environment | Decoding the new economy

Old king coal loses his merry men

Desperate rural communities look to obliging politicians to get mining jobs back. Sadly they won’t be returning.

Do successful cities need to be walkable?

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Do smaller cities have the advantage with the new economy?

How Green is the Internet?

What are the environmental costs of the internet, cloud computing and big data?

The London Times reports Harvard University researchers have found two Google searches have the same carbon footprint as boiling a kettle. This should be no surprise as it’s easy to forget the energy consumed by every computing task we do. It’s not Google’s computers that are energy hungry, those sitting on our desks or laps…… Continue reading The carbon cost of computing