Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

California Group Blames Immigrants for Climate Change

2009-11-10T19:23:12Z

California anti-immigration group has created a multimedia ad campaign blaming immigrants for climate change and environmental degradation in California. Californians for Population Stabilization, or CAP, argues that immigrants, legal and illegal, increase their carbon footprint four-fold when they move to the US and “Americanize” their consumption habits, thus exacerbating climate problems. Listen to the radio ad [...]

Public Produce: Filling the Sidewalks with Fruit Trees

2009-11-10T06:14:37Z

This review is part of the Green Books campaign. Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. This campaign is organized by Eco-Libris, a green company working to green up the book industry by promoting the adoption of green practices, balancing out books by planting trees, and supporting green books. A full list [...]

Climate Change: The Cost of Inaction Continues to Rise

2009-11-10T17:24:38Z

For those who oppose any kind of meaningful action on global climate change, consider the latest findings on the cost of inaction. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the world will have to spend an extra $500 billion to cut carbon emissions for each year it delays implementing serious action on global warming. This [...]

Data Center Pulse: Finding Green Solutions for Energy-Guzzling Servers and Cooling Systems

2009-11-10T04:29:17Z

Think of it as a support group for data center gurus. Better yet, think of it as a support group on steroids for data center gurus. Data Center Pulse (DCP) is a non-profit, open source community where data center end users can share information, voice opinions, define innovative next-generation solutions, and ultimately influence activities and trends in [...]

Opening Up Fort Knox: Looking for Transparency to Foster Data Center Innovation

2009-11-10T06:08:07Z

By David Zwerin, Sustainability Marketing Consultant While researching the sustainability of data centers, I became frustrated with the lack of corporate transparency around the environmental impacts associated with their data centers. Many companies talk about how efficient their data centers are, but stop short at providing hard facts, data, and relevant numbers to authenticate their story. Data [...]

What it Takes to Power the Internet: Quantifying Our Online Obsession

2009-11-10T06:10:53Z

US Infrastructure ran an article last month about how much energy we use to power the Internet. The above is an in interesting representation of what that power consumptions looks like. From updating our Facebook profiles to reading the news to watching last night’s sitcoms, the Internet has subsumed nearly every aspect of our lives. And [...]

The End of Corporate Climate Change Denial?

2009-11-10T15:19:55Z

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said this summer it would like to put climate change on a “Scopes trial.” However, the end of climate change denial is over, at least when it comes to the majority of large U.S. corporations. Three-quarters of the executives interviewed for a McGraw Hill study commissioned by Siemens Building Technology [...]

Change – Using a Carrot Not a Stick

2009-11-10T15:27:09Z

Can fun make people exercise more? Can fun make people recycle more? Can fun improve safety? Won’t it be fun to find out? Now through December 15 TheFunTheory.com is sponsoring a contest to prove the concept that fun is the best way to change peoples’ behavior for the better. The [...]

Net Impact Conference 2009 – Getting the Most Out Attending a Conference

2009-11-10T05:49:29Z

The 2009 Net Impact conference at Cornell is just around the corner. So many choices – 120+ sessions, keynotes, expo center, cocktail receptions, and networking opportunities. The choices can overwhelming. Two days can seem like a lot of time, but it will fly by and you don’t want to be left wondering [...]

Business Not As Usual: Astroturfing Follows Congressional Lead, And More

2009-11-09T22:57:12Z

US corporate-funded astroturfing continues, like a game of whack-a-mole. Expose one of these vampire moles to the light and another one pops up in a different sector. A uniquely American enterprise, the common thread which seems to tie all astroturfing together is Congress. Threaten Federal legislation and up comes a bloody gopher. Have a look [...]

3p’s Data Center Week: Creating a Context for Green IT

2009-11-10T15:30:59Z

For many of us, the data center is something we all know exists; and as we have been reading more and more, it is something that needs “greening” to improve large corporations’ environmental footprints. Yet, aside from the select few that work and think about data centers on a day-to-day basis, the majority of the public, [...]

Enterprise Sustainability and Greening Data Centers

2009-11-09T05:05:23Z

By Dr. Zen Kishimoto, Principal Analyst, Alta Terra Research Network Some years ago, energy was cheap. Few people in corporations paid attention to how much energy was consumed company wide, much less in data centers. More recently, however, several factors have changed this scene completely. These factors included much higher demands for computing and storage [...]

Data Centers as Information Factories

2009-11-09T05:01:25Z

By Dave Ohara, Data Center Consultant and Publisher of GreenM3.com I have been writing on the Green Data Center topic for more than two years. After more than 1,000 blog posts, one of the things that I have found is the name “data center” doesn’t mean what most people who don’t work on them think they [...]

Overheard at Opportunity Green: LA Having “Serious Conversation” About Feed-in Tariff

2009-11-09T04:49:36Z

Los Angeles Deputy Mayor for Energy and the Environment Romel Pascual said during a panel discussion at Opportunity Green 2009 that Los Angeles has begun a “serious conversation” about a feed-in tariff for the city. Feed-in tariffs, or FiTs, provide cash rebates for renewable energy fed into the grid — above the normal cost of [...]