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BlogsTags > environmentWhy ebooks & why green e-publishing?By Deborah EminMay 2, 2013 Perhaps you’ve also wondered why the publishing industry produces and distributes all the major climate science information available but doesn’t read it. If it did, publishing could become the standard bearer for global reduction of carbon footprints. This business challenge … Four short links: 28 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 28, 2013 Myth of the Free Internet (The Atlantic) — equity of access is an important issue, but this good point is marred by hanging it off the problematic (beer? speech? downloads?) “free”. I’m on the council of InternetNZ whose mission is … Four short links: 22 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 22, 2012 Minecraft Experiment Devolves into Devastating Resource War — life imitates art, but artificial life imitates, well, Haiti. Finding Unity in the Math Wars — I recently heard a quote about constructive dialog: “Don’t argue the exact point a person made. … Four short links: 17 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 17, 2012 Penguins Counted From Space (Reuters) -- I love the unintended flow-on effects of technological progress. Nobody funded satellites because they'd help us get an accurate picture of wildlife in the Antarctic, but yet here we are. The street finds a use ... What Makes a Super-Spreader? -- A super-spreader is a person who transmits an infection to a significantly... Four short links: 3 August 2011
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 3, 2011 Just Say No To Freegal -- an interesting view from the inside, speaking out against a music licensing system called Freegal which is selling to libraries. Libraries typically buy one copy of something, and then lend it out to multiple users sequentially, in order to get a good return on investment. Participating in a product like Freegal means that... Sustainable publishing is a mindset, not a formatBy Jenn WebbJuly 15, 2011 Dennis Stovall, director of the Publishing Program at Portland State University, discusses the state of sustainable publishing and who's doing it right. Sustainable publishing is a mindset, not a format July 15, 2011 Dennis Stovall, director of the Publishing Program at Portland State University, discusses the state of sustainable publishing and who's doing it right. The smart grid data delugeBy Ciara ByrneJune 22, 2011 The smart grid is an information revolution for utilities, and the first line of the information the grid uses will come from smart meters. EMeter's Aaron DeYonker discusses meter use and data applications in this interview. The smart grid data deluge June 22, 2011 The smart grid is an information revolution for utilities, and the first line of the information the grid uses will come from smart meters. EMeter's Aaron DeYonker discusses meter use and data applications in this interview. Can we capture all the world's carbon emissions? May 20, 2011 Capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has major challenges, but it can be done at a price that would not destroy our economy. Doing so would give us more time to find ways to switch to inherently zero-carbon methods of powering our civilization. The Moore's Law of solar energy April 19, 2011 If humanity could capture one tenth of one percent of the solar energy striking the Earth, we would have access to 6X as much energy as we consume in all forms today, with almost no greenhouse gas emissions. Industrial ecology and big data
By Michael FerrariMarch 10, 2011 Because companies are tracking their inputs and byproducts carefully, there has been an exponential increase in the amout of efficiency/environmental data available for primary stakeholders and investors. The Watering Hole - Batteries BETTER Be Included 
By James TurnerFebruary 8, 2011 EE 101 pop quiz question of the day: Can you replace 10,000 AA batteries in less time than it takes to recharge one of the new EVs off a 120V outlet? Four short links: 24 December 2010
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 24, 2010 Holiday Carbon Offsets -- buy carbon offsets against Santa's trip, a stockingful of coal, or this year's Reindeer Games. (via Val Aurora on Twitter) Sad Story of the Snowman -- the best use of Internationalized Domain Names yet. Katie, Starwars Geek (CNN) -- best use of the Internet this year. Everything The Internet Knows About Me Because I Asked... The Watering Hole - Not My Problem...
