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CDW’s Wisconsin Hosting Centers Go Green

CDW’s Wisconsin Hosting Centers Go Green
Illinois-based CDW is turning two of its hosting centers green. The Wisconsin hosting centers, totaling 10,500 square feet, will now ...

Johnson Controls, IBM Develop Software For Data Center Management

Johnson Controls, IBM Develop Software For Data Center Management
Johnson Controls, a Milwaukee-based energy optimization company, is integrating IBM's data center energy management capabilities with its own ...

Microsoft Pays Employees For Energy Efficiency Improvements

Microsoft Pays Employees For Energy Efficiency Improvements
Microsoft has introduced employee incentives to improve energy efficiency and it's paying off. From 2004 to 2007, Microsoft saw ...

Deloitte Turns To Video Conferencing To Cut Costs, Carbon Footprint

Deloitte Turns To Video Conferencing To Cut Costs, Carbon Footprint
Deloitte's global organization and as many as 130 Deloitte member firm locations around the world are installing video conferencing ...

NEC’s New Display Comes With Carbon Meter

NEC’s New Display Comes With Carbon Meter
NEC 's recently launched MultiSync Enterprise Advanced Series of displays comes with a carbon meter. The first display released is the 26-inch ...

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Energy Star Rating For Servers Expected By Year’s End

Energy Star Rating For Servers Expected By Year’s End
The EPA plans to have its first Energy Star rating for servers ready by the end of the year, ...

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!
The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ...

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks
U.S. companies could have saved up to $46 million over the three-day Independence Day weekend, according to a ...

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

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000
Enterprise Rent-A-Car expects a move from PCs to HP thin clients will cut energy consumption by 5 million kilowatt-hours, ...

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2
Novomer, a company that makes biodegradable plastics, polymers and other chemicals from renewable substances, has announced its first product, ...

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

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’
According to a report from Accenture that analyzed results of case studies backed by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, ...

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

Sony At Top, Nintendo, MS At Bottom Of Greenpeace Electronics Rankings
In the 8th edition of "Guide to Greener Electronics" published by Greenpeace, only Sony and Sony Ericsson score ...

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 ...

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

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification
Dell says it's the first server provider to achieve 80 Plus Gold-certification for a server power supply. Dell says ...

Vendors Should Highlight Cost Savings Of Green IT

Vendors Should Highlight Cost Savings Of Green IT
GreenFactor's recent survey of IT decision makers found that more than 70 percent would either "'probably' or ...

Cisco To Cut GHG Emissions 25% By 2012

Cisco To Cut GHG Emissions 25% By 2012
Cisco has set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its worldwide operations by 25 percent over the next four years, ...

Smart 2020: IT Could Cut Global Emissions 15%, Saving $800 Billion

Smart 2020: IT Could Cut Global Emissions 15%, Saving $800 Billion
IT could reduce global emissions by 15 percent and save $800 billion annually by 2020, The Climate Group reports. "Smart 2020: Enabling ...

EPEAT Reports Large Environmental And Financial Benefits

EPEAT Reports Large Environmental And Financial Benefits
Worldwide sales of EPEAT products have increased 150 percent since 2006, when the EPEAT system was first introduced, ...

Lenovo Launches Asset Recovery Service

Lenovo Launches Asset Recovery Service
Lenovo is joining the growing number of companies offering asset recovery services to help cut down on e-waste. Lenovo ...

Environmental Compliance: Initiatives Broaden, Budgets Up - Complete Apps Still Few in Number

Environmental Compliance: Initiatives Broaden, Budgets Up - Complete Apps Still Few in Number
AMR Research published a Report last year on the landscape of available technology options for supporting environmental health and safety ...

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Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Green was an obvious color to hang the environmental renaissance on. It was a reclaiming of the old pejorative “greenies” and “treehuggers.” ... continue »

An Eco-Stimulus Package for Our Economy
Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession
California’s Leadership in 21st Century Energy Technology
Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Ninety-two percent of respondents to The Global Facility Management Association's recently released Green Practices Study (PDF) say that they are ...

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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
Consumers Loyal To Brands That Support Good Cause During Recession
‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Sit in on the Green Car of the Year Award presented at the 2008 LA Auto Show (via AutoNetwork)....

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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
California Clean Tech Open Awards
How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

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Marketing

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

Green Consumers Have Different Purchasing Motives

Emissions

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores

Hi-Tech

ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent

California Clean Tech Open Awards

Dell: OptiPlex Desktop Customers Cut 29 M Tons of CO2 Since 2005

Efficiency

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%

Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition

Manufacturing

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Mitsubishi Targets Sales Of $13.3 B From Cleantech Products

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

CSR Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Major Players

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

UPS Moves To Paperless Sorting Labels

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