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Architect Norman Foster On Green Design

Architect Norman Foster On Green Design
Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically ...

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 ...

Number Of People Who Expect Severe Climate Change Shrinking

Number Of People Who Expect Severe Climate Change Shrinking
As the nation gets ready to celebrate Earth Day 2008, attitudes towards global warming are little changed from last year. Sixty-seven percent ...

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, ...

Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks

Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks
Volvo is testing two hybrid refuse trucks in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells. The hybrid ...

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 ...

65% Of U.S. Consumers Will Pay More For Renewably Sourced Products

65% Of U.S. Consumers Will Pay More For Renewably Sourced Products
Nearly seven out of 10 U.S. consumers are willing to pay more for products made with renewable resources, according to a ...

Corporate Energy Efficiency Awareness Up, Spending Flat

Corporate Energy Efficiency Awareness Up, Spending Flat
Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of organizations are paying more attention to energy efficiency than they were just a year ...

Sony Recycling Pays off

Sony Recycling Pays off
Sony is gathering the plastic shells of old Sony TVs from recycling plants, collecting excess Styrofoam from its production ...

Sun Unveils Next Generation CMT Energy Efficient Server

Sun Unveils Next Generation CMT Energy Efficient Server
Sun has announced the next generation of Niagara, its CMT energy efficient server. The new CMT SPARC Enterprise T5140 and ...

Nike Readies Blueprint For Energy Efficient Factories

Nike Readies Blueprint For Energy Efficient Factories
As part of an energy-efficiency project (PDF) aimed at reducing energy consumption within its footwear contract manufacturing base, Nike says that ...

Toxic 100 Fingers DuPont As Top Polluter

Toxic 100 Fingers DuPont As Top Polluter
DuPont heads this year's Toxic 100, a list of the top corporate air polluters in the U.S. from ...

Specific User Benefits Sell Eco-Friendly Products

Specific User Benefits Sell Eco-Friendly Products
When choosing between two similar products, 83 percent of consumers are extremely or very likely to choose the environmentally friendly option, according ...

New CO2 Maps Offer Unprecedented Detail

New CO2 Maps Offer Unprecedented Detail
A new map offers more than 100 times the detail of previous inventories of carbon dioxide. The map, from Vulcan, a ...

Green IT Loses Believers

Green IT Loses Believers
There was an interesting turn in opinion about green IT at Gartner's Emerging Trends Symposium/ITxpo. Attendees at last week's ...

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 ...

South Lags Behind Rest Of US On Hybrid Car Interest

South Lags Behind Rest Of US On Hybrid Car Interest
Fifty-nine percent of car shoppers have purchased or would consider purchasing a hybrid as their next car, according to a survey by ...

Today's News

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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