Tag: ibm
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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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Just how green is cloud computing?
Cloud computing may not be as Green as you think. I mentioned previously that I gave a keynote presentation at the Green IT Summit in Dublin last week. In the question and answers session after the talk, Sean Baker asked about cloud computing and whether I thought companies using cloud computing weren’t simply outsourcing their…
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/26/2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: GE Announces Major European Offshore Wind Expansion with a Planned €340 Million Investment for Manufacturing, Engineering and Service Facilities in Four Countries GE today announced plans to invest approximately €340 million to develop or expand its wind turbine manufacturing, engineering and service facilities in four European countries—the United…
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Rich Lechner talks about Smart Buildings and a Smarter Urban Infrastructure
I had a great chat about Smart Buildings the other day with IBM’s VP Energy and Environment, Rich Lechner. Why are smart buildings important? Well, as Rich says, in the US buildings are responsible for about 70% of the energy consumption and for about 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted. When you combine that with…
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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…
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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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IBM Global Eco-Efficiency Jam Day 2
Today is the final day of IBM’s Global Eco-efficiency Jam (it finishes at 6pm CET today) and it has been awesome. There have been hundreds of discussions on all manner of Eco-related topics – everything from LEED certification, to Green software engineering, to Energy Efficiency certificates to Smart cities and collaboration. People have been asking…