Category: Business
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Digital Lumens intelligent LEDs cut Maines energy for lighting by 87%
Photo of before and after installation of Digital Lumens lighting system in Maines Paper & Food Service courtesy of Digital Lumens. Digital Lumens reduced the cost of lighting for their first customer by 87%. Digital Lumens specialise in high-bay lighting for warehouses, cold storage facilities, and manufacturing plants. This is a mostly invisible but very…
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Adobe seems to have no commitment whatsoever to Sustainability
I was extremely lucky to be given a tour of Adobe’s triple platinum LEED certified HQ in Palo Alto last year. I video’d highlights of the tour and posted them here. At the time I was extremely impressed with Adobe’s sustainability initiatives. However, since then I have been more and more convinced […]
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Can Arqiva provide the Smart Grid communications infrastructure for Britain?
Photo credit Lee Jordan We had a really interesting Smart Grid related conversation with a company called Arqiva the other day. I hadn’t heard of Arqiva before but they are quite a significant player in communications infrastructure. They own or have exclusive marketing rights for 16,000 communication masts in UK – what they call vertical…
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Software cheaper in physical form than in soft copy?
I enjoy photography. I’m not very good at it but I have lots of fun trying new things with my camera all the time (see above my shot of a bee flying between flowers, for example). I use Adobe’s excellent Lightroom 3 Beta to manage my photos and to upload them to Flickr where I…
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Friday Green Numbers round-up 05/28/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: Infographic: Gulf oil spill by the numbers Amazing infographic of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill – puts it into perspective. tags: Gulf of Mexico, oilspill, bp, greennumbers Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before.…
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How not to implement a carbon tax
The decision by the French government to back down on plans to enact a carbon tax is very disappointing, and not a little puzzling. President Sarkozy initially said plans to introduce a carbon tax were a monumental act of the French Republic — a measure so important President Nicolas Sarkozy ranked it beside “decolonization, election…
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/05/2010
HP Named No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List HP today was ranked No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s (formerly known as CRO Magazine) 11th annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List. Climbing from fifth place in last year’s rankings, HP gained the No. 1 spot, as a result of its scores…
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/12/2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: Iberdrola Renovables Buys Spain’s Largest Wind Park (Update1) – BusinessWeek Iberdrola Renovables SA, the world’s largest operator of wind parks, agreed to buy Spain’s largest wind farm from Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica SA. Renovables, based in Valencia, paid Gamesa 320 million euros ($441 million) for 244 megawatts of power…