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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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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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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 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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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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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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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.
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An analysis by research firm Verdantix finds that, despite their positive internal efforts to boost energy efficiency and reduce environmental impacts, most telecom companies have done very little to help their clients get greener.
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The 19 schools that pledged to bring students, faculty and staff on board with energy efficient computing practices will together save more than $450,000 per year in energy costs.
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The new tool offers enhanced data-capturing that gathers mid-sized companies' energy use and greenhouse gas emissions and helps to focus efforts on cost savings and emissions reductions.
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Sun Microsystems cut the ribbon on its largest green IT project, a revamped and consolidated datacenter that is expected to slash electricity costs by $1 million a year, reduce CO2 emissions by 11,000 metric tons annually, shrink the company's carbon footprint by 6 percent and save 675,000 gallons of water each year.
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The European Commission has identified three areas of the economy that can be improved through the use of efficient Information and Communications Technologies.