Green post production solutions will be a subject at the Paris Images Digital Summit (PIDS) that takes places from January 25 to 28 in Paris. The new event that is launched by the Ile de France Film Commission is dedicated … Read more
Category Archives: IT
CCC: Saving the World with (Vegan) Science
At the 33rd edition of the Chaos Communication Congress which takes place from December 27 to 30 in Hamburg, biohacking is also an issue that will be discussed by the hacker community. PhD chemist Benjamin Rupert who has worked on … Read more
Green IT at Siggraph
French computing company Qarnot Computing is presenting its HPC cloud service at the Siggraph in Anaheim, California, that is kicking off today. Qarnot developed a green IT solution that makes it possible to heat homes and offices with firms’ computation. … Read more
Heating with the hot spot
In energy-consuming data centers, more than a third of the electricity is used to cool processing units. With Q.rad, Paris-based IT outfit Qarnot computing developed a smart green processing solution. The innovative heating technology uses processing units as a … Read more
Support for sustainable solutions
The French film funding institution Centre National du Cinéma (CNC) launched a new initiative in 2014 to support sustainable solutions that is gradually gaining recognition in the French Film / TV industry. The green grants are part of CNC’s program, … Read more
Economically as well as ecologically efficient
At French public broadcaster France Télévisions, going green is taken seriously. By 2020, the TV production group will cut 8% of its carbon emissions. Sophie Delorme, corporate responsibility and sustainability manager, gives an insight into the transition to sustainability.… Read more
Sleeping servers
30 percent of servers in the data centers all over the world are “comatose” but still drawing significant amounts of power. This insight is given by professor Jonathan Koomey who is a a Research Fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center for … Read more
American Business Act on Climate Pledge
This time, it is not a fraud by The Yes Men. Computer companies and internet giants such as Apple, Google and Microsoft are among the 13 major U.S. corporations which announced to invest at least $140 billion in … Read more
Green Shooting Card for Berlinale film Däwit
The sustainable produced animated movie Däwit which celebrated its world premiere at the short film competition of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival was awarded with a Green Shooting Card by the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
The animated short film … Read more
Built to last
The promise of using a portable digital device anywhere, anytime, hits a wall whenever the battery usage indicator approaches zero. That‘s the reality of it. But here comes the SOL laptop, which never needs to be plugged in for recharging. … Read more