Nice post over at Greenmonk discussing the ability of virtual environments such as SecondLife to cut carbon emissions.
For example, the photo above is a training room for the French banking group Crédit Agricole. According to their Wikipedia entry, Crédit Agricole are the 8th largest bank in the world! Stonefield have purpose built training rooms [...]
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Jonathan Koomey of the Energy End-Use Forecasting group at LBNL released a report about how much power is consumed by computer servers.
This study estimates total electricity used by servers in the U.S. and the world by combining measured data and estimates of power used by the most popular servers with data on the server [...]
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From the NYTimes: graphical software tools for measuring home energy use tap into patterns of human behavior to lower energy consumption. Seems adaptable to the organizational context.
Digital Tools Help Users Save Energy, Study Finds
Giving people the means to closely monitor and adjust their electricity use lowers their monthly bills and could significantly reduce the need [...]
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