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 07.31.08 

Because I've been under a rock for...the last 6 years...I didn't know I could follow friends on del.icio.us (nee delicious). What's everyone's username?
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 07.29.08 

Driving home from a visit with the family on Sunday, I got a chance to catch up on some listening. This episode of This American Life was one of the sweetest and saddest I'd heard in a while. Act 1 and Act 2 really got me with a sad-sack-sucker-punch.
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 07.23.08 

There's an article over at Ars Technica about how companies will have to react in order to manage organizational carbon emissions. Specifically, the article discusses findings from a joint report by the Carbon Disclosure Project and IBM:
The vagueness of "green" terminology is largely a byproduct of the fact that the information-gathering process isn't currently defined by government regulation; so in the absence of a single set of legislatively-defined metrics, companies are left to come up with their own metrics and to label them however they like.
And from the report itself, an idea of the role that will need to be filled within large companies to oversee this process of analysis and management:
"[This will involve] a surprising level of detailed understanding of business operations—for example, understanding the impact of a refrigerator that isn't working properly or a pump that doesn't get maintained [...] Or appreciating the challenges of 20-year-old lighting or the spikes in emissions due to seasonal production."
The article goes on to question whether and how companies will embrace the added overhead and bureaucracy that will surely come with the regulation that will itself surely come. Both are valid questions, but what I wonder is where this expertise will come from? There is certainly a fast-growing cottage industry around this kind of work. And current corporate aptitude for regulation analysis and management will contribute as well. But where will all of these "carbon managers" come from? And who should I send my resume to?
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