(re) blog: dialogue with Redemtech

The Price of Emission

More and more people are drawing conclusive links between computer technology and carbon dioxide emissions linked by science to global warming and environmental destruction. Experts agree that it is important for representatives of the global information and communications technology industry to understand the correlations between the technology upon which it relies for business operations and growing threats to the world environment.

The Healthy Benefits of Organic Growth

Nothing makes industry analysts and media wonks happier than when an emerging market begins to consolidate. Companies are bought and sold. The big get bigger, the small guys fail; fortunes are made and jobs are lost. It all makes for some very melodramatic story telling that often overlooks a very fundamental question: is it good for customers?

Some Passwords Don’t Figure

Surfing the cable channels late one evening when I was unable to sleep, I came across an old movie I used to appreciate. War Games is a terribly technologically outdated film about a teenage computer whiz who mistakenly hacks into a military computer charged with monitoring the global nuclear landscape. Watching the movie 24 years after it was made, I was amused by a pre-Producers Matthew Broderick literally spending days trying to figure out a password to gain entry to what he thought was a computer game company.

Potluck Pile-up on I-70

Here’s the recipe: Open two large cans of name-brand baked beans obtained at the local grocery store. Throw in a heaping cup of brown sugar and some spices. Add 10 slices of crisp turkey bacon, plus a splash of your favorite barbecue sauce. There you have it – Bart’s secret family recipe for barbecued beans.

Oh, did I forget to mention that this is a recipe for disaster?

Simple Tools Enable Customers to Help Businesses Reduce Costs

Recently I took my daughter to eat at one of our favorite restaurants, where I always admire the fantastically engineered process the management has designed for recovery of materials when people are done with their meals. The restaurant specializes in soups served in ceramic bowls and sandwiches balanced on glass plates, yet uses the basic fast-food set-up where customers stand in line to order and retrieve their food.

WEEE: Ready or Not

The European Union's WEEE Directive has been touted as a model for electronics producer responsibility, but many do not realize that years after its passage, the law is only now taking effect—country by country (for example, the Directive went into effect in the U.K. on July 1). From a recycling infrastructure and capacity perspective, the unfortunate truth for WEEE is that Europe is unprepared to accept the tsunami of e-waste that the law will generate, and its implementors' near-term efforts will favor expediency over environmental stewardship.

Responsible Businesses Don't Make Sustainability Choices - People Do

Everyone has a responsibility as an inhabitant of the Earth to do his or her part toward protecting and improving the environment. It is our duty, and desire as parents and grandparents, to do the right thing in support of future generations. 

EIA Framework for E-waste - Some Reservations

I once worked for a huge company that absolutely worshipped bureaucracy. I recall a time when the human resources department had replaced its metal file cabinets and those of us in the adjacent communications department yearned for the leftovers sitting in the hallway outside of our offices. Several of us gathered in the corridor to physically move the discarded, dented monoliths into our work area, only to be stopped by a manager quoting “corporate protocol.”