I’ve just got into the office (Soho Square, don’t you know darlink) to see hundreds and hundreds of emails about Greenbang. This has reinforced my view that green business is one of the most important B2B topics to cover. So there should be no shortage of content and
Now then – there’s a lot of talk about how the Prius (Toyota’s fuel-and-battery-hybrid car) is way ahead in the green game. True – it’s free to drive around old London town as it’s exempt from the congestion charge (even though it still causes the same amount of
In the latest FT Digital Business podcast, my editor, Peter Whitehead, interviews Euan Davis from the analyst house Forrester. Mr Davis says there are three types of companies looking at green business: “There’s those companies that need to. There are the companies that want to and there are those
Todd Woody writes a blog today about a solar farm he visited in Melbourne, Australia. Woody has some good photos and interviews John Lasich, founder of the wind farm Solar Systems. Lasich told Woody he got an art student to craft a dish on his pottery wheel and adds… “I
Here we go then. I’ve been banging on for ages that I’m going to start a publication. After serious thought, blogging looks like it’s a lot more fun, so we’re going with that. From me, you can expect a different take on what’s happening around
SCC, the pan-European technology integrator and services provider, has invested £5 million in sourcing technology and services to help companies to turn the necessity of being compliant with recent IT equipment legislation such as WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) into a real opportunity. Customers can benefit from an extended,
Novell today announced that it has joined The Green Grid, a consortium of information technology companies and professionals committed to improving energy efficiency in the data centre. As a contributing member, Novell is working with other members of The Green Grid, such as AMD, Dell, HP, IBM and Microsoft, to
By Simon Forge, Ptak Noel & Associates 1 Where are we now? Natural climate change is part of our environment. Extreme variations have occurred during the past 60 million years, although for the last 10,000 years our climate has been relatively stable. But climate records since 1880 show rising
Recent research by Fujitsu Siemens Corporation and Computacenter reveals that: A typical PC left on for 24 hours a day for 220 days of the year is responsible for up to a tonne of CO2 over a typical 3-year lifecycle. Switching off a PC overnight and at weekends can save
The claims, the politics of offsetting and the reality… What’s the difference? Here’s the story from 3Par’s side: Bracknell, UK, 22nd January 2007–3PAR®, the leading provider of Utility Storage and pioneer of Thin Provisioning, announced today the 3PAR Carbon Neutral Storage program. For every terabyte of
You wouldn’t believe the amount of PR being generated around green IT. There’s some genuinely good stuff and some right old tosh. See what you think of this – especially the part about buying carbon credits to offset your emissions…I reckon there’ll be some trouble with this
