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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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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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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. -
In the near future, environmental, financial, legislative and risk-related pressure will increasingly force organizations to govern and manage their IT in a green fashion. -
Dell is now using its direct model in new ways to showcase the company's environmental commitment, which it has identified as a key strategy for future growth. -
Manufacturers are taking strides to make IT products more efficient and with less hazardous materials. For many products, a relatively quick and simple assessment can be completed by focusing on three primary areas: material content, energy consumption and end of life considerations. -
In this wide-ranging interview with Bonnie Nixon Gardiner, Deborah Grove explores how HP has made greening its supply chain work toward its overall sustainability goals, and how other IT companies can benefit from the same practices. -
Server power consumption is certainly a big part of the problem of data center energy drain, but it only tells part of the story -- there are many other pieces of the puzzle that IT managers have to address in order to save on energy bills and improve their environmental performance. -
With a looming data center energy crisis on the horizon, IT managers can today take proactive steps to meet tomorrow's data center challenges. - Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems (and thus Silicon Valley as we know it today), is a venture capitalist heavily involved in green technologies ranging from energy-efficient IT projects to biofuels research. He spoke with GreenBiz Radio about what it will take to keep the green momentum moving.
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High-tech companies like web hosting provider Rackspace face a dual challenge in the green business world: greening their operations and helping their clients get green at the same time. The company's CTO, John Engates, explains how greening their data centers has caused ripples throughout their company and the industry. - Dole, the largest fruit and vegetable producer on the planet, recently embarked on an ambitious journey to make its pineapple and banana supply chain originating in Costa Rica carbon neutral. In this Q & A, Dole's Sylvain Cuperlier and Rudy Amador will discuss the reasons behind the initiative and the first steps the company has taken.
- In this Q & A, Intel's Dave Stangis will discuss the evolution of the company's carbon footprint and the challenges of making the business case for carbon reduction and efficiency improvements.
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If you are hoping to optimize the efficiency of your data center and cut power and cooling costs, don't remodel your data center or build a whole new one just yet. This step-by-step guide to assessing and analyzing data center costs can help IT managers strategize to maximize efficiency in their current data centers. -
There is no shortage of ideas for how to reduce the energy used by data centers, but software solutions -- used in tandem with other strategies or as stand-alone fixes -- are often overlooked by companies feeling the pinch of power and storage demands. -
IT asset disposal is an industry with compelling drivers: security, regulatory compliance and eco-responsibility. What should companies large and small look for in the company that disposes of your end-of-life IT assets? -
A notoriously contentious hotbed of commercial competition, the tech industry's biggest names have recently been filled with digital good feelings and agreement over the need for greater IT energy efficiency.
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