Microsoft could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions with a few lines of computer code, need I say more?
[tags]MS, Microsoft, CO2, emisssions, kyoto, abatement[/tags]
Tag: Eco
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Wasted Energy
This [tag]short film[/tag], produced for Greenpeace, explains how our power infrastructure in the [tag]UK[/tag] wastes an enormous amount of [tag]energy[/tag].
I’m no eco-nut*, and wouldn’t usually support Greenpeace, but this is a noteworthy issue and ‘[tag]decentralised energy[/tag]‘ does appear to have considerable merit.It is 18 minutes long, but worth watching (or at least listening to while you browse elsewhere in another tab/window).
*- not that nutty anyway.
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Green Packaging
Sainsbury’s has started using fully compostable packaging for 500 of its products.
Sainsbury’s say that this will save 4010 thousand tonnes of [tag]fossil fuel[/tag] each year, with the added benefit of saving 3550 tonnes of plastic, an embarrasing amount of which would have gone to landfill.
Friend of the Earth were typically negative, saying (with an awful pun)
“Today’s announcement is a step in the right direction, but it has a long way to go before it can be viewed as a [tag]green[/tag] grocer.”
They’re right that there is more to be done, but people, and businesses, thrive on compliments not “it’s not good enough”s.