I keynote, write, and podcast about Sustainability, CleanTech and Supply Chain
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Rich Lechner is IBM’s VP of Energy and Environment. He is a regular interviewee here where we discuss various matters related to energy and environment. This interview was recorded while I was at the SAP TechEd 2009 event in Vienna…
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(Lack of) Sustainability in the Mobile industry
(Lack of) Sustainability in the mobile phone industry View more documents from Tom Raftery. I realised recently that although I have referred to the talk I gave in Barcelona on Mobile Sustainability (for the Mobile 2.0 conference) in a couple…
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Guido Bartels of GridWise and IBM discusses Smart Grids with GreenMonk
Photo credit Ian Muttoo Guido Bartels is General Manager of IBM’s Global Energy and Utilities Industry. Guido leads IBM’s corporate initiative around building an ‘Intelligent Utility Network,’ IBM’s portfolio of offerings and capabilities for the Smart Grid. Guido is also…
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SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management tool could be a real game-changer!
Sustainability reporting is a bit all over the place. Standards, such as they are, are many, not widely agreed on, and are loosely observed. One of the better sustainability reports to emerge this year was SAP’s. Unlike the staid PDF…
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Never run a conference at a venue that can’t provide water dispensing machines, instead of bottled water
I attend a lot of conferences. The two most recent ones I was at were both run by SAP. The first was the International SAP for Utilities conference in Munich, the second was the SAP TechEd conference in Vienna. Both…
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Nice Dutch project using ‘waste’ heat and CO2 to increase greenhouse yields!
Photo credit przemion Came across a great story on pressreleasefinder today via Twitter about a project in the Netherlands called WarmCO2. What is WarmCO2? It is a project which takes residual heat and CO2 from Dutch fertiliser manufacturer Yara…
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There’s gold in them thar bills!
Photo credit Urban Jacksonville The output from smart meters is incredibly granular. Far more so than is obvious from the smart meter output graph above. In conversations with Dr Monica Sturm (Director of Siemen’s Center of Competence, Metering Services) last…
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