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Author: SustainMe

  • Most Chief Sustainability Officers Close to the Top, Report Finds · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader

    Most Chief Sustainability Officers Close to the Top, Report Finds · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader

    With 35% reporting directly to the CEO and another 55% are no more than 2 degrees removed (C-Level) from the CEO.
    This is a small sample, but interesting how high in the organizations sustainability lands.

    Note that only DuPont (in 2004) had a CSO prior to 2007.

  • Samsung defends against iPad: “Open the Pod Door”

    Samsung defends against Apple iPad lawsuit by claiming 2001: A Space Odyssey as prior art | TiPb: “Samsung defends against Apple iPad lawsuit by claiming 2001: A Space Odyssey as prior art

    Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011 by Rene Ritchie
    ‘via Blog this’

    So, as the Patent Wars start to heat up, like nothing that has ever gone before… The weird and wacky step out into space to duke it out.
    It’s gonna definitely get ugly as you have Google buying Motorola mobile for its production capacity and it’s war chest of some 1,600 telcom-type patents. GoogaZilla, or Moto-oogle will be able to take on the likes of Apple and MicroSkype, now.
    Rumor has it that Apple will buy up ARM Holdings for its patents, even though it already licenses them. ARM owns more than a hand-full of key smart phone patents.
    In the end, we could have only a few companies that own, or have exclusive rights to, most of the patent technology in the know universe.
    In the end, an you may have to go to another world or another universe to be able to operate freely in the patent-protected tech world that’s evolving. When you get there, you may well find Samsung knocking loudly at the PoD Door. Whatever you do, don’t let ’em in!

  • EIA – Press Room – 3.9% increase in CO2 in US for 2010

    EIA – Press Room – Press Releases

    Ouch. This is an ugly increase of about 4% in energy-related CO2 from the USA in 2010.
    We had a 12% reduction during the heat of the recession in 2009, but we’re coming back with a vengeance.
    And, of course, China is out doing us now and growing by leaps and bounds.
    Double ouch!
    Count India into that,
    Triple ouch!:-(

  • Work Shifting – Office in the Cloud… or not?

    Work Shifting – Welcome to Your New Office in the Cloud

    Ok, let me get this straight: only 29% of small business owners had ever heard of Cloud Computing!:-(
    And of those, only 26% could describe what Cloud is?
    If my math is good (29% x 26%) that means that only 7.5% of small business owners know what Cloud is!
    One of the greatest equalizers of our time, and small business owners don’t know what it is. (IT, Edu & IP make 3)
    One can assume that a lot of them aren’t using cloud either? Cloud, SaaS, ASP, etc…. These are a prerequisite for productivity and for successful telecommuting.
    Wow? Gotta go think about this.

  • Transportation: Humor:-) is funnier than the facts:-(

    There’s just a little transportation humor that you need to go with your cup of joe in the morning. (Or you McCoffee or SBUX latte on the way.)

    Both of these come from Sunday, August 14, 2011. The comics, where all news worth knowing comes from:

    So far, though, nothing compares to the hot reality of the 6-day traffic jam in China, one year ago to the days. This specific article anticipated the jam would go on for a few more days. Article by Coonan in The Independent on Aug 25, 2011.

    This type of gridlock is the types of things that we all can look forward to in the next 15 to 30 years if we don’t start to work out more alternatives to the 1-person-per-car commute that 77% of the workforce enjoys(?). That’s about 9.7m single — and I’m not talking unmarried here — commuters each workday out practicing patience-in-defensive-driving. Twice per day.

    Seems to me like telecommuting might be a potential solutions for some of these folks? Huge savings to the employee (time and money), the employer (increased productivity, retention, etc.) and massive savings to the community (reduced pollution, less oil dependence, reduced carbon footprint, fewer roads built, etc.)

    And you get all that, essentially for free!
    Is that idea too revolutionary and crazy,
    or is it just me?

    Hmmm…..