It is with pleasure that Transition ICT announces that we will be hosting a workshop / debating space in the Be the Media Bristol Wireless Cybertent at this year’s Big Green Gathering. The workshop will present the Transition ICT project in the form of the original project proposal and the progress so far. We also hope to have people from the Transition Towns and Transition Web projects taking part.
So if you’re at the Big Green, do come along to the workshop which takes place at 10AM on Saturday 1st August in the Be the Media space in the Campaigns field.
It is with much sadness that we receive the news that one of the Transition ICT partners and friend Richard Anthony Rothwell took his own life on Friday 17th July 2009.
Greenpeace’s latest guide criticises major PC manufacturers for backtracking on promises to reduce the hazardous materials used in their products. Find out more
Three Bristish based environmental groups involved in campaigns against the root causes of climate change, People & Planet, World Development Movement (WDM) and Platform, are taking the British Treasury to court, a Judicial Review to stop the now 70% state owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) investing in projects which are linked to climate change, environmental destruction and human rights violations. The groups argue that the government has failed to do a proper assessment of the way RBS-NatWest runs its business. Find out more by visiting this page at P&P’s web site.
Every twitter, Facebook posting and You Tube video viewed has a carbon cost that is becoming increasingly dear, as our use of computers grows exponentionally.
The expanding digital cloud contributes 2 per cent of global emissions of carbon dioxide, about the same as aviation, and it’s rising. The high energy demands of the massive data centres needed to store all our information are of growing concern to both the government and industry. But how can they be made greener and more efficient? Costing the Earth investigates.
Welcome to Transition ICT’s new blog. Here we will provide comment and interesting articles relevant to the world of information and communications technology and the environment. Be it government initiatives, new low-impact or low-energy products on the market, environmental or economic news affecting the ICT sector or ideas on improving your organisation’s sustainability, we hope that this site will be your one stop portal to this world.
It is with pleasure that Transition ICT announces that we will be hosting a workshop / debating space in the Be the Media Bristol Wireless Cybertent at this year’s Big Green Gathering. The workshop will present the Transition ICT project in the form of the original project proposal and the progress so far. We also hope to have people from the Transition Towns and Transition Web projects taking part.
