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A new 'E-Cycling' program passed into law in Oregon and Washington takes effect on New Year's Day, requiring electronics manufacturers to recycled old hardware, and promising to spur the growth of responsible e-waste disposal.
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Unless your IT department is run by an ultra-conscious greenie, there are probably steps towards energy efficiency that you can take in the new year. While these New Year's IT resolutions cost time and money, they are a worthwhile investment in the long run.
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As a result of increasing pressure and environmental awareness, technology companies have initiated an effort to encourage eco-friendly electronic waste disposal in India.
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Expect 2009 to be a breakout year for Green IT, with it taking a central role not just in IT departments, but in the enterprise as a whole. The economic meltdown, a big new stimulus package, and advances in technology will all combine to put green IT directly at the center of how corporations operate.
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The past year has brought a sea change in the world of IT, with big changes underway in every aspect of computers' lifecycles, as well as increasing awareness of the power of the computer age to address larger environmental issues.
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Despite the overall economic meltdown, there's good news for IT pros with green smarts --- your job skills will most likely be in demand next year, and you're not as likely as others to hurt by the economic crisis.
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Table scraps, discarded meals that never make it to the dining room and aging leftovers. Garbage to you and many in the food industry, perhaps, but it's a windfall for New England firm Converted Organics.
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Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet and founder of networking company 3Com, says that if green tech is ever to take off, it needs to learn the lessons of IT and the Internet.
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By collecting small and often-landfilled personal electronics, the northern Japanese city gathered around 17 tons of e-waste, and plans to harvest the scarce and valuable metals that otherwise end up in the trash.
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Dell has taken a hard shot at Apple's ads proclaiming the MacBook to be green, has criticized Apple for misleading advertising, and says Apple isn't really a green company at all. In fact, Dell says in a blog, 'Apple hasn't stated any goals, just made claims, which as far as we can tell, are not accurate.'
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There's good news for those in IT and beyond who worry about the increasing problem of e-waste and how to dispose of computers, servers, and other old electronic equipment. Finding a solution to the problem in prominent the the House Science and Technology Committee's agenda for next year.
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Virtualization to be replaced by the cloud and telework? Culling toxics from products and boosting takeback? Power management over hardware upgrades? No matter what shape it takes, experts agree that green IT will figure prominently in the new year.
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The deepening recession won't slow the pace of Green IT initiatives, and may in fact increase their pace. So says a just-released report from Forrester, which finds that Green IT has begun to take a central place in mainstream IT practices.
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Greening IT doesn't just mean greening the data center and PCs --- it also means greening printing as well. Doing that in a large business can save several million dollars a year. I recently interviewed two top 'green' executives at HP, and got their six top tips for how to green your organization's printing.
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Wonder which IT suppliers have the best green records? According to Ceres, an environmental and public interest investment coalition, IBM Dell, and Intel are at the top. And the technology industry in general is more environmentally responsible than other industries.
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The Sony VGN-SR290PDB laptop is the lucky recipient of the 1000th EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) label.
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President-elect Obama's choice of Nobel award-winning physicist and head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Steven Chu is good news for green IT. Dr. Chu has already launched a project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that could drastically reduce the energy needs of supercomputers. You can expect more green IT breakthoughs from him as well.
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Webroot is partnering with Guaranteed Recycling Xperts and Centillion to provide free recycling of legacy security hardware to purchasers of Webroot's new hosted online threat protection solution.
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With holiday party season in full swing, a host of sources offer tips on greening office celebrations from ideas on pared down, eco-friendly festivities in house to the ultraminimalist option of bagging it all together.
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The potential toughening of E.U. e-waste regulations could impose minimum recycling targets on IT manufacturers and force them to crank up takeback schemes.
by Tom Young
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An employee initiative called the Green Team led a drive to slash energy use, water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and waste to achieve the LEED rating.
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Asserting that existing labeling programs are not broad enough -- and aiming to help businesses make more environmentally friendly computer purchases -- the company has begun rating its products on materials used, recyclability and energy consumption.
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Companies can do much more than reducing data center energy costs to reduce IT's environmental footprint while significantly reducing costs. David Daoud, research manager with IDC, looks at sustainable computing practices, the next stage in the evolution of Green IT.
by David Daoud
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Earlier today, IBM unveiled the IBM Rational Requirements Composer, a piece of software that will help businesses lower operating costs and reduce paper consumption.
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The 'greenness' of companies that sell PCs, IT equipment, and electronics has become increasingly important to enterprises that want to build green data centers or make IT more environmentally friendly. So the latest Greenpeace rankings are well worth reading.