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SynapSense CEO On Wireless Sensors And Energy Efficiency

SynapSense CEO On Wireless Sensors And Energy Efficiency
Interview with Peter Vandeventer, CEO of SynapSense, a company developing sensors to help keep data centers on the cool side. ...

Oregon’s Clean Tech Industry Gets Showcased At InnoTech

Oregon’s Clean Tech Industry Gets Showcased At InnoTech
On April 16, the Software Association of Oregon is hosting a full-day Clean Tech event as part ...

IBM Unveils Green Hydro-Cluster Supercomputer

IBM Unveils Green Hydro-Cluster Supercomputer
IBM has unveiled a new supercomputer, the Power (or Hydro-Cluster) 575, which can provide five times the performance of its predecessor on ...

Konica Minolta Reaches Zero-Emissions Goal

Konica Minolta Reaches Zero-Emissions Goal
Konica Minolta Group has achieved "Level 2 zero emissions" at all of its 15 production bases in Japan, Tech-On ...

Apple Challenges NYC’s Green Logo

Apple Challenges NYC’s Green Logo
Apple has filed a formal complaint (PDF) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office opposing the "GreeNYC" logo ...

HP Releases CSR Report, List Of Suppliers

HP Releases CSR Report, List Of Suppliers
HP has issued its 2007 Global Citizenship Report and a list of its largest suppliers. According to the report, ...

Dell Powers Headquarters With Green Energy

Dell Powers Headquarters With Green Energy
Dell is now powering 100 percent of its 2.1 million square-foot global headquarters campus with 100 percent green power, ...

HP Scores Another EPEAT First

HP Scores Another EPEAT First
HP's entire personal workstation line has become the first in the category to achieve a “Gold” listing in the Electronic Products ...

EPA Temporarily Bars IBM From New Federal Contracts

EPA Temporarily Bars IBM From New Federal Contracts
IBM has been temporarily barred from receiving contracts with all federal agencies while the Environmental Protection Agency reviews concerns raised about potential ...

‘You Already Have An Eco Job!’

‘You Already Have An Eco Job!’
It seems like every week I get a request from someone at Sun who wants to join our Eco Responsibility team. ...

Google’s Black Earth Hour Homepage May Burn More Energy

Google’s Black Earth Hour Homepage May Burn More Energy
Google has turned its simple white homepage black Saturday in support of Earth Hour - U.S. surfers only. Below ...

Thin Clients Trump PCs On Energy Consumption

Thin Clients Trump PCs On Energy Consumption
The choice of thin clients over PCs on the business desktop has reduced CO2 emissions in Western Europe by 166,000 tonnes in ...

Sam’s Club Sells Plant A Tree Program For Dell

Sam’s Club Sells Plant A Tree Program For Dell
Customers buying a Dell computer at samsclub.com can now pay $2 for a laptop and $6 for a desktop to help offset ...

Microsoft ‘Green’ Campaign Has Nothing To Do With Environment

Microsoft ‘Green’ Campaign Has Nothing To Do With Environment
At a time when the word "green" is synonymous with helping the environment, Microsoft has launched a new marketing ...

Xerox Unveils Sustainability Calculator For Office Tech

Xerox Unveils Sustainability Calculator For Office Tech
Xerox has launched a sustainability calculator that measures the overall impact a company's printers and copiers have on the environment. It ...

Buy Back Programs Offer New Angle On Electronics Recycling

Buy Back Programs Offer New Angle On Electronics Recycling
NEW Customer Service will soon roll its ecoNEW electronics buy back program to electronic retailers nationwide, CNET ...

How Recycling Helps Fight Climate Change

How Recycling Helps Fight Climate Change
In this first in a series of "5 Things You Should Know about Climate Change" on EnviroTV, Green Canary Sustainability CEO ...

WOM Could Unlock $104 Billion In Green Technology Sales

WOM Could Unlock $104 Billion In Green Technology Sales
Americans' appetite for environmentally friendly technologies and consumer products is grossly underserved, with a potential $104 billion in sales ...

Software Calculates Carbon Footprint What-Ifs

Software Calculates Carbon Footprint What-Ifs
ILOG has released a Carbon Footprint extension to its LogicNet Plus XE supply-chain application, InfoWorld reports. The software can map out several ...

Samsung, Toshiba Top Greenpeace Electronics Guide - Nintendo In Basement

Samsung, Toshiba Top Greenpeace Electronics Guide - Nintendo In Basement
Samsung and Toshiba share the top spot in the latest edition of Greenpeace's quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics (PDF). Nokia missed ...

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Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
Belief In Global Warming Slips

Belief In Global Warming Slips

The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased since January 2007, mostly because of a decline ...

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Big companies are pushing research to bring greener products to market, according to this CNN video....

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

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