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I attended IBM’s eighth annual Software Analyst Connect (#Connect09) last week in Connecticut. The theme of the event was “IBM Software for a Smarter Planet”.
You have to admire IBM for coming up with the Smart Planet branding strategy. Now anything Smart (Smart ...
Energy/Transportation
Yesterday I got an update from an ERP company called Epicor that primarily serves the mid-market. While I am not an ERP specialist its always interesting, as a middleware guy, to get a view from the app side. Greenmonk for obvious reasons also takes a keener view than the RedMonk mothership ...
Green Living
Climate Change
Green Grid
IBM
Photo credit Jeremy Brooks
EU environment commissioner urges to cut emissions by 30 percent – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
“Europe should set a good example by agreeing to cut emissions by 30 percent from 1990 levels before the start ...
Environment
Green Grid
Ok, not all the time, but last weekend at 5:50am on Sunday morning (8th Nov) Spain set a new record, hitting 53.7% of its energy requirements being supplied by wind energy.
As you can see from the graph above, the amount of electricity being supplied by wind, the light green portion of ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Spain
Coal Mining
Energy agency warns of ‘irreparable’ damage – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist
“Take all the power stations in the United States. Together, they produce almost 1000 gigawatts of electricity – enough to boil several billion kettles simultaneously.
...
Energy/Transportation
Atmospheric CO2 Counter – WikiClimate
This page shows the current ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The calculated figure uses estimates of the level of carbon dioxide (CO2 – the main greenhouse gas) based on actual measurements taken monthly a worldwide network of stations and ...
Environment
Green Grid
CO2
Rich Lechner is IBM’s VP of Energy and Environment.
He is a regular interviewee here where we discuss various matters related to energy and environment. This interview was recorded while I was at the SAP TechEd 2009 event in Vienna in a crowded interview room so I apologise in ...
Energy/Transportation
(Lack of) Sustainability in the mobile phone industry
View more documents from Tom Raftery .
I realised recently that although I have referred to the talk I gave in Barcelona on Mobile Sustainability (for the Mobile 2.0 conference) in a couple of posts I never talked about the ...
Environment
Climate Change
Photo credit Ian Muttoo
Guido Bartels is General Manager of IBM’s Global Energy and Utilities Industry . Guido leads IBM’s corporate initiative around building an ‘Intelligent Utility Network,’ IBM’s portfolio of offerings and capabilities for the Smart Grid.
Guido ...
Energy/Transportation
Homeland Security
Disney Buys $7M in Reforestation Offsets, a Corporate Record
Walt Disney Corp., by donating about $7 million to various conservation programs, aims to offset a portion of its emissions. Some are calling the move by Disney the biggest single corporate investment in forest carbon offsets ...
Environment
Green Grid
Sustainability reporting is a bit all over the place. Standards, such as they are, are many, not widely agreed on, and are loosely observed.
One of the better sustainability reports to emerge this year was SAP’s . Unlike the staid PDF documents most companies put out, SAP’s ...
Green Living
I attend a lot of conferences.
The two most recent ones I was at were both run by SAP . The first was the International SAP for Utilities conference in Munich , the second was the SAP TechEd conference in Vienna. Both events were very interesting for a variety of reasons but both ...
Environment
Water Conservation
Coca-Cola
Al Jazeera English – Business – BP hit with record safety fine
“British Petroleum, one of the world’s largest energy companies, has been hit with a record fine of $87m for safety violations at a Texas refinery.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
Energy/Transportation
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:30 Tom Raftery : Kicking off now
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:30 MikeTheBee : Sound and Vid ok
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:30 Daithi : Grand
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:32 MikeTheBee : Ah I missed the tab, looked for link in the side menu
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:32 Tom Raftery : ...
Environment
Climate Change
Energy Efficiency
Photo credit Barack Obama
President Barack Obama was in Florida on Tuesday this week for the official opening of Florida Power and Light’s new solar energy power plant . The 90,000+ solar panel plant, which has been installed across 180 acres of the 5,000 acre FPL property, is ...
Energy/Transportation
Barack Obama
President Obama Announces $3.4 Billion Investment to Spur Transition to Smart Energy Grid
“Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. ...
