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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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GreenBiz Group's conference focused on big data, smart buildings, connected vehicles, and empowered consumers marks a changing conversation on how to create solutions for sustainable change.
by Joel Makower
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The EPD Transparency Brief aims to make product environmental information not only free, but simple to review.
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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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GE unveils a new $48-million data center that serves its global appliances and lighting business.<br />
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research -- the folks who do climate modeling, among many other things -- is in the final stages of building a new supercomputing facility that points the way forward for green data centers of all stripes.
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Facebook's Open Compute Project will allow the IT industry to access the design secrets behind the social network's new data center in Prineville, Ore., which the company says uses 38 percent less power than existing server farms.
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Tech consulting firm Teladata and the IFMA Foundation have teamed up to produce a free, easy-to-use online guide for greening data centers.
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Anyone with an interest in the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating and assessment systems can weigh in on what will become the next version of LEED.
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Six months after the Utah facility was unveiled, the 60,000 square foot computing facility has earned the second-highest level of green building certification.
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The company unveiled a number of new initiatives this week, as well as upgrades and expansions of its data center and building management solutions.
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IBM chose an existing building to house what would become the company's most technologically advanced green data center. Re-use of the building, along with a slew of energy- and water-saving measures, helped land the data center a LEED Gold certification.
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Panduit Corp.'s new headquarters is a showcase of green design and advanced technology by the firm and two other leading companies that develop products for more energy efficient lighting and flooring in data centers and other facilities.
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Six months after opening its latest green facility, Fortune Data Centers has become one of a very small number of LEED-rated data centers; internet phenomenon Facebook also confirmed that it was one of the facility's new tenants.
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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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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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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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ACT, the nonprofit that established the American College Testing Program 50 years ago, has attained LEED-Platinum green building certification for the organization's data center -- the first in the country to achieve the U.S. Green Building Council's highest rating.
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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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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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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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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.