Video: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Repair. Let’s add Redistribute to the list. Rachel Botsman, co-author of “What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption,” has a great TED Sydney presentation on how social media and the “frictionless” aspects online community building are changing the behavior of consumers. From item swap sites to car sharing […]
Follow Friday Tweetfest of Awesomeness: Green Jobs Edition
Gloomy employment picture? Not if you’re an cleantech and energy efficiency expert! It’s been a while since I cooked up one of my spectacularly popular Twitter follow lists (cue crickets, tumbleweeds), so I thought that this would be a good time to spotlight some great Twitter accounts for launching your new green career (in IT […]
Follow (Me) Friday: @GigaOMPro
Follow @GigaOMPro on Twitter.And not because I’m curating the Green IT section for a while. No, you should follow GigaOM Pro if you’re seeking insightful analysis on IT infrastructure, the mobile industry, and consumer electronics. See how I just expanded…
Green IT News Roundup – Follow Friday Edition – July 24
Microsoft: GPL Linux Code Release Not Due to Violation – CIO.com via @VMDigest Microsoft released set of Linux drivers for its Hyper-V software under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) not because of “perceived obligations” to that license but…
TED + Twitter = Home Energy Tweets
Tweet-a-Watt got the ball rolling, but this project by the Energy Circle one-ups that clever hack to imbue followers of @EnergyCircleKW at Twitter with full-house consumption stats. (Since it’s based on a Kill-a-Watt, Tweet-a-Watt can only report on a single…
Green IT News Roundup – Follow Friday Edition – July 10
No Time to e-waste – ITWeb via @sustainableIT Kobus de Beer, Dell’s enterprise brand manager, says adopting a ‘green by design’ approach to producing IT equipment has a dual function. “From a green perspective, it’s about designing products that contain…
Green IT News Roundup Twitter Edition – Wednesday, July 1
Let’s do a little something different. Today’s headlines are based on tweets from folks that are followed by and/or follow @ecoINSITE. You should follow them too. Will Oracle kill Sun virtualization too? – SearchServerVirtualization Blog via @ColinSteele On one hand,…
10 Green IT Folks to Follow on Twitter
#followfriday There’s a good chance you’re seeing a lot of that today on Twitter. In the spirit of Follow Friday, I’m getting in on the act with a list Twitterers that offer good insights on greening those server rooms,…
