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GREENIE WATCH
Interesting..
Posted on 01/30/2008 11:39:00 AM PST by NormsRevenge
U.S. companies talk a lot about going green, but so far there hasn't been much of an impact on improving the environment, according to a report released today. In its first State of Green Business report, Oakland's Greenbiz.com acknowledges slow and inconsistent progress.
"Companies, in aggregate, aren't changing quickly or significantly enough to move the needle on climate change and other challenges," said Joel Makower, executive editor of the news-and-research Web site and the 64-page report's primary author.
The GreenBiz Index considered 20 indicators of environmental progress, ranging from carbon emissions to paper use to what kind of vehicles are found in corporate fleets. It said progress was being made in eight of the categories, but another 10 areas were seeing little or no progress, and two indicators were actually falling behind. It didn't survey Fortune 500 companies, Makower said, instead looking for macroeconomics trends. The results came from a variety of sources, and included some scales created by Greenbiz.com, such as measuring thousands of tons of packaging used per $1 billion dollars of gross domestic product (GDP).
Positive signs:
U.S. greenhouse gas intensity, measured as emissions as a percentage of GDP, is dropping, although actual emissions remain about the same.
Paper use, measured against GDP, declined 20 percent over the past decade, while recycling increased 20 percent over the same time period.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Some progress has been made since Chernobyl. Actually the USA water and air is a lot cleaner than it was when Nixon signed the EPA into existence. This trend is strong and wil continue regardless of alarmist greenies.
Translation: We used virtually no real data and just made up the entire report using invented data that ‘felt right.’
GreenBiz Index
a Greener World Media, Inc. production
http://www.greenbiz.com/
GWM’s mission is to provide clear, concise, accurate, and balanced information, resources, and learning opportunities to help companies of all sizes and sectors integrate environmental responsibility into their operations in a manner that supports profitable business practices.
“Companies, in aggregate, aren’t changing quickly or significantly enough to move the needle on climate change and other challenges,”
That’s because climate change is natural, dumba$$.
The I guess we will just have to force them to, won't we?
Socialist Eco-Nazis at work.
DOE: Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2006 were 1.5 percent below the 2005 total—the first annual drop since 2001 and only the third since 1990.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggrpt/
Ping
I wonder how the Mercury News did on the environmentally correct scale, especially with respect to paper consumption...?
The size of the daily has shrunk dramatically, I think they actually designed it to be a bit smaller.. , they still load the sunday edition up with too many darn ads tho.
We're putting "green" servers into our data center. We're looking to expand the capabilities of our DC without increasing the power requirements - so the lower powered servers are helping. The tradeoff is that they don't run anywhere near as fast as the "non environmentally friendly" ones. So - we've got a "mixed use" DC made up of slow "green" servers for non critical, low horsepower apps, and "non-PC" servers that burn a lot of electrons but run like a scalded dog. We're just cranking up the project, but less than a year in, so far it's been a mix that has worked exceptionally well for our business.
I get a kick out of IT shops that "vow" to be "100% green" in X amount of time. Why? What the heck would be the point? If it takes 2 servers that run at 70% power to do the work of one that runs at 100%...where's the savings? Costs the company a ton of extra money, and actually is a *NET GAIN* in power usage.
But the company is "green" and looks are everything. Fools, all.
The more factories we move to China, the more blame we can place on them.
[The more factories we move to China, the more blame we can place on them.]
Good idea. That’s even better than carbon credits.
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