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More bad news on the security front for the Smart Grid: The Wall Street Journal reports that the electric utility industry is negotiating with a defense contractor to determine whether spies from China and elsewhere have already hacked into the U.S. power grid. »Read More
Blogs
- New Research Uses Organic Computing to Make Traffic Greener – Matthew Wheeland
- Have Chinese Spies Hacked into the U.S. Power Grid? – Preston Gralla
- Ad Bureau: Apple Overstates Green Claims for Macbooks – Preston Gralla
- Tapping into the Value of Being Virtually Green – Rob Watson
- Microsoft Joins the Home-Energy Management Game with Hohm – Matthew Wheeland
Tracking the Stimulus Spending with Recovery.org
GreenBiz.com's senior writer Marc Gunther speaks with Eric Gillespie, the CIO of Onvia about how his firm's website, Recovery.org, is helping companies track federal stimulus spending -- and get a slice of the pie.
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Greener by Design 2009: The New Metrics of Design
At our Greener by Design 2009 conference last month, Senior Writer Marc Gunther spoke with Wal-Mart's Rand Waddoups, James Sullivan from Clear Standards, and Terry Swack of Sustainable Minds about the guidelines and metrics that they put to work to assess the life-cycle impact of their products.
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In the second annual State of Green Business report, Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com answer the question: How are U.S. businesses doing in their quest to be more environmentally responsible?
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GreenBiz.com is pleased to share the full session videos from the State of Green Business Forum.
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.
IT professionals have become good environmental and privacy stewards during the past 10 years -- on paper. Corporate policy now generally reflects the fundamental tenets of good electronics stewardship. Yet, how is it possible that a majority of e-waste still is being exported to developing countries, according to most estimates?
Environmentally focused companies, such as Marriott and GlaxoSmithKline, are taking a hard-line approach to e-waste management, investing time and money to ensure that every piece of obsolete technology is recycled or refurbished in an environmentally appropriate manner, not dumped in a landfill is China.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The 12th edition of the quarterly scorecard finds Dell, HP and Lenovo taking a further hit in the ranking for failing to remove toxics from their products.
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-- Environmentally focused companies, such as Marriott and GlaxoSmithKline, are taking a hard-line approach to e-waste management, investing time and money to ensure that every piece of obsolete technology is recycled or refurbished in an environmentally appropriate manner, not dumped in a landfill is China.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! today said it will no longer purchase carbon offsets for its operations, focusing its climate strategy on reducing the energy used by its data centers.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ore. -- Symantec’s Oregon facility has been certified as a green building with a gold rating under Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards. It's the second time that the firm has earned the ranking for one of its sites.
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BRUSSELS, -- The iPhone maker is one of 10 mobile phone companies that announced plans today to support micro-USB chargers in an attempt to curb electronic waste.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- In a survey of almost 2,000 employees, the company found that, in addition to increasing job satisfaction among teleworking employees, Cisco saved $277 million as a result of its flexible work program.
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- A series of white papers released by the Telecommunications Industry Association offer OEMs a guide to the environmental requirements and restrictions for different markets around the globe.
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HERNDON, Va. -- A new report from CDW Government finds that although awareness of virtualization's cost and environmental benefits is widespread in government agencies, only 20 percent are actually putting the technology to good use.
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ZURICH, -- In partnership with ETH Zurich, IBM has unveiled a new kind of high-performance computer that cuts energy use by 40 percent and CO2 emissions by 85 percent.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A new report from Forrester Research outlines the 15 "Green IT 1.0" technologies that are helping IT managers clearly define and achieve business and environmental benefits through smart technology management.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- A pilot project on the campus found a projected savings of $500,000 annually by shutting down computers that are not in use.
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MADISON, Wis. -- Senate Bill 107 must now clear the Assembly and get approval from the governor before becoming law. The move could bring the number of states with e-waste recycling laws to approximately 20.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- 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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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An audit by U.S. Department Energy's Office of the Inspector General of seven facilities, including DOE headquarters, concluded that better management of IT resources could have saved at least $1.6 million in energy costs in fiscal year 2008.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- The long-awaited digital TV transition began today, leaving millions of Americans without a signal unless they secured a set-top converter box. That could leave behind heaps of unwanted analog TVs that some manufacturers are ill equipped to recycle.
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HOLYOKE, Mass. -- The city of Holyoke, with its ready source of cheap, relatively clean hydroelectic power, will host a new, energy efficient data center that will bring innovation and jobs to the city.
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WEYBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM -- With a PUE of 1.2, the new data center designed by Keysource for Petroleum Geo-Services has cut its energy costs almost in half using already-existing technologies.
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BOULDER, Colo. -- A new study by Pike Research forecasts rapid growth in demand for green networking hardware over the next four years as telecom firms look to cut costs and emissions through improved energy efficiency in their operations.
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ROUND ROCK, Texas -- With the addition of new programs across the United States, there are now more than 1,400 Goodwill sites for individuals to drop off and brand of unwanted or broken electronics for safe disposal.
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SEATTLE, Wash. -- The company's Surveyor program now includes graphical readouts that display CO2 emissions reductions, energy and money savings from smart power management policies; meanwhile, two cities highlight their cost and energy savings from using the software.