by Simon Mingay | April 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
A combination of the recession, continued focus on productivity, organizational and individual responses to climate change, changing demographics in the workplace, changing views on the acceptability of “junkets” or jollies, and Icelandic volcanoes, have created a significant change in attitudes towards business travel. I’d hesitate to talk about the “perfect storm” at this stage, but [...]
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by Simon Mingay | April 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Earth Day is upon us again, an opportunity to pause and reflect on where the IT industry is. On the whole I’m very optimistic and boy have we come a long way in the last 5 years, particularly relative to other industry sectors. 2005 was when I started actively covering how climate change and sustainability [...]
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by Simon Mingay | April 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Last week IBM announced (http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2010/04/smarter-sustainabilityold.html) that it was requiring all its’ supplier to put in place an environmental management system (EMS). Here’s what they are asking suppliers to do :- We’re asking them to establish voluntary environmental goals and measure performance for at least three topics applicable to virtually all businesses: energy conservation, greenhouse gas [...]
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by Simon Mingay | April 19, 2010 | Comments Off
This news item from the BBC related to the UK’s global water front caught my eye this morning. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8628832.stm Water footprints are different to carbon footprints for a number of reasons. With carbon/GHG emissions it’s the balance between carbon input vs that output in a process/cycle, and a tonne of carbon produced in the UK [...]
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by Simon Mingay | April 16, 2010 | Comments Off
There is a good business continuity story here of course. But also an interesting sustainability perspective (I’ve always said the cloud would be good for sustainability). ICT remote collaboration tools will never replace travel, but it can certainly reduce the need for it significantly. You can be sure that a lot of those people grounded and [...]
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by Simon Mingay | April 6, 2010 | 2 Comments
As a number of blogs and articles have observed the recent report from Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/make-it-green-cloud-computing.pdf has some technical flaws. The main issue for me, is that they seem to conflate “the cloud” and “the internet” and “information technology”, and then don’t really address the potential environmental benefits of real cloud computing. If they had simply [...]
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