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Facebook Caves to Greenpeace, Plans to Run on ‘Clean, Renewable Energy’

After months of being bashed by Greenpeace (what Facebook now calls a “unique and creative campaign”) over its environmental practices – specifically the use of coal power to fire up its data centers – Facebook has announced, in a joint statement with the activist group, that it plans to run ... Read more »

Amazon to Triple ‘Frustration-Free Packaging’ Shipments

Amazon aims to triple the number of items shipped under its “Frustration-Free Packaging” initiative next year, BusinessWeek reports. Amazon kicked off the program, which pushes suppliers to cut out excessive and hard-to-open packaging such as plastic clamshells and plastic-coated wire ties, in 2008. The initiative began with 19 items from ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Coins, Organics Vote, LEED

The U.S. Mint announced that its West Point, N.Y., facility has been accepted in the Energy Department’s Superior Energy Performance program, just one of the steps the bureau said it is taking to “‘green’ the production of America’s coins, Reuters reported. The Superior Energy Performance project is a certification program ... Read more »

Coke, MIT Machines Reward Consumers for Recycling

Coca-Cola, Kroger and MIT are all rolling out bottle recycling machines that reward consumers for their deposits. Wholly owned Coke subsidiary Coca-Cola Recycling has started up its fourth Reimagine Beverage Container recycling center at a Kroger supermarket in Irving, Texas, Plastics News reports. The company said that its first three ... Read more »

Elliptical’s R.A.S.E.R. HD May Achieve PUE of 1.03

The R.A.S.E.R. HD modular data center unit from Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS) is capable of maintaining very low values – 1.03 or better – for power usage effectiveness (PUE), according to recently released test results, the company reported. GKK Works conducted the testing on R.A.S.E.R. HD, a rack-level, container-based data center, saying ... Read more »

Truth in Labeling: Framing the Challenge to Get Results

It’s not earth shattering to say that the world isn’t “getting” climate change. A recent Nielsen report titled “Sustainable Efforts & Environmental Concerns Around the World” revealed that only 69% of global respondents said they were concerned about climate change/global warming — a number that’s actually gone down since 2007.That ... Read more »

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