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Green Links for July 29th through July 30th
July 29th through July 30th:
Green Computing Still Held Back By Costs « Earth2Tech - A recent study by computer retailer CDW shows that most IT decision makers believe in making their technology infrastructure greener and more energy efficient.
The End of Cheap and Easy Carbon Credits « Earth2Tech - http://earth2tech.com/2008/07/29/the-end-of-cheap-and-easy-carbon-credits/
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Green Links for July 21st through July 23rd
July 21st through July 23rd:
Reusable shipping container - Treepac is a reusable shipping container intended to replace cardboard boxes. Its structure is made entirely of sustainable wood-based polymer cellulose acetate
Editorial: High water | Comment is free | The Guardian - No country is better placed than Britain to draw energy from the seas.
Three Web sites [...]
Car makers to reveal emissions in adverts
EU may force car makers to reveal emissions in adverts…Details of the proposal to compel car manufacturers to own up to the carbon footprint of their vehicles will be unveiled by the end of the month.
Me and my carbon conscience at the Cricket Club
I first met the Carbon Stash boys in a bar in Colombo. Its called the Cricket Club Cafe and I didn’t know where it was.
“You haven’t been to the Cricket Club?” said Subra, one of the founders of MCS, clearly appalled that I had not yet visited the centre of ex-pat nightlife. “But that is [...]
UK footprint growing
The UK carbon footprint appears to be growing due to “a sharp rise in car journeys, a decline in cycling and a dramatic increase in commercial flights.” The Times also has an interesting eco map of Britain (PDF file).
Corporate Environmentalism Seminar
On Wednesday, I attended a seminar on corporate environmentalism organised by the American chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka. All in all, it was fairly good with some great speakers, a couple of whom could perhaps have done better. One of my colleagues looked very pleased with himself that almost all the keynote speakers have [...]
Green Links for May 5th through May 7th
What we’re reading:
Delaying data could cut net’s carbon footprint | New Scientist Tech - “…subtly tweaking the flow of network traffic to allow routers and servers to work less hard, or spend more time “sleeping” in a resting state could make dramatic savings.”
bionavitas: biofuels, health, environment - Bionavitas? mission is to harness the abundant power [...]
Football’s green claims
Football’s green claim is really a red herring - “as they lecture us all about how clean, green and aware they are, Uefa will limp on with a carbon footprint so enormous Peter Crouch would be hard pressed to fit his boot in it”
airline-emissions
Airline emissions ‘far higher than previous estimates’ - The aviation industry’s failure to curb its soaring carbon emissions could lead to the “worst case scenario” for climate change, as envisaged by the United Nations. The report can be found here.
The market-based approach to capping and trading carbon emissions is currently “anarchic” and will not necessarily help the poor… Professor Mohan Munasinghe…told Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Board and Committee members in Colombo, Sri Lanka.