Archive for May, 2007

A step towards Kyoto II?

15th 2007f May, 2007, Peter

According to the Guardian, the UK and Germany believe they are close to a deal between the US, China and India to linked regional carbon trading schemes.
“Tony Blair believes he is close to persuading George Bush to accept an ambitious plan to bring the world’s greatest polluters into international partnership to fight climate [...]

Climate change and Africa

14th 2007f May, 2007, Peter

The Economist has an article about climate change and global warming in Africa, and the African responses. The 1-sentence summary:
“Rich countries may be largely to blame for adding climate change to Africa’s litany of problems, but the continent’s own politicians have yet to take it seriously.”
Technorati Tags: climate change, global warming, Africa

Social networking for SMEs

9th 2007f May, 2007, Peter

The financial services company, Reuters, are currently trialling a social networking service aimed at linking small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with one another and with Reuters’ global network of journalists. The service is called Reuters Insight, and allows members to pose business questions to the network, and to make contacts. In our [...]

“Green is the new Black”

8th 2007f May, 2007, Peter

Well, that’s the view of the folks over at Wall Street and Technology, who have an article about the efforts of financial firms to reduce the amount they spend on electricity for their (typically ginormous) computer processing facilities. It seems that electricity is powering the information age, as well as having powered [...]

Our ISP is carbon-neutral

7th 2007f May, 2007, Peter

Our ISP, Dreamhost, based in Los Angeles, claims carbon-neutrality.
Technorati Tags: carbon-neutrality