Day Zero, You don’t really want to know this
Simply put, Day Zero is the day when the water runs out, the taps are dry, and city officials have to recon with how much violence zero water will inspire. Day Zero has already happened in places like Syria and Iran but at a city level, not for a whole country. The latest city to […]
Branson’s Learning Curve, Virgin Earth Challenge Part 2
This is the second in a four part series on the Virgin Earth Challenge (VEC) proposed by Richard Branson. Parts are excerpted from “The Age of Sustainability.” The Prize Sir Richard Branson and Al Gore at the VEC announcement. Some of the finalist ideas submitted in Richard Branson’s VEC, while interesting, do not appear to […]
Branson’s Learning Curve, Virgin Earth Challenge
This is the first of four posts in a series. Some Virgin companies Richard Branson is a self-described business newbie, a virgin, which reflects two things about him. First, he is often the first person into a category where there are no role models. Second, this means he typically improvises until he has a solution […]
White House admits climate change is our fault
Administration says uncle. Now can we turn to finding solutions? The New York Times reported that 13 federal agencies turned in a report that the White House approved which says that human activity is indeed the cause of global warming, climate change, or whatever you want to call it. The report says that over the […]
Cloud Computing: Google Apps cloud has a relatively high carbon intensity
I have been researching and publishing on Cloud Computing for quite some time here. Specifically, I’ve been highlighting how it is not possible to know if Cloud computing is truly sustainable because none of the significant Cloud providers are publishing sufficient data about their energy consumption, carbon emissions and water use. It is not enough […]
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, […]
