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Two fairly disparate trends -- the integration of hardware and software systems and more modular data centers -- both are leading to significantly more efficient IT systems....
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President Barack Obama has ordered federal agencies to beef up their green IT practices, but a lack of baselines and performance targets makes it difficult to assess how these efforts are......
Traceability and transparency take center stage as Motorola tests a conflict-free supply chain for minerals from the Congo....
We are at a historic moment where we will either enter into a contest for finite resources -- where most will lose in the long term -- or we can enter into a golden age of almost limitless......
Is it possible to get large parts of the population to engage -- and stay engaged -- in energy efficiency?...
Think smart meters are dead because of Google's misfire in the market? Think again. Reports on smart meters, the rise of plastic wine bottles and the UK's quest for green power are among the......
Clorox has just offered a sneak peek at a new mobile app designed to showcase the ingredients of its cleaning products, while the EPA is urging software developers to harness the agency's......
Though it's been clear for a while that IT will play a key role in how companies address sustainability, until now there hasn't been a clear profile of who the buyers are, or a broad outline of......
A range of IT vendors are creating and exploiting business opportunities by helping governments improve the efficiency and sustainability of urban infrastructure....
The wireless carrier has set a series of ambitious goals regarding its own end-of-life electronics, as well as those it sells to individuals, and is taking a lifecycle approach to the e-waste......
From telework to the smart grid, here's how the IT industry can help countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions....
A new ranking of green IT leadership finds Japan far out in front in its successes to use IT to reduce its carbon footprint. Denmark and Germany tie for second, while the U.S. fails to place in......
Toshiba has reportedly emerged as the top contender in the bidding war over Swiss smart meter maker Landis & Gyr, leapfrogging several engineering giants, including General Electric,......
The coming 'fourth wave' of innovation and growth in the IT industry will be driven by the incorporation of IT into buildings, vehicles and the energy grid....
The effort, launched with big-name companies that include Panasonic, Best Buy, Sony and Toshiba, would triple the amount of e-waste recycled in 2010....
The Smart Grids Technology Roadmap from the International Energy Agency shows how use of smart grid technologies can be expanded, and identifies goals that must be met for widespread adoption of......
In what it is calling an industry first, environmental software and services firm Locus Technologies debuted the eWell iPhone application to help organizations collect water-related field data....
Although both of the IT giants are making significant commitments to the energy and carbon management space, under the surface there are more differences than similarities in their approaches....
Researchers at Rice University have trimmed away little-used circuits on microchips to improve energy efficiency and computing speed by sacrificing accuracy....
A recent issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology takes on real-world implementations of green IT, showing how technology can make everything from manufacturing to irrigation to the government......
The race is on to establish supply chain standards capable of tackling Congo's conflict minerals ahead of new U.S. legislation....
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