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Could Congress head off action by EPA on emissions?

There's a move sponsored by Republicans to keep the EPA from taking administrative action to curtail industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The opponents of EPA action say the Clean Air Act was never intended to stop greenhouse gas emissions. Regardless of Congressional action, it is highly unlikely President...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, U.S. Congress, Greenhouse Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Like ITIL, but for managing greenhouse emissions

Remember how the Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL transformed the management of IT projects and maintenance? Well, the British Standards Institute has now come up with a specification that provides guidepoints for improving energy efficiency. The framework is called BS EN 16001, and it offers tips for how to write...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, Information Technology, Specification, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Fat people an environmental issue now? How about flatulence?

On a planet with insufficient resources that would be Earth for us all live like hedge-fund traders, it follows that the HAVES will not be popular with the HAVE-NOTS. And that may even go for human obesity. A medical journal has just published research showing that...

Tags: Calorie, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Greenhouse Gas, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-20

EPA formally declares a pox on excess greenhouse gas emissions

EPA formally declares a pox on excess greenhouse gas emissionsGovernment OUT of controlTea Parties are happening everywhere, I am surethe new dictator will be mandating all kinds ofnew communist laws.It will take a total crash of the country for people to realize this is not the 'change' or the CHAINS...

Tags: Tea Party, Oboma, global warming, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Discussion threads 2009-04-18

EPA formally declares a pox on excess greenhouse gas emissions

I'm surprised Harry Fuller hasn't blogged about this one, yet, but perhaps he is in the great outdoors today. Because I'm not a reporter in Washington, I figured the most useful thing for me to do is create a mini-table-of-contents to some of the coverage of the...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, Greenhouse Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-18

EMC moves to help shape emissions reporting criteria

EMC has put its name down as a sponsor of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Product and Supply Chain Initiative, which is a joint project of the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development. The effort aims to establish a standard set of measures for tracking...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, Emission, Greenhouse Gas, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-03-23

New carbon monitoring resources available via the Web

If one of your near-year-end resolutions is to build out the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reporting for your company, there are a couple of new resources that have been released in the past week. First off, Sun Microsystems has updated the tools that are available on...

Tags: Web, Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-17

C-Lock Technology Streamlines Greenhouse Gas Emission Monitoring Processes to Help Save the Planet Using an SOA Solution From IBM and EIM

C-Lock Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Evergreen Energy, Inc., is headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota. C-Lock Technology was established in March 2007 in response to the growing need for a standard, efficient method for organizations to monitor carbon dioxide and other GreenHouse Gas GHG emissions, an increasingly critical...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, Greenhouse Gas, SOA, IBM Corp., C-Lock Technology, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-10-01

Is hot air a greenhouse gas? Or just ear pollution?

They talked global warming down in Australia. All those leaders from the U.S., China, Japan, Russia, host-nation Australia, Indonesia and fifteen other nations agreed that they aspire to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Boy, that's reassuring. These leaders didn't do anything radical, like promise to do anything. ...

Tags: China, Leader, Pollution, Greenhouse Gas, Declaration, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Shop online -- save the earth

A study concludes that e-commerce may already be reducing global warming, energy use and air pollution. WASHINGTON -- Save the earth. Shop online. That's the bumper sticker slogan suggested by a new study finding potentially significant environmental benefits as a consequence of the Internet and e-commerce....

Tags: U.S., Energy Efficiency, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Study, Pollution, Greenhouse Gas, E-business, Internet, Web Technology, Bryan Lee, Technology News

News items 1999-12-10

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Could you green the world brick by brick?

One California-based company is going to try. And they're going to make those "green" bricks in Wisconsin, not ship them in from China. The new-fangled brick has been pioneered by CalStar Products. A basic ingredient of the CalStar brick is coal ash, residue from burning coal. There...

Tags: Brick, CalStar Products, Coal Ash, Michael Kane, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Big carbon emitters fighting two wars simultaneously in America

I recently blogged about the EPA's move against major greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S. Well, the utilities, industrial air polluters, fossil fuel industry and their allies are fighting another, equally crucial war to maintain their current business models. This attack on Big Energy is led by a...

Tags: Global Warming, Alaska, Kivalina, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-03

What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?

It's not peak oil and it's not war. But it is a greentech issue. It's population growth. But without unbridled population growth it's very hard to maintain economic growth. This issue strikes at the very heart of 21st Century business and politics. That's why we...

Tags: Bill Gates, Population Growth, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-29

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

Before Copehagen, there'll be Pittsburgh, and then there'll be...

a whole string of international meetings aimed at coming to some kind of globally acceptable agreement on global warming. Consider this a warm-up for the sci fi imagined event of the killer asteroid headed our way. Can humans really co-operate on the mega-scale? We haven't so far....

Tags: Agreement, Climate Change, Global Warming, Pittsburgh, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Olive drab isn't the only green the Army cares about

Want to know what the U.S. Army uses to manage its greenhouse gas emissions? The agency just extended its deployment of software from Enviance, which develops a greenhouse gas reporting and management system. After a pilot in Colorado's Fort Carson, the application is being rolled out at...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Enviance System, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Big brains reax to NOAA global warming warnings

The MIT Technology Review previously glommed onto the temperature rises contained in the NOAA global warming report. Ten degrees or more before the end of this century. Kansas, for example, would have 120 days of highs topping 90 degrees. The Kansas ag industry might try growing sugar...

Tags: NOAA, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

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

Greenpeace Cool IT: But does GP miss the point?

Greenpeace upped the ante on the IT sector by switching focus from reporting on the environmental performance of consumer electronics to looking at how the industry as a whole is performing on climate change. Yesterday they launched their inaugural Cool IT ranking of the top 12 IT firms performing on climate change. The ranking is...

Tags: Greenpeace, Information Technology, James Farrar, Management, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-05-28