Global Warming
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Winning war won't secure peace for open source
Insight perspective Opposition to free software may have evaporated, but that does not make behavioral change inevitable, says U.K. open source advocate.
Tags: Open source, Business applications, Operating systems, Conference, Open-source Software, health service, Europe, Voice, Global Warming, British Broadcasting Corp.
Humans fiddle while the planet heats up
Insight Author of a report on global warming, Stanford scientist Terry Root pulls no punches about what she says is happening before our eyes.
Tags: Power supplies, surge suppression
Google mapping spec now an industry standard
News KML, a Google language to describe map data, is now an industry standard. Let a thousand online map flowers bloom?
Tags: XML
US House of Representatives OKs climate bill
News The bill's cap on greenhouse gases, along with a renewable electricity mandate and Clean Energy Bank, is designed to promote clean energy technologies.
Tags: Green IT, Cap, Allowance, Carbon Emission, Geothermal Energy, Renewable Energy, greenhouse gas, Global Warming, pollution, power generation
Emissions cuts can tame global warming
News A supercomputer simulation by the National Center for Atmospheric Research shows best- and worst-case scenarios of the world climate in the year 2100.
Tags: Green IT, Department Of Energy, Carbon Emission, Asia, greenhouse gas emission, Emission, NCAR, Australia, computer, greenhouse gas
Nanotech to solve global warming by 2028
News World's dependency on fossil fuels will end, as nanotech will enable renewable sources such as solar to fully meet global energy needs by 2028, says inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.
Tags: Nanotechnology, Green IT, Nanotechnology, Geothermal Energy, solar panel, London, Global Warming, Silicon.com, Earth, exclusive interview
Google.org exec leaves to tackle urgent threats
News Dr. Larry Brilliant is leaving the search giant's nonprofit arm for the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund to tackle nuclear proliferation, water shortages, and other issues.
Tags: Human resources, Inconvenient Truth, Google Inc., Officer, University of Michigan, Al Gore, Global Warming, Middle East, exec, advisor
Navigating, dieting your way to greener pastures
Blogs Drive by GPS, think green every day and eat grass. Odd as it may sound, these seem to be the messages that came out of E...
Steve Jobs on the greening of Apple
News In one of his first post-leave interviews, Apple CEO Jobs says the impact of products, not the emissions of factories, is what counts, and that it's time to focus on a company's results, not its lofty goals.
Tags: Green IT, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Supplier, Carbon Footprint, energy efficiency, hiring, Dell Computer Corp., PC, Steve Jobs
Execs reveal why newspapers don't block Google
News Forbes.com CEO rips Google but tells CNET it needs search engine to stay competitive. Former Washington Post editor says time to play by Google's rules.
Tags: Web sites, Digital media, Google Inc., Washington Post Co., Search Engine, Forbes, Advertisement, Digital media, Associated Press, exec
IT vendors to profit from stricter green standards
News Tech vendors stand to make billions as companies increasingly need to measure their environmental impact, claims S2 Intelligence.
Tags: Green IT
Green IT in a developing country
Blogs On the day a UN-sponsored summit on global warming opened in the island of Bali in Indonesia, a much smaller gathering o...
Global warming, not asteroid, cause of extinction?
News Mass death 250 million years ago may have been caused not by an asteroid, but by warmer temperatures and lower oxygen levels.
GE chief: All engines go for alternative energy
News GE chief Jeffrey Immelt sees energy prices staying high, fueling a surge in new tech and sound investments.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, Business plans, Regulations
Consider green project management for your projects
Techguide The model requires project managers to think green throughout their project and make decisions that take into account the possible impact on the environment.
Tags: Project management, Green IT
