Sentilla Blog

Hello, I'm Spence Murray, a member of the Sentilla Server Engineering team. My responsibilities include design and development of core networking and data management technologies for Sentilla Energy Manager. Having been involved in the project since its inception, I've had the pleasure of seeing it evolve into a very useful tool for both energy and network management.

First off, I'd like to congratulate our CTO, Joe Polastre, on his recent selection as a one of BusinessWeek's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2009. This award is indicative of the growing buzz Sentilla Energy Manager is generating.

When I attended the Sustainable Industries Economic Forum last October, there was a pervasive excitement for a bright future---ballasted by so-called Green Jobs. The keynote speaker Van Jones, as well as a number of other speakers in the forum, spoke of the new "Green-Collar economy," in which unemployment is all but eliminated since everyone is going to be retro-fitting old buildings, inventing new technologies, and analyzing energy consumption.

At the polar opposite of the spectrum, we have some members of congress who have recently commented on such green jobs, calling them "artificial." The crux of their argument is that proponents of green jobs are trying to create jobs out of thin air, where labor is not really needed, under a thin guise of environmental responsibility.