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There’s an interesting opinion piece by John Tierney in today’s New York Times, on the eve of Earth Day, that suggests that the wealthier we become the greener we become. He suggests that there’s a natural progression to cleaner energy sources as we move to more urban settings, and that forests begin to reclaim farmland [...]
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A recent survey found that one in three U.S. business leaders believe that their environmental strategies won’t be affected by the current state of the economy, and more than half feel that IT products will help them to be more green. The survey conducted by Zogby International for Cisco also found that more than 60 [...]
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The GlobalSoilMap.net launches today at a ceremony at The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Jeffrey Sachs, noted economist and Director of the institute will be on hand, as will Pedro Sanchez, director of the Africa Soil Information System. This global system fills a need for accurate, up-to-date and spatially referenced soil information, and was made [...]
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Microsoft unveiled the Environmental Sustainability Dashboard (ESD) for its Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP package,responding to demand for greater visibility into their energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Others in the enterprise computing space are also adding such capabilities (including Cisco and Ilog). Microsoft’s add-on available at no cost to companies running Dynamics AX 2009. [...]
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Last week Autodesk launched their 2010 software product line via webcast, a move touted as fiscally and environmentally responsible, with technology touted as the solution to these trying and uncertain times. The new capabilities that will available in the late March timeframe have been designed to give customers an increase in productivity, creativity and performance. [...]
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CNN Money.com has a good breakdown of the economic stimulus plan, pulling out and parsing $100 Billion slated for green measures. Among the planned spending is $11B for an updated electric grid, $28B for energy conservation, $28B for renewable energy subsidies, $14B for environmental improvement, $13B for mass transit and $13B for energy R&D. Read [...]
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ESRI has just released a new e-Book in their GIS Best Practices series titled, GIS is a Green Technology. The 50-page publication contains a number of previously published case studies that illustrate how GIS is being applied to environmental and sustainability issues. The stories included in this e-book detail GIS-based applications for innovative, sustainable solutions [...]
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The New York Times has a feature and graphic that point to a geographic divide over energy policy. Those most eager to regulate emissions are from the east and west coasts of the United States, while the middle of the country relies heavily on manufacturing jobs, which are powered by the heavy emissions of coal. [...]
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Obama’s energy secretary nominee Steven Chu called a nationwide grid to bring renewable energy online as a project of “national interest.” Today’s multiple grids make it impossible to transmit power from west to east, limiting the national benefits of large wind and solar facilities planned for the western half of the country. The need for [...]
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Alexis Madrigal of the Inventing Green blog is undertaking an interesting project to compile the history of green technologies in America, and to map these on a Google Maps mashup called the Green Tech Map. While the effort is just getting underway, Madrigal is hard at work on a book about this history of green [...]
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