The hobby project The Urban Micro Jungle starts

The same day as Oil prices hit the highest level since Sept. 2008 I put up the first Beta of my new hobby project "The Urban Micro Jungle" (just a PPT put on the web).

That oil prices reached new highest the same day was obviously a coincident. But it is a bizarre situation when I launch a project to encourage people to see the beauty around them and the same day "analysts" say that problems with high oil prices include "commuters opting for public transportation and car pools" and "vacations closer to home". To call "vacations closer to home" a problem is close to criminal with the current climate crisis, and it just show how far away the rhetoric is from action when it comes to a low-carbon development.

One idea with the Urban Micro Jungle is to get people who use models and work at places that use such assumption to reflect on what they are doing. Not by threatening with a climate catastrophe or how future and current generation are/will be affected, but by showing the beauty around us.

And this is a hobby project so I'm allowed to this without assessing the likelihood of such change ever happening, I will just do my best and hope.

Use of IT to reduce the companies environmental impact (98%) now the most common part in Swedish Green-IT strategies

A recent Swedish study showed that the use of IT to reduce the companies environmental impact (98%) is now the most common part in Green-IT strategies (in Sweden) with 80% including it. Interesting to note how the opportunity/solution perspective is becoming mainstream. Will be interesting to see what the next study show and get more information about the actual content of the studies.

Note: The translation of the categories is mine and not perfect. The question asked was: "What does your Green-IT strategy include?"

Those participating in the study were head of IT, CIO’s, etc in private (61%) and state owned (39%) companies and organizations in Sweden with more than 200 employees. 464 participated in the study.

Source: Exido|IT-barometern 2010: [In Swedish]

Use of IT to reduce the companies environmental impact (98%) now the most common part in Swedish Green-IT strategies

A recent Swedish study showed that the use of IT to reduce the companies environmental impact (98%) is now the most common part in Green-IT strategies (in Sweden) with 80% including it.

Interesting to note how the opportunity/solution perspective is becoming mainstream. Will be interesting to see what the next study show and get more information about the actual content of the studies.

Note: The translation of the categories is mine and not perfect.

The question asked was:

"What does your Green-IT strategy include?"

Those participating in the study were head of IT, CIO’s, etc in private (61%) and state owned (39%) companies and organizations in Sweden with more than 200 employees. 464 participated in the study.

Source: Exido|IT-barometern 2010: [In Swedish]

The word "Robot" 100 years 2021: The countdown has begun

The 25th of January 2021 the word Robot will be 100 years... By then a sustainable framework that direct robot development must be in place and guide what robots we have....

"TheGlobalBody.net" and Robotic innovation and low-­carbon exploration mechanism (RILEM) are two projects that hopefully will contribute to this.

The word "Robot" 100 years 2021: The countdown has begun

The 25th of January 2021 the word Robot will be 100 years... By then a sustainable framework that direct robot development must be in place and guide what robots we have....

"TheGlobalBody.net" and Robotic innovation and low-­carbon exploration mechanism (RILEM) are two projects that hopefully will contribute to this.