Footprint
The total impact of a server on the environment is not only defined by it's energy use when powered on. I could not dig up the source, but the production of a server took approx. 45% of the CO2...
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First of all 10% reduction is a pitifully small reduction target.Critical load (the powering of IT equipment) on average accounts for 50% or less of the power draw of the 200M sq ft of data centers in...
View Articledelusional
Oh for goodness sake. If the entire power consumption of every data centre in the USA, buildings, servers, lighting, cooling, lifts and self-flushing urinals, were replaced by spiritual power from the...
View ArticleI'm not sure I believe the numbers anyway
The ACM says 1.5% of American electricity goes to data centres. Think about that. Of all the steel mills, ethanol plants, factories, railroads, ports, warehouses, hospitals, shops, malls, supermarkets,...
View ArticleGoldratt was right: Local Optima vs Global Optima
The day after watching Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, I bounced into the office, determined to make a difference.I spent a few days (without my boss's permission) speaking to various people about the...
View ArticleDingbat thinking like Gore's
You will also reduce the lifetime of an electronic device by constantly turning it on and off. Electrical connections don't like cyclic expanding and contracting, and fan bearings don't like starting...
View ArticleSo we will go on and burn everything?
OK, so you do not believe in researching for solutions to our energy and resource over-use? So you do not believe in adapting your own behaviour? Your comment reads as if you like to say: Enjoy now,...
View ArticleA little ridicule might help
Even if global warming is anthropogenic (and the world has historically been much warmer than it currently is without human help and without causing a doomsday runaway greenhouse Earth), you can't...
View ArticleGreen IT for the right and wrong reasons...
If "going Green" actually demonstrates reduced energy costs (which I think some are 'skeptical' of)... If "going Green" actually pays credits in jurisdictions that have carbon credits... :) Then I am...
View Articlefleas
It's true the Earth would be relieved to see us go in the same way my dog is relieved to see his fleas go but a) I truly doubt our influence on the planet is as apocalyptic as many would have us...
View ArticleThat's a terrible attitude.
That's a terrible attitude. Akin to those who say "I'm only one person, I can't make a difference". If every industry tried to make a 0.4% difference, then we might actually make some improvement. So...
View Articlemoral judgement
I'd prefer you engaged me in rational debate rather than moral judgement, especially if YOU are going to accuse ME of being holier-than-thou. I rather think I'm being unholier-than-thou :)Perhaps you...
View ArticleBuying Yet More Stuff
You're right. I was fooled then, but can now see through the rampant green-washing.I quickly realised that buying new kit would simply be more of the same... which is why that idea quickly died....
View ArticleSchools should educate us in green and survival skills
Because some of my teachers at Grammar school were explorers and a bit 'out there' in that they shared real life experiences when discussing topics - I know some basic survival skills and will always...
View Articlethe top 10 things you can do to be green
Demand more nuclear power plants, worldwideBecome vegetarianDon't buy cottonBuy more goods made in developing nationsOutsource jobs to developing nationsDemand that religious leaders preach birth...
View ArticleVegetarian...?
LOL- good list...But:I can't agree with Point 2. You are eating trees and plants when you are vegetarian!! - Totally against a 'green' world! Probably, eat less - and if you have to, non-vegetarian!Vinod
View ArticleMeat is murdering the planet
One kilo of beef reportedly consumes six to sixteen kilos of grains and legumes. Modern lot-fed or battery-fed meat is extremely inefficient use of food resources, without even getting into land...
View ArticleAnd it comes from New Zealand
It is quite amazing that fresh lamb meat from New Zealand is cheaper (and better) than local product in Finland. We eat quite often New Zealand products.Aale
View ArticleExport the best
Yes when we lived in Melbourne we ate superb and often cheap NZ lamb too. Hard to get it here though :) And our kiwifruit are often mis-shapen and hard.As far as I know though, NZ lamb is still all...
View ArticleGreat supporting article
There's an interesting article by Zoyd Reece Luce of Risorgimento Management that highlights the need to focus on principles of sustainability when deciding what projects to focus on and when beginning...
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