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03 February 2009
Now Brazil Goes Big on the GNU/Linux Desktop
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At the end of last year I wrote about a big Brazilian project to provide 150,000 GNU/Linux notebooks for schools. Now the Brazilian Minist...
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17 December 2008
Goodbye, Frozen North Pole
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And just in time for Christmas: Perhaps the most visible sign of climate change is the Arctic's shrinking sea ice cover. Concerns are g...
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10 October 2008
Sawing Off the Branch on which We Sit
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I am a great believer in trees and the commons they form; it seems to me that going beyond preserving them to extend their coverage across t...
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28 July 2008
Paying the Price
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One of the problems with handling the issue of greenhouse gases is getting countries to accep their responsibilities. The difficulty is tha...
11 March 2008
OpenSpimes
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Open what ? A "spime" (the word -- a contraction of "space" and "time" -- was coined by sci-fi writer Bruce St...
16 December 2007
They Call It A "Non-Polluting Gas"...
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This Open Letter would have rather more credibility if this phrase The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has ...
29 August 2007
A380 + Red Hat = Double Geek Heaven
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Nice , if ecologically dubious: Singapore Airlines is to install a PC running Red Hat Linux operating system in every seat on its newest A38...
20 June 2007
Government Glimmers: Open Source, Open Data
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Kudos : An online calculator that enables people to work out their carbon footprint was launched by Environment Secretary, David Miliband to...
07 June 2007
Cool Earth Meltdown
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I was going to write about Cool Earth before, but the site went down. This is both good and bad news. Bad, because it suggests a lack of ...
20 February 2007
Planting the Bulb of a Good Idea
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News that Australia plans to ban incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more energy efficient fluorescent bulbs led to me this site...
25 January 2007
The Coming Victory of Open Access
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In this blog, I've emphasised the parallels between open source and open access. We know that as Microsoft has become more and more thr...
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26 November 2006
A Lightbulb Goes on in My Head
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Yes, of course : A global switch to efficient lighting systems would trim the world's electricity bill by nearly one-tenth. That is the ...
19 May 2006
They Call It Life, We Call It Lies
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There's an interesting trend in the naming of institutes these days. We have things like the Institute for Software Choice , "a glo...
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