Friday Green Numbers round-up for Feb 18th 2011
And here is a round-up of this week’s Green numbers… How La Poste Saves $7 Million a Year In IT Energy Costs France’s La Poste manages 180,000 PCs that sat mostly idle, yet still used as much electricity as if they were fully engaged in a difficult computing problem. “The AVOB solution does what other [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up for Feb 4th 2011
And here is a round-up of this week’s Green numbers… Europe’s Energy Member States of the European Union have agreed on targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by cutting energy consumption by 20% and increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix to 20% by 2020. The ‘Europe’s Energy’ project gives users a [...]
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 [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/30/2010
Photo credit Lauren Manning And here are this week’s Green Numbers: GE: Good citizen, but where’s the payoff? Inside GE, Ecomagination is deemed a success, so much so that it has spawned a sister initiative (if you can spawn a sister) called Healthymagination, focused on profitably creating better health for more people. GE says that [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/09/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: Obama commits nearly $2 billion to solar companies President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs tags: obama solar power [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/25/2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here is this week’s Green numbers: Six Infrastructure Projects to Save 1.3 Billion Gallons of Water in Australia Australia is no stranger to tight water supplies, and fortunately that means smart water conservation strategies are being devised all the time. Australia is leading the way in everything from strategies [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/18/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: BP oil spill costs hit $1.6bn | Business The cost of BP’s clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico has now hit $1.6bn (£1.1bn), but the final cost of the huge oil spill remains unquantifiable. tags: oilspill, bp, cleanup, clean-up, Gulf of Mexico, greennumbers Money trumps security in [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/04/2010
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And here is this week’s Green numbers:
Matt Simmons on Dylan Ratigan says There’s another leak much bigger 5 to 6 miles away
Matt Simmons on Dylan Ratigan “There’s another leak much bigger 5 to 6 miles away”
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Co-op vetoes £100m of ‘unethical’ business – Business News, [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 05/28/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: Infographic: Gulf oil spill by the numbers Amazing infographic of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill – puts it into perspective. tags: Gulf of Mexico, oilspill, bp, greennumbers Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before. [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 05/07/2010
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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 those of its [...]
