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PORTLAND, Ore. -- By expanding the sales network for the energy efficient and low-toxic computer products to channel resellers, the group behind the green IT rating label aims to help support existing environmental computing goals and make it easier for new companies to board the bandwagon.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- Three months after launching energy management software to help U.S. consumers cut their PC energy use, Verdiem introduced the free software to the United Kingdom market.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- ICT could also save the country up to $240 billion from gross energy and fuel savings, according to research from The Boston Consulting Group and The Climate Group released Tuesday. The groups unveiled the U.S. addendum to a previously released report called "SMART 2020: enabling the low carbon economy in the information age," which used a global scope.
The Green Collar Economy
Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country—the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable.
In The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal—all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line: we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas.
Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.
Rachel Carson's 1963 landmark book Silent Spring was the pivotal ecological examination of the last century. Now, rising above the impenetrable debate over the environment and the economy, Van Jones's The Green Collar Economy delivers a timely and essential call to action for this new century.
Web Site:http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061650758/The_Green_Collar_Economy/index....
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