It's been a while, but then September has been highly productive and blogging has come way down the list of things that I've been doing, but there certainly seems to have been a green tinge.
At the beginning of the month I was a speaker at The Carbon Footprint Energy Efficient Summit laid on by London Business Conferences. I spoke about the difficulties of getting air-time and buy-in from a board otherwise distracted by an ever changing business model and where that buy-in didn't occur, resorting to sneaky-green tactics to gain attention by undertaking little changes that would show tangible returns that will grab the board's attention.
Then last night I was at a 451Group Eco Efficient IT round-table discussion. This was a meeting with a number of IT Directors and CTO's to talk about green technology. At the end of the meeting, we were given one of the electricity monitoring devices. I already have one of these and it's been sitting on my mantle piece for about a year now showing me how much electricity I'm using at home and I've had a return in my investment through a reduction in my family's electricity bill. At the meal last night I asked everyone there who already had one of these devices. 4 out of 20 people's hands went up. This was at a meal where everyone had a green agenda at work and was striving to save costs at work and yet they hadn't started to monitor things to drive down usage at home. I was surprised.
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