Author Archives: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery is a blogger, podcaster, speaker and social media consultant

Reduce your carbon footprint using virtual worlds

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, […]

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

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 […]

Eco friendly browser?

Flock launched an Eco edition of their browser the other day.
What way is it Eco? It has a nice green theme, it comes pre-loaded with links to green sites, blogs, and media but far more importantly, 10% of the search revenue will be donated to a green organization that readers select at the end of […]

EnergyCamp - first unconference on Green IT

photo credit: UrbanPhotos Las Vegas
I am headed to EnergyCamp - the world’s first unconference on Green IT.
It is on this coming Monday, April 28th in Las Vegas and before you laugh too much at the thought of a Green Energy conference in Vegas maybe you should read James’ post on this.
I’m very much looking […]

Dopplr rolls out Carbon Footprint data

I mentioned previously that Dopplr were about to add Carbon Footprint data to your travel data, well they made it live today.

I got a serious fright when I checked it first as it had mistaken my trips to Dublin last year as trips to Dublin CA (there’s a Dublin in California?). How likely was it […]

Information on cars’ CO2 emissions

I’m going to be in the market for a new car soon. My biggest priority in choosing a car will be its carbon footprint but where can I find this information?
I trawled through Google but had a difficult time finding anything useful until I came across the British Government’s Act on CO2 site.
Here you can […]

You can’t store wind energy easily

Image via Wikipedia

I like Michael Kanellos a lot. If you don’t know Michael, he writes regularly on the CNet Green Tech blog and I met him recently when he was in Ireland for the ISA Annual Conference.
However, I was very disappointed this morning to read one of Michael’s stories about a study of the viability […]

Map of CO2 emissions across the US

Via James I came across this hi-res map of the continental US colour coded by CO2 emissions generated by a team out of Purdue University.
From the site’s About page:
The Vulcan Project is a NASA/DOE funded effort under the North American Carbon Program (NACP)to quantify North American fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at space and […]

China to build 97 new airports in 12 years!

Image by pbo31 via Flickr

News.com reported the other day that China is to build another 97 airports in the next 12 years. That’s a little over 8 new airports a year for the next twelve years at a cost estimated around $64 billion.
That’s great news if you are in the runway business but not so […]

New computer? Check out ClimateSavers!

No, Climate Savers isn’t a new brand of computer manufacturer. Nor is it a hip new computer store.
No, Climate Savers is a coming together of computer manufacturers to reduce the power consumption of computers by 50% by 2010.
There are a lot of big brand manufacturers there (although conspicuously absent are Sony and Apple).
Climate Savers has […]