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1.6 mln UK Internet users paid a visit to an energy Web site in Feb 2006

On the day that British Gas raises its prices by 22% and Powergen announces that its are to increase by 24%, Nielsen//NetRatings reveals how the UK online population has been flocking to energy sites throughout February as the major suppliers began announcing large price increases in response to the rising...

Tags: British Gas

Blog posts 2006-03-05

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East Anglia: anger and aggro

One must live through it in order to fully understand itOnly in this case some will have to face huge collateral damage. Fortunately those who will suffer the most are living in already hard hit areas so they are quite used to a life of pain and suffering and as...

Tags: E-mail, East Anglia

Discussion threads 2009-11-26

Climate change denial: only in America? Then, there's global cooling...

You don't want to know that the BBC,the most listened to source of news in the English language, is reporting on global cooling?There you go again, HarryYou almost made it - a whole week without enviro-whacko. But you didn't make it...Sad...Reading AssignmentPlease, take a look. Page 10 might enlighten...

Tags: climate change, Climate Change Denial, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

U.S. still thumbing its nose at global warming agreements

Japan's new prime minister is leaning toward putting greenhouse gas emission limits on his nation. This week he will tell the U.N. he wants a 25% reduction in emissions by 2020. The out-going Japanese regime had been less interested in taking action. There's no such move likely from...

Tags: Agreement, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-20

Airlines on Climate: Don't blame us blame the Banks

I've posted before in these pages about how the business lobby, under pressure to respond to climate change, is starting to fracture. There was another dramatic example of this yesterday in Kuala Lumpur at the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association IATA when the CEO, Giovanni Bisignani, took an...

Tags: Bank, Carbon, Climate, Climate Group, Government, James Farrar, Management, Strategy, UK Air Passenger Duty

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Sustainable change or SOX 2.0?

I had not intended riffing on my colleague Vinnie Mirchandani's piece: How ERP vendors can change the world. Seriously. We'd discussed the topic over the phone earlier in the week and at the time it was clear he had a solid position which Larry Dignan duly picks up. But there...

Tags: Strategy, Sustainability, Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Consulting, Vinnie Mirchandani, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, Regulations, Financial Services, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?

The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...

Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-24

2009 Aston Martin DB9 Volante

Photo gallery:2009 Aston Martin DB9 VolantePeople use the word sexy too freely when describing inanimate objects these days, but if ever a thing should deserve this adjective, it's the 2009 Aston Martin DB9 Volante. This long, classic grand tourer uses its creases and curves suggestively, without resorting to ostentation or...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Aston-Martin DB9 Volante, cabin, dashboard, DB9

Product reviews 2009-04-20

Fat people an environmental issue now? How about flatulence?

Fat people an environmental issue now? How about flatulence?Who is John Galt?I?m sure the government will find a way to tax or regulate fat. Or whatever the collectivists decide for us. RE: Fat people an environmental issue now? How about flatulence?I think Cap and Trade will adress this issue. I...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, flatulence, Fat people, tax, methane, environmental, Oboma

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Britain tries to electricify its auto industry

Britain tries to electricify its auto industryThe government could buy everybody Tata carsfor that kind of moneyWell, this is a good move on the British's partAnd on the part of the Americans. There is only one little problem however...... plugin cars can only be driven VERY short distances compared to...

Tags: car

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

International Airlines to UN: Set us a CO2 Target Now (but US carriers still ponder)

People in business often speak of NGO's in a kind of wide eyed way, a mixture of fear and curiosity, but most vastly under estimate their capability. Granted, NGOs are as diverse as businesses - some are hopeless, some perform magnificently. For illustration of the latter & the potency of a sophisticated and intelligent NGO, then look no...

Tags: Aviation, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carrier, Climate Group, Emission, James Farrar, Management, Nancy, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Another WiFi health scare breaks out

Another WiFi health scare breaks outOh NOooooo! Not their precious cell phones![i]And if electromagnetic waves are truly dangerous, why aren?t the cranks going after cell phone companies, or TV and radio stations?[/i]They won't go after cell phones because most people are addicted to cell phones. If you were...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless and Mobility, health care, cell phone, Wi-Fi, phone

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Salesforce's unspoken build and buy strategy

At this week's Cloudforce I was keen to understand what is happening on the Force.com platform. Narinder Singh,  Appirio's marketing strategist came on stage to talk about how they used the Force.com platform to set up MyStarbucksidea.com. This is an example of a situational application, built and designed for a...

Tags: Strategy, Salesforce.com Inc., Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Let's put CO2 underground, and then...

Let's put CO2 underground, and then...C02 is the gas in soda waterA Pakistan newspaper article is the source of your global warming fear?morons!CO2 storage is the largest scam perpetrated by the echo nuts.It boils down to a slow release from underground that would have ZERO effect on green house gases...

Tags: C02, CO2 storage, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?

As it looks more and more like the U.S. government might actually take action to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, the proponents and opponents of any action are getting more strident. The politics are getting more brutal. President Obama is hosting a conference on global warming...

Tags: Spain, Wind Farm, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-28

Terasen Gas Turns to Microsoft BI to Gain Insight and Improve Decision Making

Terasen Gas, part of the Fortis Group, is based in Surrey, British Columbia, and is the third-largest utility company in Canada, providing natural gas and propane to 125 communities throughout the province. Access to accurate data in real-time is critical to the company's success, and it needed technology that would...

Tags: Decision-making, Terasen Inc., Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Office, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Office Suites

Case studies 2009-03-13

Is the U.S. unable to deal with global warming?

The head of the International Panel appointed by the U.N.to deal with climate change is not optimistic about the United States' ability to respond to global warming. He told a British paper President Obama would face a "revolution" if he tries to bring the U.S. in line with greenhouse...

Tags: U.S., Greenhouse Gas, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Weasels in the Woodwork

Dennis Howlett makes some terrific points in comparing the new Jive Software 'Social Business Software' that refreshes the Clearspace 2.5 product line today with existing enterprise incumbents. Dennis and his cohorts in the enterprise irregulars have seen a few laps of the enterprise software game...

Tags: Sony Corp., Middle Management, Dennis Howlett, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Bi-partisan conflab on carbon controls in U.S.

A former British Prime Minister, a bunch of corporate CEOs and a quartet of Senators from the two parties...alll talking global warming. Tony Blair, GE, Vinod Khosla, let's do something was the concensus. John Chambers was there on behalf of Cisco. Certainly Cisco and GE...

Tags: General Electric Co., Cisco Systems Inc., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Green is still Gold (But Beware of the Politics of Gesture)

Foolhardy it may be to go out on a limb here to take on my boss (in this carnation I mean my editor, Larry Dignan) and a force of nature that is my fellow ZDNET blogger Dennis Howlett but I have to disagree with both on the subject of viability of the green market....

Tags: Sustainability, Oracle Corp., Gesture, Dennis, Hugh McLeod, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-02-28