General Colin Powell | City Arts & Lectures. On 2012 August 12 KQED broadcast a 2012 June 7 City Arts & Lectures conversation with General Colin Powell in part discussing his new book It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership. It was an engrossing conversation which unfortunately is not available as a podcast or…
Category: Sustainability
Content related to social, environmental, and financial sustainability – including CSR (corporate social responsibility), green economy, and sustainable cloud.
Crop Solutions
Bayer to buy biopesticide maker AgraQuest for $425 million. – 2012 July 6 Perhaps Bayer CropScience represents the supply-side of the middle ground for agriculture: green greens.
My Parks
Penelope Gordon’s My Parks Pinterest board I encourage everyone to create a ‘My Parks’ list – whether on a social media site such as Pinterest or Facebook or on a piece of paper – and to share that list. Include those parks which you look forward to visiting – your parks ‘bucket list’. This is…
IBM and CSR
Giving Time, Talent and Expertise | Citizen IBM Blog. – 2012 July 2 Teasers and highlight video for IBM’s 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report. Also includes an introduction video by Stanley S. Litow. Are sustainability considerations given equal weight with values of short-term shareholders, or are IBM’s CSR activities merely a patina?
Data Center Localization
2012 Sep 25 InfoWorld article connecting big data centers to big pollution. Per the article most data centers waste 90% or more of the energy that they consume, and that their big generators are a big source of air pollution in locations such as Silicon Valley. I think that this bolsters the case for community…
Big Data Centers
EBay’s New Data Center Will Be Powered 100 Percent by Fuel Cells – Green Retail Decisions. – 2012 June 28 EBay is building a new data center in South Jordan, Utah that will be off-grid (with a backup connection to the local grid). The power source will be 30 natural-gas based fuel cells manufactured by…