Category: Featured Posts
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The rise of the energy manager role
One of the topics which I responded to on the recent IBM Eco Jam was “IT’s Central Role In Managing Energy & Carbon”. This topic was raised by another analyst (again IBM has asked me not to mention participants by name but if the analyst in question sees this and wants me to name him/her,…
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Forget mobile phone chargers – they are not the problem!
I participated in the recent IBM Global Eco Jam and there were some fantastic discussions there. One of the discussions surprised me though – people were still talking about unplugging mobile phone chargers as if that was a significant problem. It is not. On the contrary, it is a dangerous distraction. Watch the video above.…
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How long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters?
Photo credit bmitchellw Oracle published the results of a very interesting study recently called Testing the Water: Smart Metering for Water Utilities. Now, we have all heard about the compelling case for Smart Meters for electrical consumption (I have written and spoken about it extensively) but in this study Oracle asked utilities and their customers…
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Costs of running communication networks about to tumble?
Photo credit IronRodArt I saw a report on the Green Data Center Blog today that a new industry group called GreenTouch has been formed with the express aim of reducing the amount of energy communications networks (including the Internet) use. In fact their Global Mission is to, by 2015: deliver the architecture, specifications and roadmap…
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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 of posts I never talked about the talk directly here, so now it is time…