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I saw a report on the Green Data Center Blog today that a new industry group called GreenTouch has been formed with the express aim of reducing the amount of energy communications networks (including the Internet) use.
In fact their Global Mission is to, by 2015:
deliver the architecture, specifications and roadmap — [...]
I’m worried. I’m very worried.
The recent report by MIT on Climate Change was the
most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century
It found that
without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago [...]
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”). [...]
