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The sustainability angle: While data is an increasingly important part of our world and a source of non-material value creation, it can also be cause of wasted resource consumption. Studies repeatedly show that a majority of stored data is never accessed again. And while only a small portion needs to be retained for compliance, a huge proportion is stored multiple times due to wide distribution and/or retention of multiple copies that have only minor difference. This data is consuming physical resources used to create systems, bandwidth in networks, and especially energy required to power and cool the storage equipment. Another category of D-waste includes data that do require retention, e.g., for contingency or compliance, but are being stored at the unnecessarily high performance levels that can consume an order of magnitude more energy than when stored on slower, larger disk drives. Technologies such as data de-duplication and automated storage tiering help mitigate the issue of D-waste.

The authors predict that by 2030, energy production in the United States will occupy a land area larger than Minnesota — in large part owing to the pursuit of domestic clean energy.

Remediation of children: All support and actions necessary to ensure the safety, health, education, and development of children who have been subjected to child labor and have been subsequently dismissed.

• Who holds the trademark?
• In what countries is it trademarked?

Media:With humrts policies in place need to be careful of 'rights washing' #csrchat https://twitter.com/#!/company2keepinc/status/70951590248460288

The sustainability angle: While data is an increasingly important part of our world and a source of non-material value creation, it can also be cause of wasted resource consumption. Studies repeatedly show that a majority of stored data is never accessed again. And while only a small portion needs to be retained for compliance, a huge proportion is stored multiple times due to wide distribution and/or retention of multiple copies that have only minor difference. This data is consuming physical resources used to create systems, bandwidth in networks, and especially energy required to power and cool the storage equipment. Another category of D-waste includes data that do require retention, e.g., for contingency or compliance, but are being stored at the unnecessarily high performance levels that can consume an order of magnitude more energy than when stored on slower, larger disk drives. Technologies such as data de-duplication and automated storage tiering help mitigate the issue of D-waste.

The authors predict that by 2030, energy production in the United States will occupy a land area larger than Minnesota — in large part owing to the pursuit of domestic clean energy.

Abstract: Concern over climate change has led the U.S. to consider a cap-and-trade system to regulate emissions. Here we illustrate the land-use impact to U.S. habitat types of new energy development resulting from different U.S. energy policies. We estimated the total new land area needed by 2030 to produce energy, under current law and under various cap-and-trade policies, and then partitioned the area impacted among habitat types with geospatial data on the feasibility of production. The land-use intensity of different energy production techniques varies over three orders of magnitude, from 1.9–2.8 km2/TW hr/yr for nuclear power to 788–1000 km2/TW hr/yr for biodiesel from soy. In all scenarios, temperate deciduous forests and temperate grasslands will be most impacted by future energy development, although the magnitude of impact by wind, biomass, and coal to different habitat types is policy-specific. Regardless of the existence or structure of a cap-and-trade bill, at least 206,000 km2 will be impacted without substantial increases in energy efficiency, which saves at least 7.6 km2 per TW hr of electricity conserved annually and 27.5 km2 per TW hr of liquid fuels conserved annually. Climate policy that reduces carbon dioxide emissions may increase the areal impact of energy, although the magnitude of this potential side effect may be substantially mitigated by increases in energy efficiency. The possibility of widespread energy sprawl increases the need for energy conservation, appropriate siting, sustainable production practices, and compensatory mitigation offsets. Editor: Juan A. Añel, Universidade de Vigo, Spain

Received: March 13, 2009; Accepted: August 7, 2009; Published: August 26, 2009

Copyright: © 2009 McDonald et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Funding: The authors were financially supported by The Nature Conservancy (R.I.M, J.F., J.K., J.P.) and Northwestern University (W.M.M.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Oliver’s truly revolutionary nutrition crusade was pulled by ABC in May, before its final episodes could even air. With only two remaining shows, the first of which airs Friday, Food Revolution’s uncomfortable but often hilarious unmasking of pointless obesity, political machinations and crappy school menus has proven too real for even so-called reality television.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution broke out of the gate in its first season, scoring an Emmy award for Outstanding Reality Program. But after Oliver, a TED prize-winner for his nutrition-oriented show, successfully downsized a statistically unhealthy Huntington, West Virginia, the English chef and TV personality met with little more than brick walls when he got to Los Angeles for Season 2.

From unflinching resistance from the Los Angeles Unified School District, which refused to let him film in its schools, to blinkered blowback from the city’s fast-food entrepreneurs, the second season of Food Revolution proved to be a Kafkaesque exercise in edible absurdity.

This paper describes a new theory of peer-to-peer learning and teaching that we call "paragogy". Paragogy's principles were developed by adapting the Knowles principles of andragogy to peer-based learning contexts. Paragogy addresses the challenge of peer-producing a useful and supportive context for self-directed learning.

Remediation of children: All support and actions necessary to ensure the safety, health, education, and development of children who have been subjected to child labor and have been subsequently dismissed.

• Who holds the trademark?
• In what countries is it trademarked?

Media:With humrts policies in place need to be careful of 'rights washing' #csrchat https://twitter.com/#!/company2keepinc/status/70951590248460288

The TakeAway: Social materiality gains traction as the role of business in advancing human rights attracts wider support.