Jan 29, 2023 | Business
Puppet City Tours, a new tour operator, continues to expand with a new tour schedule for the Downtown District in Music City. The company brings puppetry, storytelling, and history together for a sightseeing walking tour. Weekly tours start on Thursday, April 6, and will continue through to the end of August. All guests on tour in April and May will receive a free finger puppet for participating on the tour.
“Our tours are now available for bookings as folks start to plan their summer vacations,” said Puppet City Tours Owner and Puppeteer Joshua Sellers. “We are excited to see more and more families who are choosing to visit Nashville and we plan to show them our sights.”
Now through May, guests who book a tour in either April or May will receive a finger puppet to take along with them on tour and back home. Booking reservations are now open on the company’s page at www.puppetcitytours.com.
The summer schedule starting on April 6 will host at least 3 tours weekly on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 1:00 pm. The weekly tours will continue until the end of August to accommodate families visiting Nashville during summer break from school.
Puppet City Tours features thoughtfully crafted stories based on local history and landmarks. The guide uses puppetry to engage every guest. The puppet actually acts as the local tour guide. The tour is an hour walking tour with several stops that include The Tennessee Capitol, Downtown Presbyterian Church, and the Ryman Auditorium. The tour moves at an easy pace. Puppet City Tours explores the unique stories that Nashville has to offer this summer.
About Puppet City Tours
Puppet City Tours is a sightseeing guided walking tour in Nashville with puppetry and storytelling for tourists and locals. It is owned and operated by Joshua Sellers and Casey Peavey and with experienced local tour guides and professional puppeteers.
For booking availability, private tours, and special events, please visit www.puppetcitytours.com.
Oct 9, 2021 | Business
Fujitsu has announced that from October 7 it will begin to provide free assessments to its customers considering the use of its FUJITSU Hybrid IT Service FJcloud, etc. in their digital transformation projects, demonstrating changes to CO2 emissions resulting from the migration of IT systems to the cloud.
Fujitsu will offer a visualization of the CO2 emissions and power consumption of current IT systems against the use of FJcloud, for example, for its customers with on-premises IT systems, which have issues of balancing business growth and the ability to contribute to sustainability. This will empower customers to make the choice of their next IT platform with greater insight into both the overall cost as well as ability to contribute to decarbonization.
Through this initiative, Fujitsu ultimately aims to contribute to the optimization of its customers’ IT systems by guiding them to utilize the cloud, as well as to the realization of a sustainable society through reducing the carbon footprint of business.
IT-related power consumption in Japan projected to increase exponentially by 2030
In recent years, efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote the use of renewable energy sources have intensified as stakeholders throughout society work to achieve the ambitious global targets set out in the Paris Agreement and the SDGs–companies around the world must also play a more aggressive role in tackling the existential threat posed by climate change. According to the Green Growth Strategy (1) outlined by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as a part of its efforts to realize carbon neutrality, IT-related power consumption, including from servers and network equipment, accounted for approximately 4% of Japan’s total power consumption in 2016. Estimates indicate that this figure will balloon to more than 36 times by 2030, presenting an urgent challenge to companies to reduce the power consumption of their IT systems to contribute to the realization of a carbon-free society.
Fujitsu has been actively working to reduce its power consumption and continuously improving the energy efficiency of its operations, including through the use of novel techniques for cooling systems using outside air cooling and optimizing cooling efficiency by controlling air conditioning equipment using AI in its FJcloud data centers in Japan. Fujitsu has pledged that by FY 2022 it will achieve decarbonization of its FJcloud, sourcing 100% of the electricity required for of its operations from renewable energy.
In addition to these efforts, Fujitsu will also strive to accelerate the decarbonization of its customers’ IT systems, developing assessment tools to visualize the CO2 emissions and power consumption of our customers’ IT systems, and will start providing assessments to customers free of charge on October 7, 2021.
The assessment identifies the amount of power that the customer is using through interviews with stakeholders or direct measurements of IT systems in actual use and calculates the current amount of CO2 emissions and power consumption by inputting data into a dedicated assessment tool that sets PUE (2) values, etc. Then Fujitsu visualizes and presents comparison results to the customer demonstrating potential improvements to PUE through the use of FJcloud, etc. and proposes a cloud migration strategy best suited to the customer. This allows customers to take both total cost of IT systems as well as offers a clear path to decarbonization.
The highly energy efficient FUJITSU Hybrid IT Service offers customers the ability to reduce CO2 emissions by more than 30% compared to their existing systems.
Going forward, Fujitsu will continue to strengthen its capabilities and capacity to support the optimization and decarbonization of IT systems for more customers, as well as its contributions to the achievement of the SDGs, playing an active role in addressing climate change and realizing a sustainable society.
(1) Green Growth Strategy through Achieving Carbon Neutrality in 2050:
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) strategy for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, initially announced in December 2020 and subsequently updated.
https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2021/0618_002.html
(2) PUE:
Power Usage Effectiveness. A measure of the power efficiency of a data center. The power consumption of the entire data center divided by the power consumption of ICT equipment such as servers. The closer to 1.0, the more efficient it is.
Fujitsu’s Commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015 represent a set of common goals to be achieved worldwide by 2030. Fujitsu’s purpose — “to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation”–is a promise to contribute to the vision of a better future empowered by the SDGs.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 126,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 3.6 trillion yen (US$34 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021. For more information, please see www.fujitsu.com.
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