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From lower costs to higher brand performance and improved employee morale, a serious business case can be made for sustainability. In case we forgot.
by Chris Hummel
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Has the social network caved in to Greenpeace's demands in announcing its plans to build a massive, renewably powered data center near the Arctic Circle?
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Fujitsu surveyed 1,000 CIO and senior ICT managers to assess the maturity of sustainable ICT practices around the world, and the company's findings read like a restless teen's report card.
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Google's disclosure of its energy use and carbon footprint was a milestone for the company and many more major industry players need to follow suit, according to Verdantix, which looked at the sustainability practices of the 14 largest internet firms.
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The company's latest CSR report downplays its green power purchases and highlights Dell's growing e-waste hauls and improved energy efficiency and performance-per-watt metrics.
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The environmental group has released its latest video in a campaign to get Facebook to embrace clean energy, targeting the company's data centers in Oregon and North Carolina as pollution sources while suggesting how the social network can change course.
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IBM and Schneider Electric are joining forces to provide new smarter buildings solutions that combine robust data collection and powerful analytics, enabling owners to better manage energy use at their facilities and obtain greater savings. The partnership was one several announcements about new offerings, software, services and tools from IBM in its Smarter Planet campaign.<br />
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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 kickoff to IBM's third-annual Pulse expo showcased how the company has its eyes on making the world's cities connected, automated and efficient, through hardware and software innovations and new partnerships with Johnson Controls and Ricoh.
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The British Computer Society is warning that the imminent Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme will create perverse incentives that could penalize the most efficient data center operators and drive more IT services offshore.
by Cath Everett
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There's wide hope that world leaders can significantly advance a global commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimize changes to our climate. With such a commitment and the right technology tools, a clean and prosperous future can be well within our reach.
by Rob Bernard
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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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Wells Fargo & Company is upping the ante on its environmental commitments by targeting a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2018, based on 2008 levels.
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A combination of data center energy efficiency, renewable energy and promotion of more environmentally friendly behavior will be used to cut eBay’s greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2012.
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Efficiency, savings -- it seems so easy: Add recycle bins, upgrade light bulbs, buy more efficient desktop monitors, replace the fleet with hybrids, add a green blurb to the homepage and voila. However, achieving meaningful change in companies goes beyond the superficial and requires a deeper dive.
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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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Wells Fargo's newly opened Manhattan Beach branch has attained LEED-Gold status, exceeding certification expectations for the site, the financial services firm said this week.
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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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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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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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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 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.