"…perpetuating our addiction to dirty energy technologies of the last two centuries. We analysed the data centre investments of 10 top global cloud companies and our findings show a trend across the industry towards extolling the external effects of IT products and services, while failing to take seriously the need to power this widespread aggregation of the world’s information with clean, renewable electricity. demonstrated a commitment to driving investment attached to clean sources of electricity, the sector as a whole still seeks to define 'green' as being 'more efficient'. This failure to commit to clean energy in the same way energy efficiency is embraced is driving demand for dirty energy, and is holding the sector back from being truly green.
While Apple scored worst of 10 tech companies on Greenpeace's "Clean Energy Index," because of its heavy dependence on coal-fired electricity, it got C grades for transparency and mitigation strategies. By contrast, Twitter, No. 5 on the list, got Fs for both those categories as well as for infrastructure siting. Overall, Yahoo fared best in the report. But nobody got an A in any category.
It's unclear if Brown knows what the debt ceiling is, or what his desired "reforms" might include. It's also unclear why a so-called moderate would threaten to destroy the economy as part of a hostage strategy. But the simple senator from Massachusetts nevertheless raised a point worth watching as the debate proceeds. As we move closer to a dangerous standoff over the debt limit, Republicans aren't just talking about spending cuts. In some ways, this would be much easier if they were. Rather, as the ransom note starts to get filled in with specifics, we're talking about structural and procedural changes. Republicans, in other words, will shoot the hostage (the economy) unless Democrats agree to make it all but impossible to make investments, not just now, but also in the future.
But the simple senator from Massachusetts nevertheless raised a point worth watching as the debate proceeds. As we move closer to a dangerous standoff over the debt limit, Republicans aren't just talking about spending cuts. In some ways, this would be much easier if they were.
Rather, as the ransom note starts to get filled in with specifics, we're talking about structural and procedural changes. Republicans, in other words, will shoot the hostage (the economy) unless Democrats agree to make it all but impossible to make investments, not just now, but also in the future.
How does Heritage justify describing the removal of government barriers to a loving couple freely deciding to marry as a threat to liberty? Simple: Heritage worries that if gays are allowed to marry, florists who hate gays might face sanction if they discriminate against gay customers who want flowers for their wedding. Seriously. But Heritage knows it's a losing argument to say it favors the rights of bigots to discriminate. So instead it disingenuously claims to be concerned with defending "individuals' right of conscience." In Heritage's telling, this means three things: Protecting the "rights" of medical professionals to refuse to provide family planning and abortion services, protecting the "rights" of Christian businesses to discriminate against non-Christians, and protecting the "right" to discriminate against gays.
But Heritage knows it's a losing argument to say it favors the rights of bigots to discriminate. So instead it disingenuously claims to be concerned with defending "individuals' right of conscience." In Heritage's telling, this means three things: Protecting the "rights" of medical professionals to refuse to provide family planning and abortion services, protecting the "rights" of Christian businesses to discriminate against non-Christians, and protecting the "right" to discriminate against gays.