By James TurnerOctober 1, 2010 The day that Ted Kennedy announced his opposition to the Cape Wind project because it spoiled the view of Cape Cod, I officially declared a pox on both (Democratic and Republican) their houses. There are no good guys, only competing special interests. Who, me, cynical? Sensor networks and the future of forecasting
By Michael FerrariSeptember 8, 2010 Identifying extreme weather patterns can minimize impact when that weather arrives. But to improve long-range forecasts, we'll need to create environmental sensor networks out of phones, satellites and other technology. How ICT Can Improve the Environmental Performance of Educational Institutions
By Sarah SorensenJuly 14, 2010 I would like to talk about some of the ways in which schools are driving the use of technology to improve the environmental performance of their institutions... Four short links: 1 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 1, 2010 Conflict Minerals and Blood Tech (Joey Devilla) -- electronic components have a human and environmental cost. I remember Saul Griffith asking me, "do you want to kill gorillas or dolphins?" for one component. Now we can add child militias and horrific rape to the list. (via Simon Willison) Meteor -- an open source HTTP server that serves streaming data... The Network Continues to Support Sustainability
By Sarah SorensenMay 26, 2010 The use of ICT to tackle climate issues is growing in sophistication, as well as the methods for tracking and measuring their effectiveness... The Watering Hole - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
By James TurnerMay 22, 2010 Haven't we learned anything from Japanese monster movies, folks? Four short links: 4 September 2009
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 3, 2009 Flood Maps -- what the world will look like when the oceans rise. Interactive, so you can dial up your preferred level of environmental horror. (via Hans Nowak) Citability -- making government accessible, reliable, and transparent with advanced permalinks, as Government websites are ever changing and cannot be cited. Content changes without notice or accountability. Bootstrapping EC2 Images as... Greener typesetting
By Rick JelliffeMay 3, 2009 Consider that there may be one hundred million word processing documents printed every day (anyone know the real number?) That could mean a million extra pages per day generated because of page-profligate settings or algorithms. Now, paper is usually made from estate timber, so there probably is no SAVE THE TREES deforestation angle. But paper production takes energy, toxic bleaches are used, power is used to make it, fuel is used to transport it, if it is disposed by burning the carbon gets released, and more toner cartridges are used. A tiny effect for individuals, but a decent effect when aggregated. So can we green typesetting? Can word processing standards lead the way here? Four short links: 27 Mar 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 27, 2009 Design, Perl, Heresy, and Ephemera: Product Panic: 2009 -- Bruce Sterling essay on design for recession-panicked consumers. As is usual with Bruce, I can't tell whether he's wryly tongue-in-cheek or literally advocating what he says. Great panic products are like Roosevelt’s fireside chats. They’re cheery bluff. The standard virtues of fine industrial design—safety, convenience, serviceability, utility, solid construction … well,... Four short links: 26 Mar 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 26, 2009 Books, Money, Collective Despair, and a Dashboard of Doom: Will The Real iPod For Reading Please Stand Up -- Sebastian Mary argues eloquently that we're too focused on long-term writing because of the requirements and constraints imposed upon us by a mass-market paper book, whereas text online is basically an experiment in different lengths and sizes to find new balances... ETech: Priorities for a Greener World: If You Could Design Anything, What Should You Do?
By Robert KayeMarch 11, 2009 The second session today I'd like to share with you was presented by a personal friend of mine, Jeremy Faludi. Jer started his session entitled "Priorities for a Greener World: If You Could Design Anything, What Should You Do?" by pointing out that if we want to change the world, we ought to know what the most important issues... Four short links: 11.5 Feb 2009
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 11, 2009 This second Feb 11 post was brought to you by the intersection of timezones and technology. If there's a third Feb 11 post, I'm changing my name to Bill Murray. Hacking the Earth -- an environmental futurist looks at "geoengineering", deliberately interfering with the Earth's systems to terraform the planet. Radical solution to global warming, unwise hubris and immoral act... Four short links: 4 Feb 2009
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 4, 2009 Data, climate change, and location: Details on Yahoo's Distributed Database (Greg Linden) -- summary of Yahoo!'s PNUTS, "a massively parallel and geographically distributed database system for Yahoo!'s web applications." Greg keeps up with the papers from the search engine companies, and the insights he offers are great. For example, "Second, as figures 3 and 4 show, the average latency of... Help! The Polar Bears Have Fallen Down the Well!
By James TurnerNovember 24, 2008 This is an essay about human nature, and the way that the global warming (or global climate change) problem is encountering a "perfect storm" of human shortcomings. It is unabashedly an advocacy piece, and I'm equally unabashed in my support... What good is collective intelligence if it doesn't make us smarter?
By Tim O'ReillyJuly 7, 2008 Two stories I read yesterday morning are worth sharing. The first, an editorial by science-fiction writer Robert Silverberg, was entitled The Death of Gallium, a meditation on the increasing scarcity of valuable elements like gallium, used in flat panel TVs and computer displays, which is estimated to be used up by 2017. Other less rare but equally important minerals are... 1 to 29 of 29 Stay Connected
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