Monthly Archives: May 2008

Renault Nissan: “the time for the mass-market zero-emission car has come”

May 18, 2008 – 4:53 pm

It is easy to be disillusioned about the motor industry, especially after reading the remarks of GM’s Bob Lutz calling Global Warming a “Total crock of shi*t”!
However, an interview in The Economist recently with Renault-Nissan’s CEO Carlos Ghosn was very heartening. Mr. Ghosn plans that Renault and Nissan will lead the car industry in developing […]

By Tom Raftery | Posted in transportation | Comments (2)

Reduce your carbon footprint using virtual worlds

May 8, 2008 – 11:26 am

Virtual Worlds such as Second Life are largely dismissed as trivial and a waste of time by many people (myself included until recently!).
However a recent conversation with Pierre-Olivier Carles changed all that for me. Pierre is the co-founder and CEO of Stonefield Inworld - a company which builds things for people in virtual worlds.
For example, […]

By Tom Raftery | Posted in travel | Comments (6)

Nortel, good for the bottom line, good for the planet?

May 5, 2008 – 11:03 pm

When building our hyper energy-efficient data center, CIX we used many strategies to lower our carbon footprint. One such strategy was to source energy efficient infrastructure, such as the GE Super ECO UPS’.
However, obviously one place we chose poorly was in our switches. We went for Cisco switches. Why was that a poor choice?

I […]

By Tom Raftery | Posted in energy efficiency | Comments (6)