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Rheem and Fujitsu General Partner

September 14, 2016 by Carl Weinschenk

Rheem and Fujitsu General Ltd. have entered what the companies call a strategic collaboration to expand both organizations’ heating and cooling product portfolios. Demand for ductless air conditioning is growing in the United States. The press release says that demand for mini-slit and commercial Variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems has risen ... Read more »

DJSI: Which Firms Made the Cut?

September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Bank of America, Telefonica and BHP Billiton are the three largest additions to the 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices while Cisco Systems, PepsiCo and Royal Bank of Canada are the three largest deletions (by free-float market capitalization) to the DJSI World this year. S&P Dow Jones Indices and investment specialist ... Read more »

Tech Firms Help Farmers Combat Climate Change

August 25, 2014August 25, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Panasonic, Fujitsu and other Japanese technology firms, looking for ways to offset decreased demand for their consumer electronics, are producing automated greenhouses and sensor-controlled fields to help farmers in Japan maintain constant conditions for their crops, according to Reuters. Heat and erratic weather in recent years has made it difficult ... Read more »

Pureti Offers Pollution-Lowering Spray for Facilities

July 2, 2014July 2, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Pureti, A US company with facilities in Michigan and Connecticut, is offering a group of spray-on products that it says can make any surface self-cleaning while also lowering air pollution in the vicinity, according to Newsweek. At the heart of the products is titanium oxide, also known as titania. When ... Read more »

Fujitsu Enhances Green Button Data Security

November 12, 2013 by Leon Walker

Fujitsu Laboratories of America has developed technology that enhances Green Button, an industry-led initiative that aims to improve Americans’ access to their own energy usage information by enabling both privacy control by utility customers and data integrity verification by service providers. Green Button allows customers to download their electricity usage data from ... Read more »

VW Heads Microcontroller Energy Efficiency Standards Group

May 23, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Volkswagen will chair an expanded working group to establish an energy-efficiency benchmark for microcontrollers aimed at making automotive end products more energy aware. Semiconductor vendors including Freescale, Fujitsu, Infineon, Microchip, NXP, Renesas, STMicroelectronics and TI have also joined the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC). Microcontroller efficiency (optimizing both performance and ... Read more »

Cisco, Google Top Greenpeace IT Ranking

April 26, 2013April 25, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Cisco and Google have tied for first place in Greenpeace’s latest ranking of IT sector climate leadership. Google and Cisco both scored 58 out of a possible 100 on Greenpeace’s sixth Cool IT leaderboard after logging gains of five and nine points, respectively, over their 2012 rankings. The top five ... Read more »

Truvia Achieves Carbon Trust Certification

January 23, 2013January 23, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Truvia calorie-free sweetener has achieved product carbon footprint certification by the Carbon Trust, according to the brand, which has set a goal to become carbon-neutral by 2020. Parent company Cargill worked with the Carbon Trust to certify Truvia’s carbon footprint and verify its waste and water footprints throughout its supply chain, ... Read more »

Global ICT Sustainability Index Falls, Fujitsu Finds

October 16, 2012October 16, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Efforts to improve the sustainability of information and communication technology (ICT) have stalled in organizations, and opportunities to cut costs and make more efficient use of resources are not being maximized, according to a study by Fujitsu. “ICT Sustainability: The Global Benchmark 2012 Report,” which summarizes responses from 1,200 CIOs ... Read more »

Fujitsu Sustainability Report: CO2 Emissions Drop 7.3%

September 10, 2012September 10, 2012 by Leon Walker

In 2011, Fujitsu Group’s global CO2 emissions totaled around 1.098 million tons, representing a year-on-year reduction of 7.3 percent, or about 87,000 tons, and an 18.2 percent reduction on levels from the company’s 1990 baseline year. The Japanese corporation had a target of reducing its carbon emissions by 6 percent, from ... Read more »

Fujitsu System Recycles CDs into PCs, Cuts Carbon Emissions 15%

August 24, 2012August 27, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Fujitsu says it has developed the PC industry’s first recycling system that collects the plastic from used CDs and DVDs for repurposing in the bodies of notebook PCs. Compared to conventional notebook PC manufacturing processes, this system is expected to reduce the amount of newly produced plastic used by 10 ... Read more »

The IT Energy Bill: Do We Need a New Metric for CIOs?

August 15, 2012August 30, 2012 by Jennifer Hermes

I often hear that IT sustainability — aka green IT initiatives — don’t make it into the top three priorities for a Chief Information Officer (CIO). When I ask why and if they know how much energy IT consumes and how much it costs, I am more often than not ... Read more »

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