IT uses just a few percentage points of all electricity in industry.
But IT can impact the other 98%, as I discuss in this blog.
In Moving Beyond the 2% Solution, Doug Neal calls this Green Hygiene versus Green Business. I like these terms. Hygiene is good. Business is better. Doug links the need for innovative information [...]
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Congratulations to Richard Alley and Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan who will share the 2009 Tyler Prize for environmental achievement. When asked by Andrew Revkin of the NY Times what comes next, Alley said:
We know so much about climate science, and environmental science in general, and the gap between the knowledge of the scientific community and the general community [...]
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From the “it was just a matter of time” category, Google is purportedly working on an iGoogle app that will grab data from your electric company and provide real-time, granular (and hopefully, easy to read) data on energy consumption. Will this spur energy sweepstakes? human-centered incentives? facebook energy walls? Sign me up.
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There are some interesting web 2.0 sites that harness social networks to make us more green. From the MakeMeSustainable blog:
How MakeMeSustainable Can Help
MakeMeSustainable was created to fill the void between how we feel about our environment and what we do about it. We bring you the tools to take action. Our Carbon and Energy Portfolio [...]
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