Eco

Green Recovery!

Posted Mon, 06/15/2009 - 18:01 by geekism

 

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to talk with Andrew S. Winston, the author of Green to Gold.  I met Andrew when he presented at Dave Douglas's 2008 Eco Summit in Santa Clara, CA and we had stayed in contact. Andrew was undertaking a new project and wanted input about Data Centers for one of the sections. 

Green Recovery focuses on how companies can use environmental thinking to survive hard economic times and position themselves for growth and advantage when the downturn ends.  One core focus is on getting lean -- taking action in five key areas of the business that can yield quick payback and high ROI.  Andrew recently put out a free report, Green Cost Cutting, that includes the introduction from the new book and the chapter "Get Lean".  The purpose of releasing the content early is to put out some of the tactical, short-term ideas as soon as possible so companies can employ them quickly. 

Andrew was gracious enough to include quotes from myself and Subodh Bapat. You can pre-order a copy through Amazon. You can download the free excerpt (introduction and the chapter "Get Lean") here. 

 

 

Carbon Girl Sighting

Posted Wed, 10/08/2008 - 16:09 by geekism

Today, Sun received an award from the US EPA for blowing the doors off of its original goal of reducing 20% of Green House Gas emissions, based on 2002 levels, by 2012.  Sun achieved 23% reduction four years ahead of schedule.  Lori Duvall, aka "Carbon Girl" was on hand to receive the award for Sun.  You can see the press release here.  You an hear Carbon Girl discuss this further on Sun News Radio.

It feels really good to know that the efforts of the Work Environments business unit (that I proudly reside in) have made such a difference to Sun both economically and ecologically.  The benefits of open work, our products and consolidating real estate and datacenter space into brutally efficient, flexible, scalable (future-proof) locations helped our bottom line by reducing our California Bay Area operating expense by 30%.  Now we see the positive impact of those economic decisions to our ecological commitments. Green is not a fad, it is good business.

So today, we bask in glory of beating the goal.  Tomorrow, we continue on our next goal of reducing our GHG by 20%, based on 2007 levels, by 2015.  Stay tuned for more sightings of Carbon Girl!  You go Lori!  :-)

 

 

 

 

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