Monthly Archives: March 2010
Sustainable Silicon Valley releases handy reference paper describing CSR frameworks
Last week, Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) posted a white paper that provides a handy reference guide for answering these questions. (White Paper on Sustainability Frameworks (Programs, Guidelines, Protocols, Registries)). It should be useful for any company that’s getting started with CSR, or that wishes to adapt its current initiatives to an accepted standard. Continue reading
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PricewaterhouseCoopers’s template for GHG reporting
Posted by John Stanley For those of you who wonder what a company’s annual public Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report might look like in the future, PricewaterhouseCooper’s has released a publicly available sample statement. The report, created for the fictitious global company … Continue reading
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UK CRC – Policy challenges in dealing with the critiques
Posted by John Stanley As I mentioned in a previous post, the concerns that the UK’s IT industry has raised over the CRC present several public policy challenges. In this post, I’ll make a few points about each of the critiques. … Continue reading
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UK Climate Legislation Alphabet Soup
Posted by John Stanley After my last post about the CRC developments in the UK, I realized that it might be helpful to provide a quick guide to the alphabet soup of acronyms that describe the UK’s climate change legislation. At … Continue reading
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Worries about flaws in the UK’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)
Posted by John Stanley The UK’s data center industry has shown great concern regarding its pending regulation under the government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation. Following a March 1 meeting by two major industry groups, the IT industry may instead … Continue reading
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Greening of IT – Closing the Communication Gap Between CIOs and CFO
Guest post by Deborah Grove On February 25, a crowd of 100 real estate executives gathered in Dallas, TX, to hear Ken Brill speak about the true cost of data center operations. The sponsors of the event, Jones Lang LaSalle, … Continue reading
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Should you replace old servers with efficient ones? Embodied energy vs use-phase energy
Posted by John Stanley Andy’s post above brings up an interesting point that’s being debated in the data center industry right now: Should you keep the servers you have as long as you can, so you can avoid the energy … Continue reading
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