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The companies last week announced a partnership that will allow customers to recycle Xboxes, Zunes and other Microsoft hardware at over 1,900 Goodwill locations around North America.
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The responsible electronics recycling certification years in the making has launched today with support from leading global corporations and environmental groups, all aiming to make a dent in the world's massive e-waste problem.
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Virtualization, a companywide PC upgrade and strict e-waste policies are some of the moved that combined to propel Citi to the top of "America's Greenest Banks," a new list compiled for the first time by Bank Technology News.
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A slew of news about end-of-life electronics has hit the wires in recent days, some of it highlighting progress in dealing with the problem of toxic gadgets, and others showing just how big a problem it will remain.
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Recent improvements in technology present challenges for data center cooling. Here are tips that can be especially helpful to managers of small and medium-sized business server rooms.<br />
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The computing giant announced this month more than $5 million in grants for computing research, including work on cutting data center energy use by up to 50 percent.
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What happens when green business meets cleantech? When those companies are like Best Buy, Autodesk and Serious Materials, you get firms that align their products and services with efforts to foster sustainability -- and in some cases guide the marketplace toward broader and deeper adoption of environmentally responsible practices.
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A new exhibit opened by IBM in the Disney World's Epcot Center highlights IBM's Smarter Planet initiative, while also showcasing -- and being powered by -- an innovative modular data center.
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Apple's long, long, long-awaited new tablet computer has finally been released to the wild, and while the iPad is a pretty nifty looking machine, it's unlikely to be a game-changer for the planet.
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The end-all, be-all of technology that may or may not be launched on Wednesday may or may not end up being a great gadget, but it won't solve IT's environmental impacts.
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A recent seminar from the EPA offered a primer for small business and local governments on how to avoid the pitfalls of e-waste recycling, but the lessons offered apply to any organization that's sitting on old electronics.
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Investment portfolios around the world are filled with "hidden risks" because their managers do not consider climate change when making investment decisions -- largely because asset owners aren't asking them to.
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What to make of the 20 most-read stories among the 2,350 (or so) articles and blog posts we ran during 2009? It's hard to make head or tails of them.
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The big-box retailer has adopted a strategy of helping its customers buy the greenest products possible, but has also quietly and steadily become the country's largest recycler of discarded electronics.
by Marc Gunther
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The IT and telecom industries have stepped up a lobbying effort for energy-efficient IT projects to be included in an expanded Clean Development Mechanism.
by Tom Young
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A new report from ChemSec and Clean Production Action highlights the innovations driven by electronics manufacturers that have removed toxics like bromine and chlorine from high-tech gadgets.
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In an hour-long webcast, IBM vice president Steven Sams showed how putting the company's own technology to work on overhauling its Lexington, Ky., data center highlights the potential of energy efficient IT projects.
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Although the notoriously secretive tech company's first-ever disclosure of the lifecycle impacts of its products has a long way to go toward being truly comprehensive, Apple's latest environmental reports are a sign of progress from the electronics industry.
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The British Computer Society will soon debut a new 'Foundation Certificate for Green IT,' aimed at providing industry workers with an introduction to the core principles of sustainable IT practices.
by James Murray
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Far from simply being a way to improve energy efficiency in data centers, information technology can help streamline almost every aspect of business, according to a new report from Ovum.
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A new white paper from IBM and Info-Tech Research finds that companies are taking on a host of green IT practices to achieve both cost-saving and footprint-reduction goals.
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A recent survey by IDC finds that even the smallest businesses are starting to take green initiatives to heart, especially when it comes to adopting IT applications that will make it easier to make their supply chains greener.
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IBM's new 'Green Retail Store' platform offers retailers in every industry a string of tools -- from point-of-sale systems to blade servers -- aimed at boosting performance, lowering energy use and reducing related emissions.
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Dell Computer yesterday announced a new online product recovery and recycling service aimed at the small business market. The service starts at $25 per computer, and is intended to streamline the buying, set-up and disposal of IT hardware.
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Through its Xerox Foundation, the company has awarded scientists at SUNY's College of Environmental Science and Forestry a renewable grant to speed the creation of inexpensive biodegradable plastics from byproducts of wood-based ethanol production.