Venkel Ltd., a producer of electronics components headquartered in Austin, Texas, has released an infographic that explores the sources of four conflict minerals, coined 3TG (tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold). This comes as the SEC finds itself embroiled in a clash over conflict mineral provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act. Conflict minerals describe earth metals that come [...]
Stats & Figures
Are the PC’s days numbered? Personally, they’ll have to pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. But not for 46 percent of Americans that believe tablets will replace laptops according to a recent study by Poll Position. The survey, conducted earlier this month, reveals that for a huge chunk of the population, tablets may fulfill their mobile [...]
Read more Poll: Tablets will replace laptops say 46% of Americans
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Americans stand to save $450 million in electricity costs a year if they switched to LEDs. Of course, not everyone has warmed to the lighting tech. In this Wall Street Journal piece, the author discovers that some traditionalists can’t get past the cold, artificial lighting cast by some [...]
Read more Stat of the day: $450M in energy savings from LED holiday lights switch
How much e-waste does the U.S. government generate? According to General Services Administration (GSA) head Martha Johnson, “By some estimates, the federal government goes through 10,000 computers a week.” And that’s not the only staggering statistic in this Washington Post/Bloomberg article that examines the steps the GSA and EPA are taking to combat e-waste and [...]
Read more Stat of the day: Feds dispose 10K computers… a week
Where in the world?! Before we get to all those juicy statistics, REN21 came through with a little tech for infoporn addicts by debuting an online Renewables Interactive Map to coincide with the release of the group’s Renewables 2011 Global Status Report. As with all good interactive maps, it’s infinitely clickable and searchable. As a [...]
Read more REN21: Renewables make up nearly 20 percent of global energy production
How timely. Just in time for a heatwave that’s slamming us here in East Coast of the United States, the pixelsmiths at One Block Off the Grid (1BOG) have a nice, stats-infused infographic. In Cool House, Fat Wallet, 1BOG examines the impact of AC on home energy consumption. And given how popular air conditioning systems [...]
Read more Infographic of the day: The high cost of keeping cool
Some interesting news from the green jobs front today. According to a new study, 2.7 million Americans are gainfully employed in “clean economy” jobs, surprisingly beating out some long-established sectors. From WSJ: The study, by researchers at the Brookings Institution and Battelle, concluded that the U.S. clean economy employs more workers than the fossil-fuel and [...]
What does the cloud look like in 2011? What’s it made of? Thanks to a survey conducted by BitNami, Cloud.com and cloud management firm Zenoss, we have a fascinating new snapshot of the cloud market. With the help of 500 IT professionals, the companies were able to get a bead on some of the factors [...]
Today’s infographic comes from the Smart Jobs special report at Wired (click here to view the full version). And should provide America’s battered workforce some valuable insights. At 56.8 percent, the renewables and environment category saw the biggest percentage gains among seven million U.S. job hoppers on LinkedIn during the past five years. (On a [...]
Last week’s Uptime Institute Symposium 2011 event not only brought together data center experts, it also delivered the goods for stat monkeys in the form of the group’s first-ever industry survey results. After a bout of “excitement” from the techies in attendance (riiiiight), the group let loose with the findings, which include… 74% of respondents [...]
Read more Uptime Institute reveals IT’s energy cost blindness… Can accountants cure it?
