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The Global e-Sustainability Initiative, an information and communication technology (ICT) industry partnership, just released a new report that details how expanded use of ICT could cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 16.5% by 2020 and offset $1.9 trillion in gross energy and fuel costs. Unsurprisingly, the power and transportation sectors are found to have the highest potential for GHG emission reduction via greater ICT adoption.[read more]

When most talk climate policy, they talk mitigation: decrease our ever increasing flow of carbon into the atmospheric sewer. Another piece of the puzzle is adaptation. We are way past the point where mitigation alone will do. We know we’ll feel the consequences of global warming for years, decades, and centuries to come. That’s why we...[read more]

As you might know, I’m member of the environmental advisory body in my town. This is a rather active advisory board with 9 regular and 3 special meetings (board meetings excluded) in 2007. It shouldn’t be the intention of an advisory board to put an extra burden on something we want to protect by meeting. Therefore, I suggested that we...[read more]