm from Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica SA.
Renovables, based in Valencia, paid Gamesa 320 million euros ($441 million) for 244 megawatts [...]
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I ReTweeted a couple of posts yesterday from HP’s Ed Gemmell. The posts from Ed were some data about HP’s use of renewable energy in various EU countries. The retweets were:
RT @EdGemmell: HP Ireland running on 50% wind power saving 27,000 tonnes CO2
RT @EdGemmell: HP in Italy has been running on [...]
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Here is a recording of today’s GreenMonk Energy and Sustainability show complete with the chatstream below:
04:31 TomRaftery : About to kick off
04:32 TomRaftery : Can you see & hear me ok?
04:33 TomRaftery : Hello?
04:33 ustreamer-36203 : Hi Tom
04:33 ustreamer-36203 : Andrew Newton of APEsphere here
04:34 ustreamer-36203 : yep, all good
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I received an email over the holidays from someone who was building a data center and who wanted some advice on how to make it Greener. I replied with a few suggestions from my experience building the hyper energy-efficient data center at CIX and then thought why not flesh out my response [...]
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[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/redmonk/ChrisPreistPodcsat.mp3]
My guest on this podcast is Chris Preist. Chris is a principal scientist at HP Labs, based at HPL’s European research centre in Bristol, UK.
HP Labs and Forum for the Future, together published a report called Climate Futures(6.7MB pdf). This report goes through 5 possible scenarios for how the world [...]
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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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