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) You can find more research on the impacts of cloud computing and Amazon’s contributions here:
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) The short answer is that it does. Before cloud technology, businesses and organizations that wanted to store their data needed to do it themselves, usually at their own location. Cloud computing allows anyone to access their data remotely…
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) There are a number of companies that provide data services powered with renewable energy. You can find a few here.
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) Amazon has begun generating renewable energy with the construction of Its own wind and solar farms. By 2018, 50% of the energy powering AWS servers came from renewable sources.
While these are welcome developments, in the coal-heavy regions such as…
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) Despite its size and financial resources, AWS lags behind every other major company that operates data centers on a large scale. Unlike Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, Amazon has disclosed very little information about its energy use and its…
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) A list of AWS clients, including businesses, governments, federal agencies and universities can be found here.
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) When you turn on your laptop and connect to the Internet, you may think you’re only using electricity to power your computer. But information on the Internet is stored physically on servers, which require electricity. These servers run on a mix of…
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) Researchers at Greenpeace estimate that if the cloud were a country it would be one of the biggest consumers of electricity on the planet—sixth in fact, after Russia, and before Germany. In 2012, analysts at the New York Times …
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) We are calling on AWS to commit to:
1) accelerate its goal to increasing the share of renewable energy powering data centers to 100% by 2020, and cease the construction of new data centers that rely on coal-fired power;
2) Submit complete and…
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) Amazon Inc.’s cloud computing branch, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the single largest provider of cloud services, it is growing quickly, and its data centers consume massive amounts of energy. Amazon provides limited reporting on its energy use,…
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) “The cloud” is a term that refers to the computing infrastructure that collectively comprises the internet. It is a network of data warehouses that store and process information. The cloud allows any internet user to access files stored there from…
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) Written by Nicky Schauder of Permaculture Gardens, a member of our Green Business Network.
My family and I have a Climate Victory Garden in the suburbs of Washington DC. I wanted to give you a tour of our garden with the hopes it will…
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) John Heermann uses diversity to turn dirt into soil.
Heermann is a dryland farmer in Haxtun, Colorado. Mention of the state conjures images of the Rocky Mountains, but—situated squarely between the mountain west and Midwest—Colorado also has a rich…
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) Written by Matt and Kara Rutter, founders of Project Victory Gardens, an agritherapy program in Aiken, South Carolina that brings together and supports veterans and a sustainable food system. They are also Climate Victory Gardeners, excited to share…
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