Business Services

Autodesk, Tririga Race to Give Away Software

Two separate announcements signal the willingness of software providers to gain market share for their clean tech and carbon tracking software - even if that means ...

Software Solutions Ease Sustainability Management and Reporting

As more companies face the daunting task of reporting on a variety of environmental performance criteria, they will be getting a helping hand thanks to a ...

Lack of Guidance, Metrics, Incentives Impede Environmental Cleanup

Aimed at site owners, remediation businesses and other industry services providers, the Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF) has released a white paper that delivers an ...

Stimulus Funds Boost Trane’s Energy-Efficiency Business

Aimed at lowering the amount of energy needed to power the blowers and distributors of commercial and institutional air conditioning systems, Trane has rolled out its ...

Carbon Management Drives Need for New Business Solution

A new information systems category, Carbon Management Solutions (CMS), is rapidly emerging as businesses try to understand their carbon footprint and the importance of carbon as an ...

Paper-saving Software Proliferates

The release of the newest version of a paper-saving software follows on the heels of a Blackberry application for calculating the eco-footprint of paper ordering. GreenPrint Version ...

Point Carbon Pushes Into North America

Point Carbon, a leading energy and environmental market analysis firm, has launched its first power trading analytics tool for the North America market. This Web based ...

Green Buildings – Boon or Liability?

Much hay has been made about the benefits of green building. However, a recent report from Harvard Law School points to potential liability issues with ...

Save Money by Monitoring Resource Consumption

Startup Hara Software Inc. has rolled out its software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that can help companies save millions of dollars by enabling them to monitor and manage ...

Renewable Energy Standard May Save $200B In Annual Energy

Energy efficiency and renewable energy standards could save U.S. consumers $200 billion a year by 2030. There also is an equal opportunity for the commercial and industrial ...

LA Office Towers Achieve Existing Building Gold LEED Status

Watt Plaza, a complex of two 23-story office towers in Century City, Calif., is the first Los Angeles-area office building to achieve Gold ...

IBM, Ricoh Expand Sustainable Printer Offerings

InfoPrint, a joint venture of IBM and Ricoh, has launched a new series of color printer with enhanced sustainability features. The new printers feature standard duplex printing ...

Web Tool Analyzes Sustainability Strategies

A new software tool evaluates greenhouse gas emissions, carbon footprint and baseline energy use to help companies and organizations analyze their sustainability strategies. The Web-based TEAL ...

European Climate Exchange Foresees Carbon Trade Doubling

European Climate Exchange says it expects the amount the amount of carbon credits traded on its platform to double this year. European Climate Exchange expects the volume ...

SAP to Acquire Clear Standards, Gains Carbon Mgmt Product

SAP plans to acquire Clear Standards, a privately held enterprise carbon management solutions provider that helps companies track and report greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts through a web-based system. With the move, ...

Cleantech VC Investment Down 63%

Feeling the pinch of the global economic turndown, U.S. cleantech companies saw venture capital investment of $277 million for the first quarter of 2009, a drop ...

Xerox Solid Ink Printer Cuts Waste 90%, Energy Use 9%

Xerox Corp.'s new high-speed solid ink multifunction printer reduces the environmental impact of office printing, with a cartridge-free design that generates 90 percent less supplies waste ...

FedEx Plans to Use 30% Biofuels by 2030

By 2030, FedEx plans to obtain 30 percent of its fuel from biodiesel, ethanol and other second-generation biofuels. The biodiesel would be derived from jatropha and the ...

The Key to Major Data Center Savings? Concrete Floors

By simply using concrete floors and an overhead cooling system, it has been found that a company can gain IT data center energy efficiency. Because such a ...

Device Lets Computers ‘Sleep’ Yet Function, Saves 80% Energy

A new computer device promises to gain the efficiency of letting a computer "sleep" yet still allow it to perform some basic functions like instant messaging ...