Hi-Tech

EL Pro AMD Beats Climate Goal, But Water Use Rises

AMD Beats Climate Goal, But Water Use RisesAMD is on track or ahead of targets for greenhouse gas reduction, non-hazardous waste and non-manufacturing water use, but off-track of its manufacturing ...

May 6, 2011

Kaiser Says Electronic Health Records Lower CO2 Emissions

Kaiser Says Electronic Health Records Lower CO2 EmissionsKaiser Permanente, which operates the world’s largest private electronic health record, Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, estimates that EHR could lower carbon dioxide emissions by as much ...

May 4, 2011

Electronics Giants Pledge to Recycle a Billion Pounds

Electronics Giants Pledge to Recycle a Billion PoundsExecutives from Best Buy, Panasonic, Sony and Toshiba have helped to launch an industry-wide initiative to recycle one billion pounds of electronics a ...

April 13, 2011

Facebook Data Center Slashes Energy Use

Facebook Data Center Slashes Energy UseFacebook has unveiled a green data center that it says uses 38 percent less energy to do the same work as its ...

April 8, 2011

Apple Finds the Environmental Benefit in Aluminum

Apple Finds the Environmental Benefit in AluminumApple’s use of aluminum cases has made a significant contribution to the company’s environmental efforts, helping it to far surpass its ...

March 28, 2011

Panasonic Discusses Consumer Attitudes Towards Green Products

Panasonic Discusses Consumer Attitudes Towards Green Products Panasonic Managing Director, Steve Rust and Panasonic Chair in Environmental Sustainability, Professor Tim Flannery discussing the findings of Panasonic's recent white ...

March 17, 2011

Green Grid’s Executive Director on New Data Center Maturity Model

Green Grid’s Executive Director on New Data Center Maturity Model The Green Grid's executive director Mark Monroe tells DatacenterDynamics FOCUS what to expect from the organization's newly expanded ...

March 9, 2011

NAEM Conference: Intel Launches Live Video, Real-Time Emissions Metrics for Public

NAEM Conference: Intel Launches Live Video, Real-Time Emissions Metrics for PublicIntel has launched a public website, complete with a live video feed, to inform New Mexico residents about plant emissions levels, an Intel staffer ...

March 3, 2011

Alcoa Buys $10m Stake in E-Waste Firm ERI

Alcoa Buys $10m Stake in E-Waste Firm ERIAluminum heavyweight Alcoa is investing $10 million in Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), one of the nation’s biggest collectors of e-waste. The two companies ...

March 2, 2011

AMD to Cut One Fifth of Water by 2014

AMD to Cut One Fifth of Water by 2014Semiconductor company AMD aims to reduce water use 20 percent and Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions five percent by 2014, based on ...

February 18, 2011

Hitachi Wins Ethical Certification

Hitachi Wins Ethical CertificationHitachi Data Systems has earned an Ethics Inside Certification from the think-tank Ethisphere Institute. Hitachi won the mark by going beyond legal requirements to ...

February 16, 2011

Lenovo Secures First Gold Laptop Certification

Lenovo Secures First Gold Laptop Certification Lenovo has become the first company to earn the highest rating in the ...

February 15, 2011

Panasonic Unveils Environmental Goals for North America

Panasonic Unveils Environmental Goals for North AmericaPanasonic Corporation of North America has unveiled several new environmental initiatives for its North America operations in an Eco Ideas Declaration which includes specific ...

January 6, 2011

EL Pro Poor Economy Helps Xerox Advance on Sustainability Targets

Poor Economy Helps Xerox Advance on Sustainability TargetsXerox has released its  2010 Report on Global Citizenship Summary and 2010 Environmental Health & Safety Report, which together provide environmental overview ...

December 22, 2010

Nintendo Wii EPRI’s Choice for Energy Efficiency

Nintendo Wii EPRI’s Choice for Energy EfficiencyResearchers at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) tested three top-selling game console systems in active mode and found that the Nintendo Wii system ...

December 17, 2010

Dell Touts Energy Efficiency of Products

Dell Touts Energy Efficiency of ProductsDell says that since 2008, it has cut its customers’ laptop-, desktop-related energy costs by 25 percent or more. The company achieved this by integrating ...

December 16, 2010

Carbon Footprint of an IBM Server: Measuring the Yardstick

Carbon Footprint of an IBM Server: Measuring the YardstickResearchers at Carnegie Mellon have taken on the task of walking a mile in the shoes of Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) measurement standards, in the ...

December 15, 2010

AT&T, Cisco Appointed to Green Shell’s IT

AT&T, Cisco Appointed to Green Shell’s ITShell has selected AT&T and Cisco to assess the energy efficiency of the oil and gas giant’s IT infrastructure. The telecoms and networking companies will calculate ...

December 8, 2010

Cloud Computing Could Cut Data Center Energy Use 38% by 2020

Cloud Computing Could Cut Data Center Energy Use 38% by 2020The adoption of cloud computing will lead to a 38% reduction in worldwide data center energy expenditures by 2020, compared to a business as usual ...

December 8, 2010

Oracle Makes Dismal Debut in Greenpeace IT Rankings

Oracle Makes Dismal Debut in Greenpeace IT RankingsOracle has debuted in last place on Greenpeace’s semi-annual rankings of IT companies’ efforts to fight climate change. The hardware and software company scored just ...

December 8, 2010