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Sustainable Living Guide not much help for green computing RFP
In the search for a green RFP for computing I’ve been sent links to more guides to purchasing. Sustainable Business organisations have produced documents such as the Sustainable Living Guide This...
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Green computing charter – edging closer to a green RFP
Continuing the search for a Green computing RFP, Colin Boswell from IRBS points us to the Green Computing Charter. The charter is described as: a seven point charter designed to provide chief...
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Computing ecolabels
A story about a new ecolabel for a budget UK airline caught my eye this week. I like the graphics but also the multifactor approach (they haven’t tried to reduce complex issues down to a single green...
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Willard’s 5 stages
Bob Willard identifies five stages of an organisations adoption of sustainability. I think these are very useful – it helps give context to problems and decisions. I’m re-looking at the skip and the...
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Computing for Sustainability: Low hanging curricula
In Sustainability a “Pervasive Theme” or MIC (”Missing In Curriculum”)? we looked for sustainability in the computing curricula but didn’t find any there. Clearly it should be (well we think so). If...
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Best transformative resources for sustainability?
Karlson ‘Charlie’ Hargroves is the Executive Director of the The Natural Edge Project. He sent us these open source education materials. Their whole system design suite gives a comprehensive...
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Spot the Greenwash
Here’s something else for the “low hanging curricula“. All students should be able to recognise these “Six Sins of Greenwashing” from Terrachoice (pdf, and podcast on Greenbiz radio). Green·wash...
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Green purchasing report: policy needs to state premium
As a precursor to the Green Purchasing Summit last month, EyeForProcurement conducted a survey of environmentally preferable purchasing. The report hides behind a registration wall here. Unfortunately...
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Green criteria in purchasing – an example
Here is another example of a tender document we responded to last week. This one from a quasi-governmental organisation in NZ (there’s lots of good example statements coming from the Govt3 programme)....
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Skipping back to the future
Oh no!, It’s back! Leigh has posted this image of another skip full of computer packaging polystyrene. As we’ve discussed before, the recyclers won’t take it as is no good to them until is part of a...
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