Green Business
How hot air from your computer might stifle the planet and is solar power was now becoming do-able.
Business Daily goes all contrarian today. We eschew conventional greenery and question the economics of solar power and the merits of eating local food. Might distant food be better for the planet? And why the computer on your desk is warming the globe.
Steve Evans talks to Robin Johnson, the Chief Information Officer of Dell, on big saving in computers using electricity.
One of the world's big makers of solar power equipment is the Indian company Boser Maer, Steve asked its chief financial officer, Yogesh Mathur, if solar power was now becoming do-able.
There is a focus on food miles, on cutting the distance from farm to fork, as it's put. So are food miles nonsense? It's a question I put to James Walton, the chief economist of IGD which represents the food and grocery industry in Britain.
Plus why Lucy Kellaway doesn't Twitter on.
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