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Sticks and Stones and Mining’s Sustainability Guidelines
It must be hard to represent the least sustainable of industries. The (US) National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) represents the extractive industries: NSSGA is the largest mining association by product volume in the world and represents the crushed stone, sand and gravel-or aggregate-industries. Our member companies produce more than 92 percent of the […]
Sustainability 101 in a nutshell?
July 29, 2007
The earth is a spaceship with limited resources governed by an intricate and fragile web of natural and human systems whereby actions should be backed by critical thinking and participatory decision making to avoid unintended consequences sometimes temporally and spatially removed from the origin. Jim Trauth (ThoughtLaggard) blogged this today: I collected up some […]
Report oozes bias but still 18% never turned off times 118 idle hours times power use times carbon (or money) times number of workers = a big number
July 29, 2007
A potentially interesting (and widely quoted) report disappoints with sloppy science and failure to recognise bias. The UK’s National Energy Foundation and 1E‘s survey of energy use by computing has some big numbers. The crux of the report is that if software systems were introduced to manage computer idle time (ie turn them off), then […]
Challenge: think outside the (pencil) box
July 26, 2007
I grew up in the UK in the 70s. David Sproxton’s Morph on Take Hart was my all time favourite (though only in summer, Mum’s aversion to having a television in the house only dissipated during Wimbledon, but I digress). So I’ve watched this about 17 times today. What a great way to promote Friends […]
10 kinds of people: Sustainable practitioners and the guzzlers
July 26, 2007
The world is made up of 10 kinds of people: those who are sustainable practitioners and those who aren’t (OK, old computing joke). Suggesting that there are only two groups is clearly far too simplistic, but we need to know where people are so that we can work with them for the better. The fourth […]
Computing for Sustainability 
July 30, 2007
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