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With great power comes great responsibility – or, Cloud companies need to get on-board

With great power comes great responsibility – or, Cloud companies need to get on-board

By Tom Raftery on March 4, 2012

With great power comes great responsibility This great quote from the movie Spider-Man, is just as true for technology, as it is for superheroes. Technology has made possible tremendous changes in our quality of life in the last couple of decades. Everything from surgery to transportation, education to construction, space exploration and most other fields […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged climate change, Cloud, data centres, environment, environmental impact of ICT, green, ict footprint, Manufacturing, methodology, standardisation

Carbon Survey Calls Salesforce Leader in Carbon Abatement

Carbon Survey Calls Salesforce Leader in Carbon Abatement

By Denis Pombriant on September 21, 2011

Marc Benioff’s Facebook page says that Salesforce.com is a rising leader in the effort to get carbon out of business.  I didn’t know there was such a survey or report but I am glad there is. Getting carbon out of your business processes is hugely important.  While most people will view this as an anti-pollution […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged benioff, Cisco, climate change, CRM, Current Affairs, economics, global warming, google, salesforce.com

Friday Green Numbers round-up for Feb 4th 2011

Friday Green Numbers round-up for Feb 4th 2011

By Tom Raftery on February 4, 2011

And here is a round-up of this week’s Green numbers… Europe’s Energy Member States of the European Union have agreed on targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by cutting energy consumption by 20% and increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix to 20% by 2020. The ‘Europe’s Energy’ project gives users a […]

Posted in Business | Tagged arctic oscillation, arctic sea ice, cleantech, climate change, distributech, Energy, energy efficiency, europe, fuel prices, global warming, GreenNumbers, nsidc, petrol, smart grid, utilities

IBM Start – positive outcomes from the fabulous Sustainable Energy day

IBM Start – positive outcomes from the fabulous Sustainable Energy day

By Tom Raftery on September 29, 2010

I have already written about how well the IBM Start event started out – well I wanted to dive a little deeper into one of the days in particular – the Smarter Energy for a Sustainable future day. Why? For me, it was by far the best day of the event. IBM Start – Building […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged charles hendry, climate change, decc, Energy, energyaid, ibm, ibmstart, Sustainability, Sustainable energy, wateraid

Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/30/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/30/2010

By Tom Raftery on July 30, 2010

Photo credit Lauren Manning And here are this week’s Green Numbers: GE: Good citizen, but where’s the payoff? Inside GE, Ecomagination is deemed a success, so much so that it has spawned a sister initiative (if you can spawn a sister) called Healthymagination, focused on profitably creating better health for more people. GE says that […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged aerogenerator, Carbon emissions, climate change, CSR, GE, Green Investment Bank, GreenNumbers, phytoplankton, rbs, Royal Bank of Scotland, subsidies, synapsense, tpc-energy, Wind turbine

Friday Green Numbers round-up 05/28/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 05/28/2010

By Tom Raftery on May 28, 2010

And here is this week’s Green numbers: Infographic: Gulf oil spill by the numbers Amazing infographic of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill – puts it into perspective. tags: Gulf of Mexico, oilspill, bp, greennumbers Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged apple, climate change, Dell, exxon, exxon mobil, Foxconn, GreenNumbers, hon hai, oilspill, peak water, Quantum teleportation, Sustainability

Friday Green Numbers round-up 04/23/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 04/23/2010

By Tom Raftery on April 23, 2010

And here is this week’s Green numbers: Like Sept.11, volcano plane ban may hold climate clue | Reuters Plane-free skies over Europe during Iceland’s volcanic eruption may yield rare clues about how flights stoke climate change, adding to evidence from a closure of U.S. airspace after September 11, 2001, experts say tags: airplane, aviation, iceland, […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged ashtag, Carbon emissions, climate change, CSR, eirgrid, Greenhouse gas, GreenNumbers, Iceland, sustainability reporting, taiwan, transmission network, volcano

Investors, the EPA and now the SEC are making pollution an increasingly unattractive option

Investors, the EPA and now the SEC are making pollution an increasingly unattractive option

By Tom Raftery on March 11, 2010

Photo credit Neubie A perfect storm consisting of the EPA, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and investors is pressuring companies to come clean on their environmental risks and performance. I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago about FaceBook’s decision to use a primarily coal-burning utility to power its new data center where […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Carbon dioxide, climate change, Fossil fuel, Greenhouse gas, investors, pollution, Risk, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, shareholders

Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from coal?

Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from coal?

By Tom Raftery on February 23, 2010

Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from primarily coal-fired power? FaceBook is fourth largest web property (by unique visitor count) and well on its way to becoming third. It is valued in excess of $10 billion and its investors include Russian investment company DST, Accel […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Accel Partners, arsenic, bp, climate change, co2, coal, data center, Electricity generation, Facebook, Fossil fuel power plant, Greenhouse gas, Greylock Partners, investor, investor revolt, mercury, PacifiCorp, pollution, radiation, Risk, selenium, shell

UK’s Carbon reduction commitment legislation – the shape of things to come globally!

UK’s Carbon reduction commitment legislation – the shape of things to come globally!

By Tom Raftery on December 4, 2009

Screenshot credit Tom Raftery – data from NASA
The world is getting warmer. 2008 was the 9th warmest year on record. 2009, barring a sudden, severe, global cold snap, will end up being the 4th or 5th warmest year on record and with El Niño coming on in the Pacific, 2010 looks likely to set […]

Posted in Business | Tagged carbon reduction commitment, climate change, crc, emissions trading, Legislation | 1 Response

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