Modernomics* – Daily Writings on Technology
a site by Erik T. Kaiser, Design Technologist
In a survey released in September 2008 by KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm, two-thirds of those polled said that green technology investment is sustainable. Almost all said they expected venture capital for start-ups producing these technologies to continue to increase in 2009. Half predicted an increase of 20 percent or more over 2008 [...]
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Shoppers expect the tags on Wal-Mart items to have rock-bottom prices. In the future they may also have information about the product’s carbon footprint, the gallons of water used to create it, and the air pollution left in its wake. [via NYTimes]
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photo credit: Ennor (computer problems) Thomas Friedman is an interesting man. For one, his book on globalization: The World Is Flat was mandatory reading at Lehigh in an intro course to Information Systems, and caused a great deal of debate on the topic during many a class session. But, his current op-ed in the New [...]
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photo credit: photomequickbooth IBM has brought Cisco Systems and a host of the world’s biggest energy services companies into partnership with its flagship energy efficiency and carbon reduction consulting service, Greentech Media reports. Last year, IBM launched a consulting practice, called “Green Sigma,” based on taking sensor data and analysis software and applying them toward [...]
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photo credit: Argonne National Laboratory Wired Gadget Lab reports of another Green innovation IBM is in the process of developing: Massive supercomputers that devour electricity to keep them humming are not exactly the poster children for green technology. But IBM hopes to change that with its plans to build a supercomputer that will use water [...]
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photo credit: Argonne National Laboratory Wired Gadget Lab reports of another Green innovation IBM is in the process of developing: Massive supercomputers that devour electricity to keep them humming are not exactly the poster children for green technology. But IBM hopes to change that with its plans to build a supercomputer that will use water [...]
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Saving more than $100M since 1998 by conserving energy, IBM continues to set environmental goals while openly reporting its performance, proving good practices generate good money. IBM’s approach to the environment offers one such set of lessons. As a result of our research into Big Blue’s approach, we have identified three fundamental cultural traits that [...]
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Dow turns positive for ’09 – Wall Street ends a mixed week little changed, but investors manage to push the blue-chip average into the plus column for the year. [Via CNN Money] Europe Lags as U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Recovery — There was more evidence Thursday that the United States economy might be stabilizing, [...]
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