Doug Neal is a research fellow for the Leading Edge forum and he addressed the it@cork Green IT conference on moving beyond the 2% solution.

Chris Tuppen is BT’s Director of Sustainability. He addressed the it@cork conference talking about the Smart2020 report.

Great video of John Holdren (Barack Obama’s choice for Science Advisor) addressing the American Response to Climate Change Conference at The Wild Center in Tupper Lake New York June 25 & 26, 2008 www.usclimateaction.org Video copyright of, and courtesy of American Response to Climate Change Conference (www.usclimateaction.org)

During the Telelogic User Group conference down here in Austin I talked with IBM's Neeraj Chandr. We started out talking briefly about the conference itself, specifically Neeraj's keynote. We then talk about the mingling road-maps of the Telelogic and Rational product lines now that they're under one roof.

You may also remember Neeraj from our RSDC discussion, which is worth checking out if you're interested in this topic.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

While at the IBM Telelogic User Group in Austin, I had the chance to talk with IBM's Michael Lester, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Focal Point. More so than the core idea of product portfolio management (or, PPM), I ask Michael to tell us how products like Focal Point actually attache dollar signs to things like software all through-out the software life-cycle. That said, we do spend a good chunk of time detailing the inner-workings of a PPM product and what it does for an organization, especially when it comes to planning.

Naturally, Telelogic being part of IBM Rational now, we wrap-up by discussing how Focal Point will fit into the Rational portfolio.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

While at the IBM Telelogic User Group meeting in Austin, I had the chance to with Dominic Tavassoli. We spent our time talking about "the software delivery platform." What this means is the collection of processes and tools you'd use to take software from conception, to development, to testing, to release, and back through again. Sort of a "backbone" for the application life-cycle management an organization does. There's also documenting, best practices, and compliance to industry processes and standards to worry about.

As with most Telelogic discussions what's interesting here is to see how these ideas apply to systems programming – where software is usually running in/on a device other than a traditional computer – and how that changes the needs and the desires.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

In this video from the 2008 Telelogic user group meeting, I talk with IBM's Martin Owen. The broad-topic is a discuss using Enterprise Architecture and how it relates to "business/IT alignment." The nitty-gritty gets down to oing lots of reporting, metrics, and telling people what you're up to. Here, the important thing is tailoring your communication to your audience – tech-jargon or biz-speak, depending on which one you're addressing. And how to go in and apply this: baby steps, incremental ROI, and more.

If you like this topic, you'll probably also like my Recession-proof SOA Talk.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

While at IBM Software Connect – IBM's annual analyst summit for the software group – James had the chance to talk with IBM's Karen Parrish.

The main focus of the event was IBM's Industry Solution Frameworks and how IBM uses them to with customers. Karen starts telling us about the frameworks and how IBM builds up the program. James then asks several "how's that work?" questions to drive into the details.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this podcast.

GreenMonk talks batteries and sustainability with Dr Christina Lampe-Onnerud, founder and CEO of Boston Power

The average European creates 10 tonnes of CO2 per annum. The average American, 20 tonnes. To avert the dangers of Climate Change, we need to drop our CO2 production to 1 tonne per person. Problem: What is 1 tonne of CO2? How do you visualise it? Answer: You don’t! You change the metric. 1 tonne = 1 person’s annual CO2 production. 1 average person. 1 Tom. Because it’s not about saving tonnes, it’s about saving everyone. For example, a 15 minute shower is 0.1% of a Tom, driving 100 miles in a standard car is 4% of a Tom and producing 1 laptop computer is 45% of a Tom. How many Toms have you consumed? Don’t waste your Toms. Save Toms, not tonnes!