Tag: carbon_footprint

  • Had a ball at BarCamp Galway

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    Tom Raftery
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    I went to BarCamp Galway over the weekend. I arrived a bit late because I drove up from Cork on Saturday morning and then spent around 30 minutes wandering around NUIG looking for the DERI institute before I realised it is off-campus! I eventually made it at 11 – just in time for coffee and…

  • Just arrived in Copenhagen

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have just arrived in Copenhagen for Reboot 9.0. I’m giving a talk tomorrow at 12:20 on “Reducing Information Technology’s ever-increasing carbon footprint”. This is in the context of the work we are doing building a hyper energy-efficient data centre in CIX. There’s a meetup organised for tonight which I will be going along to.…

  • Yahoo! also going for carbon neutrality!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see Yahoo! has announced that it is going to follow our lead in CIX *cough* and aim for carbon neutrality! In the announcement David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! said: we’re going to invest in greenhouse gas reduction projects around the world to neutralize Yahoo!’s impact on the environment. While doing our homework on this,…