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eBay to Emit 15% Fewer GHGs by 2012
E-commerce powerhouse eBay plans to reduce its 2012 greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent, when compared to its 2008 emissions. This news ...
AT&T Top ‘Green’ Mobile Carrier in North America
A new scorecard puts AT&T, Sprint/Nextel and Verizon as the No. 1, 2 and 3 mobile carriers in North America, when judged ...
Dell’s Director of Sustainability on CSR Reporting
Tod Arbogast, Director of Sustainability at Dell, talks about the company's most recent ...
Energy-saving Server Virtualization Adoption Reaches 46%
With companies facing depressed bottom lines, IT departments are finding ways to cut power use as a means of improving corporate financial performance. About 35 percent of ...
Desktop Computing Power Savings on the Rise
In a year-to-year comparison, IT managers note that the use of power management tools and manual shut-downs of equipment during extended non-use periods are rising. Also, about 57 percent of IT managers purchase Energy Star devices ...
Google Plans Own Solar Technology
Google is devising a solar game changer that will enable the company to more quickly adopt renewable energy, and much less expensively. Much ...
EPA Ups Ante for Energy Star TVs
To gain an Energy Star rating, TVs next year must be 40 percent more efficient than standard models. The new requirements take effect May 1, 2010. The ...
Apple’s New OS Could Save $10 million Annually in Energy
Apple computer users who upgrade to the Snow Leopard operating system can expect to save about 10 percent in electricity a year. Considering Apple's annual sales ...
Citing Cost, Firms De-emphasize Energy Efficiency in IT Purchases
Focusing on short-term cost reductions, companies increasingly are overlooking the promise of long-term savings that come with more expensive but more energy efficient computer equipment. Instead, firms ...
Chipmaker AMD to Reduce Emissions 33% by 2011
Already having reduced emissions 6 percent from 2007 to 2008, AMD plans to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 33 percent by 2011. At the company's ...
Dell Cuts GHG Emissions Intensity 18%
Dell has cut both its overall GHG emissions and its scope 1 and 2 emissions as a percentage of revenue (see above chart), according to its ...
Amidst Record Revenues, LG Slashes Corporate Emissions 8%
LG reduced 2008 greenhouse gas emissions 8.1 percent at its corporate operations in Korea, with scope 1 emissions falling from 13.2 percent of the total to ...
Clean Energy Patents Hit New Quarterly Record
As a sign that companies once again view clean tech as a solid investment, a quarterly record of 274 U.S. clean energy patents were granted in ...
Broadband, Wireless Services to Play Vital Role in Smart Grid
While Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm are starting a new joint venture to provide machine-to-machine (M2) wireless communications and smart services to a wide range of markets ...
Dell Cuts Power Use by 48M KWH, Saves $5.8M
Dell expects to save about $5.8 million a year as a result of energy-saving initiatives and building upgrades in its facilities worldwide. The computer maker expects ...
ACT Data Center Passes LEED Platinum Test
If there's one thing the people at ACT know, it's how to take a test. When it came to making the grade for a new data ...
Sprint Supports Smart Grid Initiatives
Driven in part by the Obama Administration's focus on energy independence and smart-grid initiatives, Sprint is now strengthening its portfolio to supply electric utilities with advanced ...
EPEAT Registry Goes Global
A registry that rates computer desktops, laptops and monitors by their energy efficiency and other environmental measures now has been synchronized with the equipment that is ...
Intel Uses Facebook App to Help Power Climate Research
Facebook users who acquiesce to an Intel application that operates on idle computer power are helping researchers conduct models on climate change and other global problems. The ...
Nations to be Graded on Ability of ICT to Cut Emissions
A new grading system will look at nations' information and communications technology (ICT) abilities as they relate to the ability to cut emissions. The grading system, being ...
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