What between moving snow around and playing in same, I have been neglecting this blog again. If you’re missing me, I invite you to listen to this recent interview I did with Mike Barlow, host of Paid by the Word podcast.
Sustainability
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Amazon Digs Renewables, But Progress Is Elusive
Is the world’s largest provider of cloud computing services falling down on its 2014 pledge to one day power all of its data centers entirely with renewable energy? That’s the question posed recently by an investigative report in The Information (subscription required, but you can snag a free trial), citing…
Sustainability
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Why You Should Pay More Attention to Bloom Energy
When rocket scientist K.R. Sridhar founded the technology startup that would become Bloom Energy in 2001 — and famously introduced its electricity-generating “box” to the world in 2010 during a “60 Minutes” segment — his inspiration was a photograph snapped from outer space illustrating the vast swaths of planet Earth…
Entrepreneurship
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It’s time for tech companies to show their conscience
If my 30-something-years experience as a journalist holds true, this will be the week many U.S. tech companies emerge from the relative radio silence that has characterized their public response to economic upheaval being wreaked by coronavirus to talk about how they plan to help — not just with immediate…