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Our New Event! Greener by Design: Strategies, Tools, and Markets for Product Innovation
This two-day, hands-on event focuses on the greening of mainstream products by combining first-rate speakers and panelists with a unique approach to innovation called Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT).
Participants will hear from leading companies large and small, as well as the top green product designers and participate in innovative techniques that combine the best elements of a traditional conference and an experiential workshop.
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Co-Op America: Greening Businesses Large and Small
The second annual Green Business Conference takes place in Chicago this month; in advance of the gathering GreenBiz Radio sat down with Denise Hamler, director of Co-Op America's green business programs, to learn how the world of green business has grown.
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Welcome to GreenBiz 2.0!
We've been working long hours behind the scenes to make GreenBiz.com and our sister sites even more useful and information-packed. At last, we're ready to unveil it.
We have redesigned the look and feel of GreenBiz.com and all our sister sites to make it easier for you to navigate and explore. All the same great news and resources are still here, and here is a short overview of all the new additions and changes to the sites.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the new design, send a note to Carlie Peterson at carlie@greenerworldmedia.com.
Thanks for reading!
Joel Makower, Executive Editor
- How to Develop a Green IT Culture
IT has suffered an 'eco black eye' over the course of the past year even though its contributions to climate change are minimal compared to other sources. Instead ...
- The Difficulty of Gauging Workstation Power Consumption -- and How to Get it Done
Energy use is notoriously difficult to calculate in a real-world setting; although SPEC is developing a high-functioning set of benchmarks to manage those numbers, there are ...- Five Simple Ways to Help Your IT Infrastructure Go Green
If you're an IT pro, though, going green may well be new to you, and you may not know where to begin. So here are five simple ways to get started going green. ... - The Difficulty of Gauging Workstation Power Consumption -- and How to Get it Done
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Two Steps Forward
Exxon, the Rockefellers, and the Future of Big Oil
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Corporate America
Fiji Water, tacos and going “green”
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Marketing Green
Reframing Global Warming Across the Political Spectrum
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The Triple Bottom Line
Timberland And Stonyfield Farms--Two Little Guys Showing The Big Guys How It's Done
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State of Green Business 2008
In this landmark 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? It introduces the GreenBiz Index, 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.
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FEATUREAs 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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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Research firm In-Stat looks at the energy efficiency of Local Area Network switches and the ways networking vendors are going green in a new study.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Miercom’s Certified Green program rates networking equipment based on several criteria, such as power efficiency, heat dissipation, cooling requirements, energy efficiency and overall product efficiency. Cisco Catalyst switches received the company's first certification.
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BERKELEY, Calif. -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and processor maker Tensilica are working on making a cost-effective supercomputer for creating highly detailed climate models.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- IBM is continuing its efforts to green data centers, bringing together vendors to support energy standards and creating new tools for data center users to monitor energy use.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Out of 205 IT decision-makers surveyed, almost three out of four have adopted virtualization for reasons ranging from saving energy to better security.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- The data center owner and manager has adopted the Power Usage Effectiveness metric and is measuring the energy efficiency of its data centers throughout the world.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Hiring a C-level 'Energy Czar' position and creating a corporate average data-center efficiency metric are among some of the top-level changes companies should adopt in order to make serious reductions in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released by the Uptime Institute and McKinsey.
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FOLSOM, Calif. -- The company's LiveImaging feature allows operators to gauge efficiencies in energy use, heating and cooling, humidity and pressure differentials, making possible on-the-fly adjustments to data center performance.
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REDMOND, Wash. -- The funding is part of the company’s Sustainable Computing Program, which focuses on energy efficiency and the “pay for play” principle where the amount of energy used by a computing device is proportional to the demand placed on it. The award recipients include University of Tennessee, Stanford, Harvard and University of Oklahoma.
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LONDON -- New research from Sun Microsystems aims to allow firms to measure the carbon footprint of their emails.
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TORONTO, CANADA -- The online hardware and software retailer has launched a new EcoTech section devoted to EPEAT-certified products and solutions for saving electricity, reducing waste and other environmentally friendly computer products.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The organizations signed a memorandum of understanding to promote the greening of computer facilities and share best practices for replication with government agencies and industry.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- We've been working long hours behind the scenes to make GreenBiz.com and our sister sites even more useful and information-packed. At last, here it is, and here's what new and improved about the sites.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled plans for what it says will be the most power-efficient enterprise-class data center in the world.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Enterprise Rent-a-Car will finish switching out PCs for thin client terminals in its rental locations to streamline car rental transactions and slash energy consumption and emissions.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Green computing is recognized as a priority for cutting costs and energy use, but many companies are still slow to make plans or take action, according to a new report.
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Round Rock -- North Kingstown, R.I. will start a wholesale conversion of its government computers to more energy efficient systems in an effort to save money and reduce its environmental impact.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems launched its Eco Advantage Program to help its partners green their IT practices. The program offers assistance with training, assessment, scenario modeling and implementation.
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FREMONT -- Computer components maker Corsair has received 80 Plus certification, a rating used to show energy efficiency, of all of its power supplies.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- A Datamonitor survey finds a majority of CIOs and IT managers see green IT as a top or high priority, with many planning to or already putting eco-friendly computing practices in place.
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