Since we owe much of our global financial predicament to our cousins across the pond, despite which we seem ever more to emulate their practices in all the wrong ways, I suppose a brief review of where the USA ‘is at’ with regard to an improved approach to carbon reduction and carbon energy conservation is not out of order. 2010 has begun for the Americans mainly with the embarrassment of the underpants bomber only demonstrated that US security is still weak, communications are poor and still took the President too long to respond publicly to the situation; so what did they do in 2009?
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News this week that that much-neglected, yet green energy source, hydropower returned, if not exactly to the headlines, to encourage us to consider it seriously as an investment opportunities.
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Whether you are in manufacturing, banking, investment or just a corporate spread-better, electric automotive technology continues to raise its profile in the news. In the USA, President Obama has just announced a $2.4 billion stimulus plan into electric vehicle technology and even the UK’s own modest £230 million of subsidies for electric car use, to come into effect in 2011, has been extended to the fleet market in recognition of wider implications of this technology.
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have had to pull the recently launched GreenHouse Gas (GHG) conversion rates to be used by businesses to calculate their footprint in advance of reduction measures, after it was discovered that their figures were flawed and that there were ‘other data and methodology’ concerns and ‘inconsistencies between the way in which overseas and domestic electricity is accounted’, according to sustainability consultancy Best Foot Forward (BFF).
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Summer madness has arrived early this year with the arrival of the latest bandwagon that cross-party members are jumping on today… electric cars.
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In an age where many mobile workers now rely on laptops, palmtops and mobile devices in order to keep in touch with the office and prepare documents, is there any longer an argument to permit the use of desktop computers (PCs) in the workplace?
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At the beginning of this month the European Commission announced that it will invest €105 billion (£97 billion) in green projects in its latest budget, a massive increase (almost three times) on what was invested in the last round.
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The IT sector has been progressively more and more under pressure to ‘green’ its act; and rightly so. This is a sector that burns natural resources like it’s going out of fashion (which it rapidly is!).

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I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Third Stakeholder Conference of the Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse the other day, which got me thinking about sustainability in general and the long term future of those companies in the UK that still actually manufacture something in particular (considering we appear to have spent the last 20 years running heel for leather to a service economy model – mmm… could that be why we’re in such a pickle now?).
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