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Posted by David Tebbutt on 2nd June 2008.
With rocketing fuel prices, our minds are all being focused on what we can do to shrink our energy bills. Some look to the government to solve the problem, through lower duties or investment in indigenous power sources. But the government has its own money problems, which I won’t go into here, for fear of [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 18th May 2008.
Over the past few months, I’ve seen quite a number of videoconferencing systems, ranging from the desktop to huge room-sized affairs. The room-sized are probably beyond the remit of this blog. And I’ve written about some of the desktop ones before. I’m hoping to write about a new one very soon which, frankly, blows the [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 5th May 2008.
Are you assaulted daily by people claiming to make you greener? Do you listen?
I must confess that I get irritated by many of them because they’re using my guilt to stuff their pockets with money. And, very often, what they’re offering as a ‘cure’ to CO2 emissions or pollution actually turn out to be emitters [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 7th April 2008.
We received a survey last week which was embargoed to yesterday. “Strange”, I thought, “to have a Sunday embargo on something.” On reading the survey, Behind the Wheel II from the Energy Saving Trust, the penny dropped. It’s the start of a new tax year and the content of the survey - about cars and [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 17th March 2008.
Last week the free Metro newspaper carried a front-page chart of carbon emissions by country. It looked like a chance to take a pop at the Chinese and the Americans who top the league of polluters by pumping out around four times as much CO2 as their nearest ‘competitor’ in these dismal stakes, Russia.
It occurred [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 11th February 2008.
Last September, I wrote about web-hosting company Strato and its green credentials. Just before I went on hols (very nice thank you), our beloved leader, Alex, tipped me off about Rackspace, an IT-hosting company which is also busy turning itself green.
So I rummaged.
Strato is based in Germany where it has access to hydroelectric power [...]
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