Aaron Cohen

Climate Change Week

Wednesday Feb 14, 2007

The first ever Climate Change Week is coming up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 8-9 (if anyone from Malaysia reads this blog!?).  A book will be launched simultaneously titled 'Cut Carbon Grow Profits' that will be highlighting leading companies and what they're doing. 

Why on earth am I telling you this?

Sun will be featured in the book for the company's Eco Responsible Initiative -- both on its commitment and its leadership. 

 



 

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Omnivore's Dilemma

Sunday Dec 31, 2006

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

One of my holiday gifts is a book I received from my brother-in-law, Ominivore's Dilemma.

Already on page 200, it is proving to be an eye-opening, if not somewhat disturbing, account of food.  What I didn't know is that it also has a great deal to do with being eco-conscious when we choose what foods to buy at the grocery store.

 Here is an interesting Did You Know that is relevant to this eco blog.

"...if the sixteen million acres now being used to grow corn to feed cows in the United States became well-managed pasture, that would remove fourteen billion pounds of carbon from the atmosphere each year, the equivalent of taking four million cars off the road.  We seldom focus on farming's role in global warming, but as much as a third of all the greenhouse gases that human activity has added to the atmosphere can be attributed to the saw and the plow."


 


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Tell DiCaprio What You Think about Global Warming

Wednesday Dec 13, 2006

AP and others report that Leonardo DiCaprio is seeking answers from everyone via Yahoo! Answers on creative solutions to combat Global Warming, encouraging community involvement, which is what Sun has been talking about for a long time around its 'share' tenet of its 3 principles to eco responsibility - Innovate, Act, and Share

 His question is:

"What are some simple steps or creative ideas that people can take at home and work to combat global warming?"

Don't respond to my blog.  Share your opinion with Mr. DiCaprio directly here.


source -Actor Leo DiCaprio, right, walks into a benefit for Global Green with Matt Petersen, president and chief executive officer of Global Green, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/John Stoney)

p.s. For those cynics who wonder if Yahoo! is behind all this, one wonders.  Is Yahoo celebrating its victory with its Yahoo! Answers service over Google Answers?  The timing of this news is interesting.  One can only wonder if it is a (very clever) PR stunt by Yahoo! to get more press for its service.  Call me a conspiracy theorist.  After all, it's pretty interesting timing, considering Google announced it is saying adieu (in its present form, anyway) to its original service, Google Answers. 

 


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Did You Know....

Friday Nov 17, 2006

....Dr. Scott Matthews, a shipping expert at Carnegie Mellon University, calculates that the US shipping fleet alone creates more CO2 than the entire country of Canada.

 

Thanks, Sustainablog. 

 


 

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McNealy, Doerr Talk Green with Charlie Rose at Stanford, TechNet panel

Friday Nov 17, 2006

Self-professed "raving capitalist" Scott McNealy talked about Sun's eco-responsibility initiative with Charlie Rose at a TechNet panel and even showed him what our eco-effective chip looked like.

 This is what our CoolThreads processor looks like:


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Unfortunately I didn't get to see this panel so am catching up on the news like everybody else.  See here

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Agenda of event here.

Going Green...Solutions for the Future John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Scott McNealy, Chairman, Sun Microsystems; and KR Sridhar, Co-Founder and CEO, Bloom Energy
Moderated by Charlie Rose followed by Q&A

I hear a transcript is on the way which I will try to post.

 UPDATE

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Energy facts, as reported by TechNet at the summit:

  • The U.S. is the world's largest consumer of oil. It accounts for 25 percent of global daily consumption, but holds less than percent of world's proven oil reserves. The Middle East by contrast holds more than 61 percent of the world's oil reserves (U.S. Department of Energy).
  • The power of the sun: All the energy stored in the earth's reserves of coal, oil and natural gas is equal to the energy from only 20 days of sunshine (Energy Information Administration).
  • Clean, renewable energy like solar and wind power currently produces roughly 2 percent of U.S. electricity. In contrast, nearly 90 percent of our electricity still comes from traditional sources such as coal and nuclear power (U.S. Department of Energy).
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