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Interface Reduces Lighting Power Consumption by 70% at Georgia Office

Enlighted says its products are being used to improve more than five million square feet of commercial real estate for such companies as Interface, which is saving 70 percent on power consumption at an office in Georgia. Combining sensor technology, big data analytics and control into a single system, Enlighted ... Read more »

Exxon, Microsoft, Target Added to Dow Jones Index; IBM Dropped

Exxon, Microsoft, Canadian National Railway and Target are among the largest companies added to, and IBM, GlaxoSmithKline and United Technologies among those dropped from, one of the world’s leading sustainability indices. Swiss-based investment firm SAM and Dow Jones Indexes released the 2012 Dow Jones Sustainability Index review, which tracks the ... Read more »

Sony, HP Only Ultrabooks With Easily Replaceable Batteries, Report Says

Of the new generation of super-thin “ultrabook” laptops only two of 28 major models, Sony’s Vaio T13 and HP Elite Book Folio 9470, have the environmentally friendly function of user-replaceable batteries, according to a report by The Electronics TakeBack Coalition. The report, titled Ultra-Inconvenient, argues that when batteries are not ... Read more »

Too May Eco-Labels ‘Overwhelming,’ Companies Say

Consumers and companies alike are becoming “confused” and “overwhelmed” by eco-labeling, according to a survey of more than 1,000 international companies including Hewlett-Packard, Nestlé, Canon, Sara Lee and E.On. The joint study by the International Institute for Management Development and the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne concludes that eco-labeling has nearly ... Read more »

Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, Honda Top Global Green Brands Ranking

Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, Honda, Volkswagon and Hewlett-Packard topped an annual ranking of global green brands by consultancy firm Interbrand. Interbrand’s 2012 Best Global Green Brands report evaluates and ranks companies on their environmental performance as well as the public’s perception of their green credentials. The 2012 report aims to ... Read more »

Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big Data

When Shell Oil’s power requirements grew 3.6 MW in a nine-month period at its three global data centers and 400 regional sites, the company’s IT subsidiary started investigating cloud-based capacity to lower energy costs, Computer World reported. Part of the challenge for Shell Oil IT has been the upcoming deployment ... Read more »

Fujitsu Launches ‘World’s Most Energy-Efficient’ Single-Node Server

Fujitsu has launched Primergy RX300 S7, a product that the company calls the world’s most energy-efficient single-node server. The server has a 51 percent energy-efficiency advantage over its nearest benchmarked competitor, Hewlett-Packard’s ProLiant DL360 G7, according to Fujistsu. This, the company says, means that customers can now run two-thirds more workloads ... Read more »

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