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Archive for April 2009
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air
30 Apr 2009
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: News
Thanks to Urban Ziegler of RETScreen for putting me onto this fascinating book by David JC MacKay, a Physicist at Cambridge University. Sustainable Energy – without the hot air sets out to crunch the numbers on a potential sustainable energy future for the UK. You can download the entire book (in three sections) or a [...]
U.S. climate talks make progress … with some gaps
30 Apr 2009
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
U.S.-hosted climate talks with the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters concluded on Tuesday with signs of progress but sizable differences as nations work toward a deal this year to fight global warming, writes Reuters.
The two-day meeting, convened by U.S. President Barack Obama, was meant to pave the way for international talks in Copenhagen in December [...]
Clean energy search engine (reegle) launches a map of the green energy world
27 Apr 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: reegle
It’s done ) We re-launched reegle today with its brandnew design and the new clean energy map. I will keep my blog-post short and simple as there is so much to do at the moment (everyone who ever organised a launch of a product knows what I am talking about )
What’s new [...]
The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam – 17 million tons of CO2
22 Apr 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: News
A few days ago McAfee / ICF International released a report about “The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam“. The numbers shown in this report are amazing, the waste of electricity is frustrating and the impact of Spams on our climate (CO2 Emissions) is really frightening.
Let’s summarise the report:
About 62 trillion spam emails where sent in [...]
Worldwide Stimulus Packages – a huge investment in climate change themes
17 Apr 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: News
A huge amount of money is allocated by governments all over the world to stimulate the economy which represents a unique opportunity for green businesses. The question is: how much will governments spend in accelerating the shift from fossil energy to renewable energy and help to create a more energy efficient future?
HSBC Climate Change created [...]
A few days ago, google inveted to a “Efficient Data Center Summit” where leaders of the IT industry discussed best practices for data center efficiency. It was the first time, that google showed videos of their data centers and presented their ways to create the “world’s most efficienct data centers”. But (as you can imagine) [...]
FAO – PISCES Case Studies highlight livelihoods benefits of small scale bioenergy initiatives in developing countries
08 Apr 2009
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: News
This just in from REEEP Partner Organisation Eco Ltd, who are working with Practical Action to promote a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and PISCES (Policy Innovation Systems for Clean Energy Security), a five year Research Programme Consortium funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and co-ordinated by the [...]
€ 65 million for a more intelligent energy future in Europe
07 Apr 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: News
The EU Commission published last week the 2009 call for project proposals which contribute to a wider spread of energy efficiency practices and to a greater use of renewable energy sources under the Intelligent Energy – Europe funding programme. Overall € 65 million will be available to fund projects which can help deliver a cleaner, [...]
Energy Globe Award @ EU environment ministers meeting in Prague
01 Apr 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: Events
This year’s international Energy Globe television gala will serve as the opening event for the informal meeting of the EU environment ministers on 14 April 2009 in Prague.
Political VIPs from around the world will meet at the gala event in the realm of the Czech EU presidency: Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and EU [...]
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