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Willard’s 5 stages
Bob Willard identifies five stages of an organisations adoption of sustainability. I think these are very useful – it helps give context to problems and decisions. I’m re-looking at the skip and the Green RFP, wondering where my profession and organisations fit on this continuum. To skip to the bottom, it may be presumptuous to […]
Peak computing?
June 13, 2007
While others focus on prominent issues – peak oil and carbon are particularly obvious right now – we try to stick to a wider interpretation of sustainability. My eyes pricked up then when people starting writing about “peak everything“. This graphic is from a New Scientist article by Armin Reller (University of Augsburg in Germany) […]
Posted in: CfS-TheBad
Computing ecolabels
June 12, 2007
A story about a new ecolabel for a budget UK airline caught my eye this week. I like the graphics but also the multifactor approach (they haven’t tried to reduce complex issues down to a single green tick). A scheme that gives aircraft ‘eco-labels’ showing how much noise they make and how much carbon dioxide […]
Posted in: ecoLabel, Green computing RFP
Green computing charter – edging closer to a green RFP
June 8, 2007
Continuing the search for a Green computing RFP, Colin Boswell from IRBS points us to the Green Computing Charter. The charter is described as: a seven point charter designed to provide chief information officers (CIOs) and IT managers with environmental goals that can be applied to their business. Announced in August 2006, the charter has […]
Posted in: Green computing RFP
Sustainable Living Guide not much help for green computing RFP
June 5, 2007
In the search for a green RFP for computing I’ve been sent links to more guides to purchasing. Sustainable Business organisations have produced documents such as the Sustainable Living Guide This guide provides a simple classification for assessing products, features over 50 examples of sustainable products and services and provides an introductory list of products or […]
Posted in: Green computing RFP, NZ Computing
June 15, 2007
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