According to the Financial Times (subs. req.), SAP is moving into the sustainability software space:
Regardless of compliance, organisations should be moving to a more sophisticated definition of what green IT entails, one that acknowledges the role IT can play in curbing emissions across the business, says Peter Graf, chief sustainability officer of enterprise software giant [...]
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I’ve been talking about IS for sustainability for some time now, so I’m glad to see that Google is getting on board in the area of energy monitoring via Power Meter. Here’s the Google framing:
Our lack of knowledge about our own energy usage is a huge problem, but also a huge opportunity for us [...]
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A paper by Tiffany Holmes of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago argues that visualizing energy use may be a powerful untapped method for promoting conservation.
What is “eco-visualization”?
…creative visualizations of real time energy consumption. ….Eco-visualization also functions as a kind of social data exchange that promotes environmental stewardship; this emerging field has [...]
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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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