Computerworld UK "Green Monk"

Ford's thinking on electric vehicles

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Recently I spoke with Greg Frenette, the manager of Ford’s Electric Vehicle program and he filled me in on just how long Ford have been working on electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid technologies.

Greenpeace's carrot for HP: The fine art of lobbying

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:46:00 GMT

Its been an exceedingly good couple of weeks for HP in terms of its sustainability reputation.

The Electricity 2.0 revolution has begun

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:36:00 GMT

This is a map of current smart meter/smart grid projects globally overlaid on Google maps. Screenshot credit Me(!)

Reflections on Logica's analyst day

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:08:00 GMT

I attended a Logica Analyst briefing earlier this week in Logica’s recently opened International Utilities Competence Center (pictured above).

Reflections on Logica's analyst dar

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:08:00 GMT

I attended a Logica Analyst briefing earlier this week in Logica’s recently opened International Utilities Competence Center (pictured above).

What price carbon emissions?

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:14:00 GMT

One of the reasons we are facing a climate crisis is because people have not been paying the full economic price for their carbon consumption. Had they been, we’d be living in a very different world today. A quick comparison of average car fuel efficiency in the US versus the EU (where fuel has typically been priced at 2-3x the US price) bears this out.

What price carbon emmissions?

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:14:00 GMT

Falling more in love with Wal-Mart: On textiles and bamboo

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:12:00 GMT

Weird, huh? I just followed a tweet from sustainable marketing uber-maven Don Carli to find out more about the Wal-Mart sustainable textiles network. I can’t think of any other single organisation driving so fast to more sustainable business outcomes, and quite honestly, I would never have suspected Wal-Mart would be making the moves it is.

How many countries does it take to change a light bulb?

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:34:00 GMT

Well, the EU thinks it takes 27 countries to change the light bulb. And they may well be right.

Mobile phones -- distributed air quality sensor network?

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:16:00 GMT

Since giving my talk on sustainability in the mobile phone sector at Mobile 2.0 in Barcelona a few weeks back and writing my post about how Augmented Reality on mobiles could be transformative for Green tech I have been thinking a lot about how mobiles could make a significant positive contribution to the planet.

RealtimeCarbon.org gives realtime CO2 intensity of electricity generation in the UK

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:33:00 GMT

If you actively select for cheaper electricity, you are de facto selecting for greener electricity because cheaper electricity has a higher % of renewable energy in the mix.

The lowdown on carbon offsets

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:40:00 GMT

The idea behind “offsetting” carbon emissions is that, while you are emitting some carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as a result of your activities, you can counterbalance these emissions by contributing to a project somewhere else that will reduce emissions.

European Future Energy Forum - great show, poor turnout?

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:27:00 GMT

The European Future Energy Forum was held last week in Bilbao. The event is sponsored by the likes of Masdar, Iberdrola Renovables, Siemens and Gamesa with support from the local Basque government and Ente Vasco de la Energia.

Enough of the half-measures

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:17:00 GMT

I’m worried. I’m very worried.

Rethinking B2C: Business to (Carbon) Consumer

Tue, 19 May 2009 11:12:00 GMT

I was thinking about the term business to consumer (B2C) the other day. I am not a huge fan of the term “consumer” in the digital era- we’re all content creators after all.

Paper reduction - green and sexy

Fri, 01 May 2009 12:42:00 GMT

Paper reduction is just not a sexy topic. Virtualising your servers, making your building more energy efficient, or using TelePresence to reduce your carbon footprint - these are big, exciting, engineering projects. How can you compete with that?

Beam me up Scotty!

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:46:00 GMT

The WWF published a report, funded by HP and Microsoft, about the potential climactic benefits of a greater adoption of videoconferencing technologies. One of the items in the report which caught my eye was the stat that:

HP Claims Greenpeace critique unfair

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:08:00 GMT

The other day after reading this I noted that according to the latest Greenpeace Guide Into Greener Electronics two my clients, HP and Dell were “backsliding” on environmental commitments.

SAP's Peter Graf discusses his role - Chief Sustainability Officer

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:21:00 GMT

ERP software maker SAP is, according to Wikipedia, the world’s 4th largest software co. in the world (presumably after Google, Microsoft and Oracle).

Energy-efficiency-in-the-enterprise: Chris O'Connor's Pulse keynote

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:38:00 GMT

Chris O'Connor is vice president of Strategy and Market Management for the Tivoli brand within IBM Software Group.

Jonathan Gay, CTO Greenbox, talks home energy management

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:44:00 GMT

With Google's announcement of their PowerMeter, home energy management solutions are really going mainstream.

Grid 2.0 primer

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:55:00 GMT

I'm giving a talk at the O'Reilly ETech conference in San Jose next month (March 11th 2009). The title of my talk is "Electricity 2.0: Applying The Lessons Of The Web To Our Energy Networks".

Sustainability & the role of IT

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:23:00 GMT

Rich Lechner is IBM's VP for Energy and Environment. He gave this presentation at the Pulse 2009 conference last week. I thought it was so good I asked him for a copy to put up on SlideShare - he very graciously agreed, so here it is.

IBM's Rich Lechner on energy, sustainability and the Smart Planet

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:08:00 GMT

One of the people I met at the IBM Pulse 09 event was Rich Lechner. Rich is IBM's VP Energy & Environment.

IBM hits the Green ball out of the park!

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:32:00 GMT

I attended Pulse 2009, the IBM service management conference, in Las Vegas during the week.