Category: carbon neutrality
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Digital Supply Chain, Climate 21, and Climate Change – a chat with Toby Croucher
It is April 2020 and we are currently in the middle of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic, however we will develop a vaccine for this virus, and so this crisis will finally pass. Unfortunately there is no similar “easy cure” for climate change. With that in mind, a huge amount of an organisation’s carbon footprint comes…
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Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint – A Case Study
I am speaking at the it@cork Green IT breakfast event tomorrow morning (5th March ’08). My presentation is “Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint – A Case Study” and I will be using CIX as a case study on how innovative thinking can lower your carbon footprint and your costs. The event kicks off…
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Shai Agassi's Better Place project explained
In my post about the DLD conference yesterday I showed the video of Shai Agassi’s presentation because I thought it was an amazingly good idea, well explained. However, when I checked out Shai’s blog I found the following video of kids doing a far better job getting Shai’s idea across (sorry Shai!). It is a…
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Blog action day
Today (15-10-2007) is Blog Action Day – a day when people who are concerned about the environment post something related to this topic on their blogs. I’ll be publishing a post later today about ways to increase the penetration of wind energy into the Irish Energy market.
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Al Gore and IPCC jointly win Nobel Peace prize
I see Reuters are reporting that Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have jointly been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The winners were chosen from 181 entries. This adds even more weight and credibility to the fantastic work being done by the IPCC and the long crusade Al Gore has waged…
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No James, we Irish are not complete gobshites
Or if we are, it is not for the reasons James thinks! James Corbett has a post today on his blog asking “Are we Irish complete gobshites?“. The post is lamenting the fact that we are not building wind farms to reduce our dependence on oil imports. I would answer James in the comment section…