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EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

xChange Point, a system that allows companies to track their energy usage and CO2 emissions at the product level, ...

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010
Dell announced plans to reduce the energy consumption of its products and avoid millions of tons of CO2 ...

HP Exec On Product Takeback

HP Exec On Product Takeback
Renee St. Denis discusses how Hewlett-Packard's corporate processes and design strategies have evolved in dealing with e-waste, or outdated and discarded PCs, ...

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 ...

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint
Academics and researchers from Intel and Microsoft are putting the Internet under the microscope, developing strategies to cut the ...

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012
The rapidly increasing demand for digital processing for everything from online banking to e-Bay auctions, Amazon orders, Google searches, and iTunes and ...

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste
In its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report Motorola, Inc. highlights actions the company has taken on social, accountability and ...

IBM Develops Datacenter Energy Reduction Software, Strategies

IBM Develops Datacenter Energy Reduction Software, Strategies
IBM announced new energy-management software, an expansion of its energy certificates program, and an energy benchmark to help ...

Sun, UPS, Nationwide, HP Among Uptime Green IT Award Winners

Sun, UPS, Nationwide, HP Among Uptime Green IT Award Winners
The Uptime Institute, a research-based think-tank and advisor on business and technology issues related to computing and energy efficiency, ...

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
At Yahoo! headquarters, we recently installed an interactive touch screen next to our corporate cafeteria. The Green Screen, as we fondly ...

Sony Pictures Chooses 365 Main’s Renewable Energy Program

Sony Pictures Chooses 365 Main’s Renewable Energy Program
Sony Pictures Entertainment has become the first customer of data center operator 365 Main to sign up for ...

Microsoft: Code Green

Microsoft: Code Green
Microsoft plans to work more closely with independent software developers to help the company build applications that don't draw ...

Does More E-mail = Less Carbon?

Does More E-mail = Less Carbon?
Research currently underway at Sun Microsystems is trying to measure the carbon footprint of individual e-mails, BusinessGreen reports. The aim of the ...

Softchoice Launches First Searchable Online ‘Green’ IT Product Listing

Softchoice Launches First Searchable Online ‘Green’ IT Product Listing
Softchoice has announced a new initiative to simplify the selection and acquisition of today's greenest information technology products. IT purchasers ...

Green 15 - InfoWorld Picks Top Green IT Leaders

Green 15 - InfoWorld Picks Top Green IT Leaders
InfoWorld has unveiled its selections for the Green 15 awards. Recipients are organizations that have made significant ...

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls
Fifty-one percent of companies have a green data center strategy, according to a Digital Realty Trust survey of ...

Google, Others Give eSolar $130 Million Boost

Google, Others Give eSolar $130 Million Boost
eSolar has closed $130 million in funding from Idealab, Google.org, Oak Investment Partners, and other investors for the ...

Verizon Uses Software, Thin Clients To Cut Energy Consumption

Verizon Uses Software, Thin Clients To Cut Energy Consumption
Over the past year, Verizon Wireless has deployed 1E WakeUp, which ensures that all PCs, whether on or off, ...

HP Packaging To Carry EPA SmartWay Logo

HP Packaging To Carry EPA SmartWay Logo
HP is the first company to receive approval from the U.S. EPA to have the agency's SmartWay logo displayed ...

How To Green Your Desktop Systems And Monitors

How To Green Your Desktop Systems And Monitors
Here are some green tips from InfoWorld to consider before your next system refresh. 1. Higher-end systems with more ...

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Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Comments on the Language of Marketing Sustainability. In today's culture of over-parsed lexicon, where we argue the meaning of ... continue »

Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
Environmental Compliance: Initiatives Broaden, Budgets Up - Complete Apps Still Few in Number
Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green

Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green

According to a green survey from Rackspace Hosting (PDF), 44 percent of respondents are willing to pay more for green products ...

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EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
Most Americans Have Made Lifestyle Changes To Help The Environment
Climate Change And Public Health

Climate Change And Public Health

Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, M.D. is interviewed by EnviroTV about the connection between climate change and public health....

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Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
Stern Helps Launch New Carbon Ratings Agency
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Canada Ad Watchdog Releases Green Marketing Guidelines

Emissions

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Wal-Mart’s New Milk Jug Cuts Costs, Customers Cry Over Spilt Milk

Hi-Tech

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Sony At Top, Nintendo, MS At Bottom Of Greenpeace Electronics Rankings

Efficiency

Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips

AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education

Harvard, Yale, Others Embrace Green Design

Manufacturing

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

Maintaining Product Quality Alongside Environmental Performance

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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