Tag: pollution
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3 Ways Electric Cars Are Changing More Than the Way We Drive
Part 1 of 3 on the Future of Transportation and the Internet of Things The world is moving away from cars based on the internal combustion engine (ICEs). The future is electric. With Tesla leading the way on what’s possible with electric vehicles, more traditional auto manufacturers are following suit. Volvo has announced that all…
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Friday Green Numbers round-up 05/07/2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here are this week’s Green numbers: BP ‘facing £15bn loss’ over Gulf of Mexico oil spill | Business | The Guardian It doesn’t pay to pollute. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster is likely to cost BP $23bn (£15bn) and its shares can be expected to lag behind…
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Investors, the EPA and now the SEC are making pollution an increasingly unattractive option
Photo credit Neubie A perfect storm consisting of the EPA, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and investors is pressuring companies to come clean on their environmental risks and performance. I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago about FaceBook’s decision to use a primarily coal-burning utility to power its new data center where…
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/26/2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: Mitsubishi to build £100m UK wind turbine factory | Environment | guardian.co.uk Government aim of making Britain a centre of green manufacturing win a major boost from plans that will create hundreds of jobs tags: greennumbers, uk, wind, mitsubishi, wind turbine Hydrogen taxi cabs to serve London by…
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Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from coal?
Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from primarily coal-fired power? FaceBook is fourth largest web property (by unique visitor count) and well on its way to becoming third. It is valued in excess of $10 billion and its investors include Russian investment company DST, Accel…
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Do risk and compliance have a part to play in reducing pollution?
Do risk and compliance have a part to play in reducing pollution? EQ2 certainly thinks so. Steve Burt, the founder and CEO of EQ2, is a former economist having worked at senior levels with Dun & Bradstreet and British Petroleum. His approach, which he calls Granular Resource Economics (GRE), enables companies to quickly see at…
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/19/2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: World’s top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates | Environment | The Guardian Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment…
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New version of Eye on Earth site – more data, less visible!
Photo credit Tom Raftery We last wrote about the Eye on Earth site in July 2008. If you can’t remember that far back, a quick recap – Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) signed a non-exclusive five year deal with a goal to “make environmental information more accessible to citizens in Europe”. EyeOnEarth, the…