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- Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona
- Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- 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,...
- Tags: Architect, Carbon Footprint, Microsoft Corp., AIA, Leadership, Management
- Case studies 2009-07-14
- IBM on Sustainability: Time For Real Time
- Its hard not to be impressed with the strength of focus coming from IBM these days on sustainability. I'm ususally pretty sceptical about sustainability marketing efforts and IBM have a high hurdle to jump to reach a point of public credibility. But on the other hand technology companies, more than most sectors, are obliged to lead...
- Tags: Sustainability, IBM Corp., James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- 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
- News to know: Social media screwups; Microsoft's search; iPhone; Google
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Robin Harris: The $17.5 million hard drive Jason Perlow: National Archives: What, Me Worry? Jennifer Leggio: The very worst of social media ...
- Tags: Apple AirPort Express, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple Airport, Social Media, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- 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
- HP Report: Good Performance on Sustainability (but dinged by Greenpeace)
- HP released their 2008 sustainability report today and again, unsurprisingly, it's a deeply impressive effort. HP has pushed the boat out with substantive improvement in the quality of the disclosure as well the accessibility of the report which has been much enhanced with the use of interactive dashboards. I'm finding...
- Tags: Sustainability, Greenpeace, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Commitment, Goal, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Cisco makes big connection for its green cities vision
- Talk about circumventing the whole RFP process. Cisco Systems says it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding MOU to work with the Metropolis urban planning organization to define technology that could support its Vision 2030 for sustainable cities. Metropolis includes 106 of the largest...
- Tags: City, Vision, Cisco Systems Inc., Metropolis, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- 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
- How green is your e-tailer? Survey finds Internet and e-commerce businesses lacking in green tech leadership
- If almost your entire business value proposition was based on IT infrastructure, you would think you would be doing something about embracing green IT. But fully 82 percent of businesses in the Internet or e-commerce sector have yet to really embrace ecological considerations. That's according a survey released this month...
- Tags: Sustainability, Leadership, Green Technology, Rackable Systems, Survey, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- Sun provides mid-year green report card. How do you think it's doing?
- Another quick update: Sun Microsystems has again set a great example for the other high-tech vendors by posting a mid-year update to its corporate social responsibility and sustainability goals. I like to think of this as their "call of shame:" you can see for yourself that setting goals is one...
- Tags: Card, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Goal, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Corporate Social Responsibility, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Key Economic Indicator: Homeless in San Francisco Feeling the Strain This Holiday Season
- The economic displacement from the current downturn has been severe on the professional classes of Silicon Valley. Many of the majors are ramping up redundancy programmes and trimming pay and benefits. This can come at a heavy toll on the financial & emotional well being of real people and their families. Sometimes the results are even...
- Tags: Family, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Using TREES to save the forest
- Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...
- Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home
- The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...
- Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Open source is not all about the money
- Open source is not all about the moneyI'm kind of sorry to see them go.I just happened to come across this site: http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/sun_microsystems.htmIt seems that the "vultures" are striking early. I didn't really care for Sun's seesaw affair with Open Source but I believe their presence helped to strengthen...
- Tags: open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source IS
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- Is the 'Green' in Green IT dead?
- In a number of recent client interactions with both enterprise IT end users and vendors, the question of “Is the ‘green’ in Green IT dead?†has come up. Primarily driven by the current economic climate, IT end users want to understand how relevant the environmental benefits of Green IT should...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Green IT, Doug Washburn
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- It's not easy being green--Optimizing eco-friendly packaging
- It's not easy being green--Optimizing eco-friendly packagingSustainable Packaging Coalition a great source of infoFor business managers who are serious about implementing sustainability in packaging, the most reliable source for guidance is the [b]Sustainable Packaging Coalition SPC[/b] at [i]www.sustainablepackaging.org[/i]. The SPC is an industry working group of leadership companies dedicated...
- Tags: Sustainable Packaging Coalition
- Discussion threads 2008-10-18
- The Secrets of CEOs
- I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...
- Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Vodafone's Big(ish?) Adventure
- It's fun to think of similes to categorise the headlong rush towards CO2 reductions or at least the pledges for such. I think of Vodafone's pledge of a 50% cut of the 2007 baseline by 2020 as a 'Big Adventure'. They have not yet clearly identified how they will get there yet...
- Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Carbon Dioxide, Climate Situation, Jonathon Porritt, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
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