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Why are Salesforce hiding the emissions of their cloud?
The lack of transparency from Cloud computing providers is something we have discussed many times on this blog – today we thought we’d highlight an example. Salesforce dedicates a significant portion of its site to Sustainability and on “Using cloud computing to benefit our environment”. They even have nice calculators and graphs of how Green…
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Friday Green Numbers round-up 09/03/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: 1.25 Gigawatts of Solar Thermal Power Approved in California in Past Two Days Will Double US Capacity “There’ve been multiple gigawatts of solar thermal power plants planned for various places in the California desert for some time, but finally some more of them are getting the approvals need…
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Gapminder.org's incredible data visualisation
One of the revelations for me of the Le Web 3 conference was hearing Prof. Hans Rosling‘s presentation. Everyone I spoke to mentioned his talk as being the highpoint of the event. I checked out Gapminder.org, the site he mentioned where you can access all the data he presented and it is incredible. The interactive…