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IT is the bridge that connects virtually all our efforts to measure, manage and reduce our environmental footprint. IT also presents significant opportunities to increase energy efficiency in operations and the environmental responsibility of products manufactured by the industry. Bonnie Nixon of HP shares her thoughts on IT as an essential element in a low-carbon economy.
by George Ahn
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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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The U.S. Green Building Council's new headquarters in Washington, D.C., Citi's new data center in Frankfurt, Germany, and now the new data center for the education services company ACT offer striking images of what it takes to achieve the highest LEED rating for a green building.
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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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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.
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Fairmont Hotels & Resorts are adding eco-friendly IT strategies to the company's Green Partnership environmental program and developing power management, procurement and recycling plans for their facilities.
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Certain principles can be broadly applied across industries. Take the principle of load diversity and full capacity utilization. This principle is used to great effect in the power sector, data centers -- and in some instances, buildings.
by Rob Watson
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In this response to an earlier blog post by editor Preston Gralla, the coordinator of Greenpeace's Cool IT Challenge explains how the campaign is trying to push companies on the policy front to influence the global climate debate for the better.
by Tom Dowdall
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The Santa Clara, Calif.-based data center has become the first building in the city to earn a LEED-Gold certification.
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Symantec's first annual Worldwide Green IT Report assesses the state of energy-efficient and environmentally friendly computing around the globe and finds significant progress being made on many fronts, even in the face of worldwide recession.
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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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By investing in key information technologies -- from gadgets to smart grids -- in the next 20 years, the United States can save $1.3 trillion in electricity costs and cut greenhouse gases by 20 percent, according to a report released today.
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From green roofs to heavily virtualized servers, the new facility uses 70 percent less energy than a typical data center its size, and makes use of free outside-air cooling almost two-thirds of the time.
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Downloading software online generates eight times fewer greenhouse gas emissions than buying the same product through a retailer, according to a recent study from Microsoft.
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Virtual meetings and telecommuting may potentially trim billions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions without sacrificing worker productivity or quality of life, according to two new reports released today from World Wildlife Fund.
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At the morning sessions of the first conference aimed at bringing together green and IT, much of the discussion focused on addressing the challenges faced by measuring, managing and securing environmental data.
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With help from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a coalition of groups is asking the U.S. Green Building Council for LEED certification standards for datacenters.
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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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IBM will build three energy efficient datacenters in a $3.1 million project for Religare Enterprises Limited of India.
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Information technology has been both a hindrance and help to the environment -- on the one hand, dematerializing commerce and increasing efficiencies; on the other, becoming a voracious consumer of energy. But green IT is on the rise in many companies, largely due to its huge cost-saving potential and quick payback times.
by Joel Makower
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The second annual State of Green Business Report, created by Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com, looks at hard data behind 20 indicators to find out just how well companies are doing on addressing environmental issues.
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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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Cisco's new EnergyWise program, to be phased in over the next year, will allow companies to manage the power used throughout their networks, from phones and computers to lights and air conditioning.
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NetApp's $1.4 million rebate — the largest of its kind awarded so far by PG&E — for construction of its new data center and its certification as a green business mark the latest recognition for the 16-year-old firm and its eco-friendly efforts.