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Articles mentioning both Peter Judge and Greenpeace
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Does Greenpeace Even Get Tech?
Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 23 2012) Fossil Fuel
...for the largest array of solar cells in the US, and a big set of fuel cells from Bloom Energy. Does Greenpeace Even Get Tech? It is important to make IT greener, but we need a better watchdog than Greenpeace, says Peter Judge On May 23, 2012 by Peter Judge 0 Greenpeace is a diverse organisation that campaigns across a wide range of issues. It’s recently been weighing...
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Was greenpeace's apple protest timed too well? by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 20 2012)
A fascinating week for green technology at Apple. Greenpeace increased the scale of its protests against Apple’s “dirty cloud” - asking it to shift to electrici...
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Happy Earth Day? No, Let's Get Angry! by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 22 2012)
...ce then, I’ve seen annual announcements of green awards and initiatives, and always some anger from Greenpeace.
This year is no different. The Uptime Institute announced a set of Green Enterprise IT awards hono...
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Solar 'Storm' Hits Data Centers by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 25 2012)
...MW data center at Prineville Oregon, has a 100kW solar array. Anyone giving it publicity (including Greenpeace and, I admit it, my site TechWeekEurope) should remember that this is 0.4 percent of the total powe...
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Once again, Efficiency is not the same as renewable supply - by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 2 2012) Construction , Emissions , Solar , Servers
...lking at cross purposes. Or else you might just be deliberately fudging the issue.
Facebook and Greenpeace spent a lot of 2011 involved in just such a fruitless discussion. Facebook was delivering massive e...
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Season of goodwill for Greenpeace and Facebook - by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 18 2011)
There’s enough bad news around, so let’s warm our hands on the cosy glow of Greenpeace and Facebook, finally making up with a kiss under the mistletoe. After a year of Greenpace campaig...
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The Cloud And The Client: Apple’s Green Dilemma
Explore da.feedsportal.com (Dec 14 2011) Fossil Fuel
... This has been changing somewhat as it opens up slightly, and Apple sits somewhere in the middle of Greenpeace’s latest consumer IT rankings
A cloud hanging over all green IT?
However the arrival of the c......ergy use in the client device. The Cloud And The Client: Apple’s Green Dilemma December 14, 2011 by Peter Judge judge2 Tweet Apple could find itself attacked simultaneously for wasting energy at ...
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two wins for greenpeace by peter judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 13 2011)
It’s been an interesting week for Greenpeace. Tthe environmental campaign group published its green electronics ranking - and also won a legal v...
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face book's gone renewable - but not because of greenpeace - by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 30 2011)
...is new for Facebook, is the fact that the data center uses only renewable (hydroelectric) energy.
Greenpeace, as you all know, has been campaigning for some time to get Facebook to “unfriendcoal”, responding ...
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Slower Disks will save the world (or $$) by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 29 2011)
...ion about making data centers more efficient. It may have been partly in response to criticism from Greenpeace over Facebook’s use of coal-fired electricity, and it certainly contrasts with Facebook’s normal at...
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don't assume the cloud is green - read the fine print, by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 8 2011)
...rbon saving by simply assuming all electricity is generated the same way.
In fact, of course - as Greenpeace has been pointing out for some time - some energy is renewable or nuclear, with a low carbon footpr...
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Could Servers Replace Household Boilers?
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 27 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
The Data Furnace is a tiny data centre that could heat your house. Peter Judge is not immediately convinced
What do we make of the proposal, from Microsoft Research, to heat hom......s, or “data furnaces”?
Like most people, our initial reaction is doubt, as even data centre critic Greenpeace admits that centralisation is more efficient. But the paper, written by staff from Microsoft Resear...
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the pincer move that could open up data centers - by peter judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 17 2011)
...hree directions - pressure groups, government, and the industry itself.
Firstly, pressure groups. Greenpeace made its case again, at a London conference, that data centers should reduce their carbon emissions......se in the industry who back lower carbon - might just be enough to make sure it gets published.
Peter Judge is editor of eWEEKEuropeUK --> One way or another, organisations are going to have to be more open...
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Possible truce For Greenpeace and data centers - by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 5 2011)
The argument between Greenpeace and data centers has seemed pretty intractable - so when the environmental campaign met with the in...
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Does it require a real crisis to produce real change? by peter judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 13 2011)
... us that Apple’s iCloud is on coal-fired electricity, which won’t satisfy environmentalists such as Greenpeace.
Whatever Apple and Amazon do, power costs are increasing, and the energy mix is shifting, so th...
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How Green Is Apple’s iCloud?
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 8 2011) Cloud Computing
...adoption of cloud computing – but questions remain about the energy efficiency of the project, says Peter Judge
For consumers, Apple’s iCloud announcement this week is simply another way to move music and movie...... biggest in the US. It is also one of the world’s dirtiest, according to Apple’s long-time nemesis, Greenpeace.
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greenpeace shifts its sights to apple - by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 25 2011)
...s carry on much as before, But the day saw a shift in the ongoing PR war over data center energy.
Greenpeace’s report, How Dirty is your Data ranked ten leading cloud IT companies according to how “dirty” ele...
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Facebook’s Open Compute Gets Discussion Going
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 13 2011) Power and Cooling , Servers
...initiatives seem like bearing fruit, though the discussion between Facebook and environmental group Greenpeace looks completely stalled. Facebook’s Open Compute Gets Discussion Going April 13, 2011 by Peter Judge judgesquare Tweet When Facebook opened up its green data centre ideas, it also opened up a big disc...
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facebook and greenpeace, why can't they be friends? by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 11 2011)
The war between Facebook and Greenpeace over green power in data centers took a couple of new twists in the past week, and leaves most of u...
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It's time we stopped talking rubbish about e-waste - by peter judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 21 2011)
...ure they get pulled out of the waste stream safely. .
Is it working? Well, I’d have to say no, as Greenpeace tells me there are still plenty of illegal shipments of electronic goods headed for the developing ...
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The Inconvenient Truth About Carbon Intensity
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 9 2011) Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel
...the most efficient data centre has a carbon footprint, dependent on its source of electricity, says Peter Judge There’s nothing like being specific, and being persistent. Last year, environmental campaigner Greenpeace asked Facebook to stop using coal-fired power in its power stations; this year, it’s back on the su...
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why low pue ain't so green - by peter judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 1 2011)
... out Carbon Usage Effectiveness (a measure of the carbon intensity of IT).
But does it mean that Greenpeace’s campaign against Facebook’s use of Oregon’s “dirty power” was justified? Well, maybe, maybe not. ...
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Green Grid Delivers A CUE For Greener Power - By Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 6 2010)
...these two measures could have helped sort out the unecessarily heated argument between Facebook and Greenpeace, over the fact that Facebook’s Oregon data center is efficient (has a low PUE) but uses electricity...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Verne Global The Green Grid
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Data Centre Carbon Counting – Could It Cool The Arguments?
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 2 2010) Fossil Fuel , Servers
When Facebook fell out with Greenpeace over coal-fired power, the new Green Grid measurement might have helped sort things out, says Peter Judge. Arguments about data centre power took a nasty turn earlier this year.
Facebook announced it had ...
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