Hi-Tech
AMD Beats Climate Goal, But Water Use Rises
AMD 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 ...
Kaiser Says Electronic Health Records Lower CO2 Emissions
Kaiser 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 ...
Electronics Giants Pledge to Recycle a Billion Pounds
Executives from Best Buy, Panasonic, Sony and Toshiba have helped to launch an industry-wide initiative to recycle one billion pounds of electronics a ...
Facebook Data Center Slashes Energy Use
Facebook has unveiled a green data center that it says uses 38 percent less energy to do the same work as its ...
Apple Finds the Environmental Benefit in Aluminum
Apple’s use of aluminum cases has made a significant contribution to the company’s environmental efforts, helping it to far surpass its ...
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 ...
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 ...
NAEM Conference: Intel Launches Live Video, Real-Time Emissions Metrics for Public
Intel has launched a public website, complete with a live video feed, to inform New Mexico residents about plant emissions levels, an Intel staffer ...
Alcoa Buys $10m Stake in E-Waste Firm ERI
Aluminum heavyweight Alcoa is investing $10 million in Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), one of the nation’s biggest collectors of e-waste.
The two companies ...
AMD to Cut One Fifth of Water by 2014
Semiconductor company AMD aims to reduce water use 20 percent and Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions five percent by 2014, based on ...
Hitachi Wins Ethical Certification
Hitachi Data Systems has earned an Ethics Inside Certification from the think-tank Ethisphere Institute.
Hitachi won the mark by going beyond legal requirements to ...
Lenovo Secures First Gold Laptop Certification
Lenovo has become the first company to earn the highest rating in the ...
Panasonic Unveils Environmental Goals for North America
Panasonic Corporation of North America has unveiled several new environmental initiatives for its North America operations in an Eco Ideas Declaration which includes specific ...
Poor Economy Helps Xerox Advance on Sustainability Targets
Xerox has released its 2010 Report on Global Citizenship Summary and 2010 Environmental Health & Safety Report, which together provide environmental overview ...
Nintendo Wii EPRI’s Choice for Energy Efficiency
Researchers at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) tested three top-selling game console systems in active mode and found that the Nintendo Wii system ...
Dell Touts Energy Efficiency of Products
Dell 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 ...
Carbon Footprint of an IBM Server: Measuring the Yardstick
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have taken on the task of walking a mile in the shoes of Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) measurement standards, in the ...
AT&T, Cisco Appointed to Green Shell’s IT
Shell 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 ...
Cloud Computing Could Cut Data Center Energy Use 38% by 2020
The adoption of cloud computing will lead to a 38% reduction in worldwide data center energy expenditures by 2020, compared to a business as usual ...
Oracle Makes Dismal Debut in Greenpeace IT Rankings
Oracle 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 ...
