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Musings of a Microsoft Technologist with an environmental bent.....

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May 2009 - Posts

Will the Cloud help with global GHG emissions?
I certainly see Cloud Computing as a key enabler to reducing total carbon emissions as companies move from on premise to cloud based computing ostensibly to reduce cost. This of course relies on the provider being more efficient overall and preferably Read More...
Business Leaders Outline Six Steps for Ambitious Global Climate Treaty
Business leaders today issued "The Copenhagen Call" at the close of the World Business Summit on Climate Change. Here is the statement delivered to Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and UNFCCC chief Yvo de Boer to take forward into Read More...
Microsoft signs EU Code of Conduct for data centers and targets PUE of less than 1.2
Reposted from DataCenter Dynamics article Microsoft has signed up as a participant and an endorser of the EU code of conduct for data center efficiency. To date the company is one of the largest data center operators to sign as a participant in the Code. Read More...
Government rules threaten renewable investments
  Recently, in an open letter from the Aldersgate Group to Joan Ruddock, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, a coalition of 55 leading UK business and third sector organisations claim that the current regulatory Read More...
Environmental Sustainability in Microsoft UK
Here in Microsoft UK our Environmental Management team have been spending the past year getting a handle on our environmental footprint and putting in place a program to reduce our environmental impact. Here are some of the achievements so far …………with Read More...
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