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- "Meat has a carbon footprint?" This blogger must be ignorant!
- yes lets all starve In the name of a myth.Isn't this an IT site? I don't manage cows thank you very much.There is no worse combination than...ignorance AND arrogance in the same individual - when you think you know but haven't got a clue. It is probably an incurable...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-22
- "Meat has a carbon footprint?" This blogger must be ignorant!
- One talkback on my locavore blog says; "Meat has a carbon footprint? I guess all the carbon in that cow comes from pixie dust, eh? Or maybe we drill oil out of the ground and grow cows out of it." Wow! Carbon footprint is a tough concept, I see....
- Blog posts 2009-08-22
- Locavore: more than a matter of taste
- Must be related somehowGoogle Books sued by a pig, cat and dogJust when you think you can't be surprised by the level of ignorance from people, something like this article comes along.Meat has a carbon footprint? I guess all the carbon in that cow comes from pixie dust, eh? Or...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Microsoft Builds a Green Campus to Save Costs and Reduce Carbon Footprint
- Microsoft planned to expand its facilities in Shanghai, China, beginning in late 2007. It needed to incorporate sustainable building requirements and cost savings into the campus. Microsoft IT worked with other Microsoft teams to build and run a green campus in Shanghai. The teams focused on deriving benefits from the...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Architects' Association Builds Environmental Sustainability on Document Solution
- Builders look to architects to design buildings that help reduce carbon footprints - and many architects look to the American Institute of Architects AIA for guidance. The AIA has taken a leadership role in green technology in several ways: by eliminating the production and distribution of paper for board meetings,...
- Case studies 2009-07-14
- Best Practices in Carbon Footprint Modeling: Going Beyond Inventories and Calculations
- Off late highly competitive economy presents many obstacles to profitable growth and customer retention. In a 2008 McKinsey Quarterly article, "Business Strategies for Climate Change," the authors explain: "... the winners will be companies that reposition themselves to seize the opportunities of a low-carbon future." This statement has been echoed...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Survey: Don't just measure, do something!
- You know all those carbon footprint calculator tools that you can find all over the Web? Well, it seems not that many people are actually using them. A recent poll finds that just 7.1 percent of Americans in this survey group at least have attempted to figure...
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Intuit service maps QuickBooks expense data to carbon impact
- Most of the carbon footprint calculators housed out on the Internet are intended for either consumers or big businesses. Intuit, long-time friend of the little guy, has introduced a free service called Green Snapshot that hooks into your QuickBooks software and uses the information you provide about your expenses to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- New carbon emissions tracker is focused on professional services organizations
- Feeling neglected because many carbon emissions analysis "tools" typically are focused on companies that create hard goods and that have facilities and manufacturing lines to manage and products to deliver rather than those of the intellectual sort? Non-profit organization Noblis is launching a service to help address...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- HP MPS Deal at AIB Yields 30 Per Cent Cost Saving and Lowers Carbon Footprint
- Allied Irish Bank AIB wanted a Managed Print Services MPS solution at its head office that would improve service quality, deliver cost savings and lower operational risk. AIB examined its print cost profile and visited several UK and Irish financial reference sites to explore best practice scenarios. AIB implemented the...
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- InterCall, Inc. Avoids Nearly a Ton of Carbon Dioxide From Designated "Zero Travel Day" for Employees
- InterCall, Inc. wanted to implement business technology solutions that will allow the company to scale as it continues to grow and help customers reduce their travel and associated carbon footprint by providing a variety of easy-to-use conferencing technologies. The challenge was to keep the green momentum going internally - not...
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- How green is my campus?
- A nationwide contest has begun to see which American college or university can become the greenest. And this is not requiring huge solar installations or major building weatherization, though those projects are worthwhile. This contest is based on individual, voluntary action by hundreds of participating students, faculty and...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Earth Rangers data center is small in size and carbon footprint, big on environmental impact
- Non-profit children's environmental awareness group Earth Rangers, working together with Dell, Nortel, Pillar Data Systems and VMware, managed to shrink a new data center into one-tenth the space that it COULD have claimed in its LEED Gold-certified building. At only 100 square feet in size, the data...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Gas Mileage Tips 1.05 (Mobile)
- High price of gas driving you crazy? This application gives you loads of ideas on just what you can do to improve your gas mileage and reduce your overall carbon footprint.
- Software downloads 2009-03-16
- Power to the people: Tendril introduces mobile API into consumption data
- I wrote about Tendril about a month ago, when it signed a partnership deal with one of the bigger metering technology companies, Itron. Now, the company has introduced a mobile software API that will let developers create mobile applications that can pull power consumption information out of smart grid systems...
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam Report
- All email users throughout the world, including consumers and businesses, struggle with the scourge of spam email. The costs and risks associated with spam have been well documented and have led to attempts by both government and private industry to curtail spam, notably the United States legislature's CAN-SPAM Act of...
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Carbon Footprint Modeling With SAS for Sustainability Management: Beyond Calculation
- This paper will explain the differences between calculating and modeling emissions, the critical parallels between cost and GreenHouse Gas GHG accounting, collecting and managing data, and using activity-based modeling practices to gain invaluable insight from such efforts. Readers will be able to see how the technologies that are part of...
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Pimp your ride with a new fuel efficiency meter
- First in-car breathalyzers, now fuel efficiency meters. A Dallas-based start-up called Fuel Efficiency Centers is selling a gadget called the Fuel Efficiency Adviser, which it claims can help drivers save gas costs and reduce their carbon footprint contribution. The device, which retails for $159.95, tracks the impact...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- What is my breakfast orange juice doing to our planet?
- It isn't good news unless my orange juice is organic. The biggest single cause of greenhouse gas emissions across the entire orange grove to juice glass industry? The artificial fertilizer that insures a big and profitable crop. That's the result of a study paid for by PepsiCo,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- Using Web Conferencing to Help Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
- Communicating effectively in order to build strong relationships and boost success is a leading goal of most companies and corporations. However, with the recognition of the reality of global warming and the acknowledgment of the severe impacts that all of the activities have on the planet, many businesses are now...
- White papers 2009-01-01
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