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Cisco, 1E to Integrate IT and Building Management

August 19, 2011August 22, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Cisco and 1E have signed a partnership agreement to integrate their energy consumption software, according to news reports. Business Green reported that 1E is producing a version of its NightWatchman application that integrates with Cisco’s EnergyWise platform, allowing users to track the energy use of their IT infrastructure as well ... Read more »

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: TD Bank, Dupont, Siemens

August 15, 2011August 15, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

United Water: Lisette Provencher (left) has been named senior vice president, operations support for the company and its parent, Suez Environment North America. She joined Suez in 1986. TD Bank Group: Brad Peirce has been named vice president at TD Environment. He had been vice president for TD Wealth. Scientific ... Read more »

Sustainability Software Briefing: C3, Cisco, Sensus, 1E

August 12, 2011August 12, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

C3, a fledgling vendor of energy management software, says that its customers and partners now include Adobe, Constellation Energy, Dow Chemical, GE, HP and Siemens. The customer and partner roster also includes Accenture, BearingPoint, CH2M Hill, Deloitte, Equity Office, Masdar City, Orascom Telecom, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pella, SAIC and ... Read more »

Toyota Tops Global Green Brands Ranking

July 27, 2011 by Leon Walker

Toyota, 3M and Siemens have come out on top of a ranking of the best green brands by consultancy Interbrand. The companies named in Best Global Green Brands 2011 have a global presence and a demonstrated record of delivering value to stakeholders, Interbrand says. The consultancy largely attributes Toyota’s top ranking ... Read more »

Schneider, Cisco Launch Joint Building-IT Energy Platform; Canon Saves 2.7m kWh

July 13, 2011July 14, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Schneider Electric and Cisco have unveiled a joint energy management solution that allows building managers to extend the reach of their existing building management system into the IT/IP domain. The collaboration integrates Schneider’s EcoStruxure energy management architecture with the Cisco EnergyWise platform, allowing users to monitor and control all energy-consuming building ... Read more »

Lenovo ThinkPads to Feature Cisco Energy Management

June 30, 2011June 30, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Lenovo is rolling out a suite of laptops that will be the first PCs to support the Cisco EnergyWise energy management service, the two companies have announced. EnergyWise is a service embedded within millions of Cisco Catalyst switches deployed in enterprises around the world. The two companies say their collaboration ... Read more »

Five Winds, PE Int’l Merge; Offer Combined Consulting and IT

June 9, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Sustainability consulting firms PE International and Five Winds International, which share clients including Kraft and Carnival Cruise Lines, have announced a merger aimed at enabling market penetration in North America. The new combined company will provide the North American market with strategic management advisory services as well as software from ... Read more »

UBS, Citi Outperform Their Reputations, Study Finds

June 8, 2011June 8, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Google, Apple and Honda have earned reputations that far exceed their actual environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, while UBS and Citi don’t get enough credit for their sustainability initiatives, according to a report by Brandlogic and CRD Analytics. The study (pdf) of 100 leading global brands across nine major ... Read more »

Ericsson, Cisco, GE Launch New Cities Foundation

March 29, 2011March 29, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Cisco, Ericsson and GE have helped to launch a foundation aimed at improving life and work in the 21st century city. The founders of the New Cities Foundation said it will respond to the rapid urbanization of the earth’s population by developing new models of partnership among high-level leaders in ... Read more »

IBM, Intel, Pepsi Top Ethics Rankings

February 7, 2011February 7, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

IBM, Intel and PepsiCo have topped rankings of companies with the most ethical reputations. The EthicalQuote rankings by Swiss company Covalence score 581 companies in 18 sectors, through the quantities of positive and negative news stories about each company. Covalence describes the system as “a barometer of how multinationals are ... Read more »

Cisco CSR Report: GHG Emissions Down 12%

November 16, 2010December 14, 2010 by Gina Roos

Cisco has reduced Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from operations by 12 percent in fiscal year 2010, while Scope 3 GHG emissions from air travel were 45 percent lower than the 2007 baseline, according to the company’s sixth annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. These numbers are ... Read more »

ICT Firms Slow to Adopt Sustainability

November 1, 2010 by Gina Roos

IBM, Fujitsu, HP, Cisco and BT ranked in the top five positions in an assessment of 28 global information and communication technology (ICT) providers, according to a new report by Gartner and WWF Sweden. The report also reveals that Verizon and Lenovo did not score well, ranking No. 19 and ... Read more »

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