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Green ICT in Practice

September 3, 2008 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Bristol, Green ICT , add a comment

Gary Hird, graduate of the Cranfield IT Leadership Programme and a member of the IT Leadership Forum has just written a book on Green IT in Practice

it is available from Amazon

All author royalties are being donated to charity: 50% to an environmental charity called Global Action Plan, and 50% to the charity Myositis Support Group

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Green ICT Web Tutorials

June 4, 2008 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Bristol, Environment, Technology, Green ICT , 2 comments

What is green ICT? Why do we need greener data centres? What is the smart grid?

Internet Evolution’s Green IT web tutorials present the answers as short online videos. Watch them here. You can even email the video tutor your own green ICT questions and he will respond on-line.

Thanks to Giles Liddell for sending the link

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Virtual Farmers Market - Join us on 29th May to Help Develep Bristol's NESTA Big Green Challenge Bid

May 19, 2008 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Bristol, Innovation, Events, Environment, Green ICT, Food, Bids , 10 comments

NESTA Big Gren Challenge
VIRTUAL FARMERS MARKET PROPOSAL

The food we eat makes a significant contribution to climate change, accounting for 31% of our greenhouse gas emissions (EU 2007). If we are to stand a realistic chance of preventing runaway global warming, it is time to rethink our agricultural systems. This project seeks to go beyond the popular concept of “food miles” to consider the complete life-cycle of food – from field to plate. A sustainable local food system will address emissions by engaging the communities of the Bristol city-region, from the farmers and allotment associations, to the consumer, to local government, academics and community groups…

Open Collaboration Session

Date: 29th May
Time: 2.30-5pm (followed by networking opportunity)
Location: Connecting Bristol, First Floor, 11-19 Wine Street, Bristol BS1 2PH MAP

Purpose:

Bristol’s bid to create a Virtual Farmer’s Market (VFM) has won through to the next stage of the NESTA Big Green Challenge competition. Well done Matt Fortnam of University of Bristol for taking the proposal this far!

Read a PDF summary of the bid here - Virtual Farmers Market Sumary

The timescale is, of course, very short. A final bid must be made to NESTA by 9th June. We are working with local food consultants F3 and Ed Mitchell to further develop the bid and will be holding an open collaboration session on 29th May to achieve the following,

Registration

The Open Collaboration Session is an opportunity for anyone who is interested in this proposal to join-in. Please join us at this session. We welcome your input. Just confirm your attendance by registering HERE

We look forward to meeting you

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