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A new report from the nonprofit concludes much of the cloud is powered with dirty energy sources by companies that often fail to disclose how much energy they use,
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National Telework Week 2011 saw nearly 40,000 employees work from home, boosting productivity and saving workers and companies costs; the number of remote workers is on the rise, according to a study from the week.
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Computing and communication companies like IBM, Xerox, SAP and Cisco recognize sustainability and climate change as opportunities, but their industry as a whole has not integrated those issues into their core businesses.
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The tool is a follow-up to a widely-cited report predicting that the ICT sector can reduce global GHG emissions by as much as 15 percent over the next 10 years.
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The Climate Savers Computing Initiative today announced that energy efficiency efforts from the global IT industry had resulting in huge cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and big savings on energy bills.
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A socially responsible investing firm has launched bylaw amendments at three of the world's largest technology companies in the wake of those firms' removal from a sustainable stock index.
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Based on the strength of its smart grid and energy management technologies, Cisco doubled its score in the latest green IT rankings to take first place; Ericsson, IBM and HP also scored well in the new report.
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Greenstone Carbon Management this week laid out the steps that IT professionals can use to put technology to work on meeting legislative requirements for carbon emissions, while also cutting costs from energy used across the enterprise.
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The copmany's new Intelligent Network Data Enterprise will bring a new level of control to the millions of new data points companies must track with smart grid projects; the tool aims to speed the adoption of smart grids worldwide.
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Energy efficiency firm People Power today released a new tool to help developers create smart-grid friendly building energy management devices.
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Following on the release earlier this year of a report outlining how information technology can enable a low-carbon future, the Climate Group this week launched a project to keep the IT industry on course.
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By incorporating environmental data into its overarching business-intelligence software program, SAP aims to make it easier to measure and manage corporate environmental footprints.
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A new ICT Sustainability Index released by IDC ranks the G20 countries on how well they've incorporated technologies from smart grid to teleworking that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5.8 gigatons by 2020.
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A global closed-loop reverse supply chain has enabled Cisco to collect nearly 24 million pounds of returned electronic equipment, more than 99 percent of which was recycled or reused. Meanwhile, using its own technoologies such as Telepresence helped the company reduce its U.S. operational emissions in fiscal year 2009 by a whopping 40 percent below 2007 levels.
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The federal government wants to help companies bring green technologies to market quickly with a new pilot program designed to put green technology patent applications on a fast track, potentially shaving a year off the process.
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At the U.N. Climate Change talks in Barcelona this week, industry experts are calling on policymakers to find ways to spur investments in information technologies that can help cut companies' and countries' greenhouse gas emissions.
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With the installation of a 500 kilowatt wind turbine on its manufacturing facility, Other World Computing says it is the world's first 100 percent wind-powered IT company.
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With the installation of a 500-kilowatt wind turbine on its manufacturing facility, Other World Computing says it is the world's first 100 percent wind-powered IT company.
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Just like with the plug-and-play model that lets devices easily connect and work with computers, Microsoft says its Smart Energy Reference Architecture will help create a similar plug-and-play experience with the utility grid.<br />
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On World Environment Day this past June, Infosys announced its intention to be a carbon neutral company by 2012. It's an ambitious goal that will touch on every aspect of travel and energy use by the company's 50 facilities and 100,000-plus employees.
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Although the U.K.'s overall public-sector energy use is down from the baseline year of 1999, the increased usage of IT is driving up electricity use and associated emissions, according to a new government report.
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For the first LEED-certified data center in New England -- and just the eighth such facility in the U.S. -- the retail company embraced aesthetic design principles as well as environmental considerations.
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A new Facebook application launched by the computer giant lets idling computers work on a range of health and environmental research projects, including the world's largest climate forecasting project.
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Manufacturing and technology company Emerson opened its new $50 million state-of-the-art global data center today -- a 35,000-square-foot facility that's expected to be 31 percent more energy efficient than a standard facility.
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Companies using outsourced data centers can save thousands of dollars per year in energy costs, as well as make significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent study.