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Our latest roundup of sustainability news: The good and bad of energy policy, how driverless cars will reshape cities, and Google's climate-skeptic misstep.
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This weekly roundup of news you may have missed trawls the aisles for interesting reports, corporate commitments and goals ... and nanofood.
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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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A pilot project on the company's Redmond campus will save an estimated $1 million per year in energy use, and pay for itself in less than 18 months, one key element of its overall sustainability strategy as laid out in its new CSR report.
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Google's Energy Czar, Bill Wiehl, walks us through the company's new level of transparency around energy and the environment.
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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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The global data center services provider announced that all of its U.S.-based facilities are now completely powered by renewable energy.
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The latest round of the saga between the social network and the environmental group has Greenpeace urging Facebook to swear off coal-powered energy by Earth Day.
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Sheila Davis, the Executive Director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, talks about the evolution of environmental stewardship in the global hub of technology, and how cleantech companies are leading where IT firms lagged.
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Following upon the announcement last year of a new facility in Oregon, followed by a doubling of that facility, news this week is that the social network will now also be building a $450 million facility in North Carolina.
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In the newest campaign against the social network's new data center in Oregon, Greenpeace has created a short animation mocking the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
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The facility is the first phase of a two-year plan to build a network of data centers powered by renewable energies that could eventually host the world's largest websites and shrink the internet's carbon footprint.
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Calling the connection between manure and computing a "symbiotic relationship," a new research paper from HP Labs outlines how a mid-sized dairy farm can power a one-megawatt data center.
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After calling out the social network for using electricity generated with coal for its new green data center, it turns out that at least some of Greenpeace's servers are powered by coal as well as nuclear power.
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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 social network earned cheers aplenty for its recently announced energy-efficient data center, some of which are turning to jeers now that it turns out its electricity will primarily be generated by dirty coal.
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At the end of yesterday's Forum, a panel representing the world's largest IT companies talked about how to successfully apply technology to environmental challenges.
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The technologies that made IBM's list of its top five green innovations in the past year -- and what didn't make that list -- highlight the shift that Big Blue is making toward the green.
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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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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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As IT needs take up an ever-bigger part of companies' energy bills and purchasing budget, the costs of maintaining computers based on their performance per dollar are growing exponentially. Ken Brill of the Uptime Institute spoke with GreenBiz Radio about the surprisingly easy ways to drop IT costs while improving performance.
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From large-scale data centers to every desktop it owns, here's how the search giant's quest for energy efficiency gets results.