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Paper reduction – Green and Sexy!

by Tom Raftery on April 30, 2009 · 12 comments

in paper reduction

Photo credit crustmania
Paper reduction is just not a sexy topic. Virtualising your servers, making your building more energy efficient, or using TelePresence to reduce your carbon footprint – these are big, exciting, engineering projects. How can you compete with that?
Well consider three little known facts:

The pulp and paper industry is the single largest consumer [...]

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Beam me up Scotty!

by Tom Raftery on April 16, 2009 · 2 comments

in travel

The WWF published a report, funded by HP and Microsoft, about the potential climactic benefits of a greater adoption of videoconferencing technologies. One of the items in the report which caught my eye was the stat that:

substituting 5-30% of current air travel by videoconferencing could avoid 5.59-33.53 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually
The report [...]

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Cisco’s John Chambers talks Green

by Tom Raftery on January 14, 2009 · 0 comments

in social software

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”). [...]

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