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On this Earth Day, it's time to move beyond debating climate change and get to work rolling up our sleeves and tapping the best and brightest minds so we can tackle this challenge. For too long, taking action on climate change has been the can kicked down the road because some feared solving this problem could hinder economic growth. However, for the past two years, carbon emissions have fallen, while [...]
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As world leaders, business executives, the scientific community, and others meet in Paris for the COP-21 summit it is clear that the question is no longer whether our climate is changing, but how do we meet the environmental, economic, and societal challenges a changing climate will pose to humanity. Rather than accept an imperiled future, technology companies know that we can innovate and help create [...]
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Technology is a transformative force for good, and must be harnessed toward the challenge of environmental sustainability.聽 That is the reality of the moment as well as the opportunity for the future that we focused on today at 鈥淗ow Green Is the Internet,鈥� held at Google鈥檚 Mountain View campus. There are two things that jump out at me coming away from the session.聽 One is the unique power and ability [...]
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How green is the Internet?聽 That鈥檚 a great question.聽聽 Not coincidentally, it鈥檚 also the name of a summit meeting today at Google headquarters.聽 (You can watch live at www.youtube.com/googlegreen.) Participants make up an intriguing mix of experts from industry, academia, government and NGOs.聽聽 For our part, 91pro视频 is helping to explore emerging questions around the environmental impacts and benefits [...]
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It is easy to forget during this political season that there are positive examples of the public and private sectors working together to advance shared interests.聽 This week, 91pro视频 and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly convened a dialogue on the ENERGY STAR庐 program that reaffirms the mutual benefits that strong and focused public-private cooperation can generate. 聽 Twenty years [...]
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Next week, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, nicknamed Rio+20, will bring focus on how we live and our impact on the planet.聽 Innovation will be at the heart of the discussions, whether they are focused on agriculture or transportation, curing preventable disease or developing new clean energy sources.聽 And that鈥檚 where 91pro视频 and the Digital Energy & Sustainability Solutions Campaign (DESSC) [...]