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- Go figure, for green tech geeks
- The World Resources Institute has built a new system for greenhouse gas GHG calculation. They've just posted on their website a lengthy PDF that contains what they say is state-of-math system for figuring GHG production.This system from WRI allows the user to build a customized GHG calculator based on...
- Tags: System, World Resources Institute, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
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- Could you green the world brick by brick?
- It's a brick."Well, the mainstream bricks boys do not like CalStar and want to prevent from the use of the very word 'brick.'"Oh, puh-lease. Even when people in third world countries put mud in molds on the ground and use sunlight to bake it, we still call them bricks.Yes, it's...
- Tags: CalStar, Oak Creek, ash, fly ash, Oak
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- A single national market for health care
- health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun
- Is there more wind power in our future? Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, says we can cut our greenhouse emissions 80% by 2020, if we use the wind that's just out there for the world to use. Brown says "Ask what can be done, NOT...
- Tags: China, Plant, Wind Energy, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- 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
- Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?
- One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our founders and a great personal friend said this: ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Argument, Tom, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy
- By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Time for Plan B?
- One planet-watcher thinks we've blown it with Plan A. Out of the Earth Policy Institute comes Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester R. Brown. Brown believes there is only one globally deadly horseman in the apocalypse: famine. "The biggest threat to...
- Tags: Nation, Lester R. Brown, Government, Vertical Industries, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff
- Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff sustainability presentation has been doing the rounds in American classrooms and has stoked up many on both sides of the political divide. On one side, parents tell of angst ridden kids now wondering about the ecological footprint of Lego and on...
- Tags: Sustainability, General Motors Corp., Annie Leonard, Sustainability Question, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Cisco's random acts of green-ness
- Two disclosures before I get to the body of this entry: First, an apology to the Linksys executive that I spoke with several weeks (maybe, ahem, two months ago) about their sustainability issues. Sorry it has taken so long to actually WRITE this post. Sorry for having...
- Tags: Sustainability, Supply Chain, Cisco Systems Inc., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion
- In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of such malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as high as $9.1 billion. Despite that their analysis also considered a much...
- Tags: Cost, Infection, Malware, Worm, Conficker, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory
- Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...
- Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- 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
- Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?
- On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...
- Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?
- On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...
- Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Microsoft, Intel, Cisco: "let's bring technology to the classroom"
- Microsoft, Intel and Cisco have met up at the Learning and Technology World Forum in London today, in a bid to transform the classroom into a 21st century technology haven. Prof. Barry McGaw, the director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, has been announced as...
- Tags: Assessment, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Technology, Intel Corp., GMT, Strategy, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- 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
- It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anything
- It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anythingScientific vs. Data Processing: Did you just switch sides?Even in a research institute, most of the people will use boring finance and word processing applications that are well supported on all the major computing platforms. On the other hand, niches...
- Tags: INTERNET, Desktops, Operating systems, nich, Sun Ray, mission critical, institute, PC, Sun Microsystems Inc., research institute
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Google vs. educational databases
- Google vs. educational databasesGoogle vs. Educational Databases: Some CommentsINTERNET SEARCH TOOLS AND SERVICES :DATABASES :OPINIONS:Google vs. Educational Databases: Some CommentsThis post is a response to a discussion on ZDNet Education cited in thispost on Net-Gold:INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS AND SERVICES :DATABASES:Google vs. Educational DatabasesThere are a number of observations that can...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, JStor, database, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Discover this: "Discover" and its own carbon footprint
- "Discover" Magazine profiled their own publication's carbon footprint. Here's the whole article, a brave move not likely to be popular among mag publishers. Here's some of what they found: "Two and one-tenth pounds of carbon dioxide. That is our best estimate of what is emitted...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Ton, DISCOVER, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
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