Companies Boost Recycling Efforts Despite Slow Economy
Organizations are increasingly putting more effort into their recycling programs for all types of materials such as aluminum cans, fluorescent lamps, wood waste and scrap metal. Along with saving the...
View ArticleHome Depot Faces Shareholder Wrath Over Energy Efficiency
Just a day after Chevron bowed to shareholder demands to track its carbon footprint, Home Depot now faces a shareholder vote on its energy plan at its May 28 annual general meeting. The $20 billion...
View ArticleVolvo Employees Sport ‘CO2 Pedometers’
A group of employees from the Volvo Group in Goteborg, Sweden are taking part in a prototype project in which a personal “CO2 pedometer” has kept a check on what their commuting to work costs in the...
View ArticleSprint Surpasses Recycling Goal, Sharp Adds Solar Cell Phone
As one major cell phone carrier labors to recycle obsolete units, a manufacturer is bringing into play a phone that charges itself by the sun. Earlier this year, Sprint set a goal to recycle 250,000...
View ArticleGreen Data Center Rx – Go Modular
Demands for IT capacity are unrelenting and often unpredictable, making it difficult for CIOs in mid-market businesses to keep up with the pace of change. Growth from mergers, acquisitions and...
View ArticlePG&E Talks Smart Grids
Andrew Tang, who leads Pacific Gas & Electric’s “Smart Energy Web” program, recently presented his vision of the future of smart grid at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden...
View ArticleIBM, Sun Top Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge
The first results of the Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge reveal that IBM and Sun Microsystems are the top ranking companies, with scores of 29 out of 100. Still, Greenpeace says there is plenty of work...
View ArticleBest Practices Revealed for CSR Reports, Carbon Reporting
In late May, two groups have put out guidances on how to properly assemble CSR reports, as well as how to report carbon emissions. The Climate Disclosure Standards Board, an international climate...
View ArticleKing County Cuts Energy Costs With PC Mgmt Software
King County in Washington says its agencies have reduced energy consumption by an average of 38 percent by using PC power management software. “Networked PCs definitely consume the majority of our...
View ArticleDOE Creates National Carbon Capture Center
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a new National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) to speed up the development and testing of new technologies to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-based...
View Article45% of Firms Adopting Green IT Strategies, Budgets Rising
Nearly all senior-level IT executives are at least discussing a green information technology (IT) strategy, while 45 percent have already implemented green IT initiatives, according to a recent survey...
View ArticleSmart Grid Initiatives Poised for Growth
The U.S. market for smart-grid technologies is projected to reach nearly $17 billion by 2014, up from about $6.4 billion today, driven by an aging electric infrastructure, increasing demand for...
View ArticleGlobal Carbon Markets in Discord as Emissions Projections Rise
Just as the United States warns that global carbon dioxide emissions may rise 39 percent by 2030, there appears to be discord as to whether the U.S. and the European Union will be able to integrate...
View ArticleSt. Louis Building Aims to be Nation’s Greenest
The new Living Learning Center at the Washington University’s Tyson Research Center in St. Louis aims to lay claim to the nation’s greenest building, as it seeks to be the first certified under the...
View ArticleEMC Reduces Emissions-to-Revenue Ratio by 19%
While overall emissions at global IT and consulting firm EMC have gone up as a result of increased business, the company has reduced its emissions per million dollars in revenue by 19 percent from 2005...
View ArticleAlcatel-Lucent Sets Goal to Halve Emissions by 2020
A key part of Alcatel-Lucent’s 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report focuses on what the company is doing to reduce the impact of its products on the environment and to enable the...
View ArticleDell, HP, Better Place, Tririga Earn Sustainability Awards
Procter & Gamble, Dell, HP, Better Place, Tririga, Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance and Harris Corp. are the winners of the 2009 AMR Research Leadership Awards. The research firm, focused on global...
View ArticleConAgra, P&G Among Honorees for Sustainable Packaging
The winners of the 21st DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation for consumer goods include some of the biggest brands in the industry such as Estee Lauder, Whole Foods, ConAgra, Procter & Gamble,...
View ArticlePG&E Tops SEPA’s Utility Solar Integration Rankings
The utility industry is moving toward mass adoption of solar power despite a tough economic climate, according to a new report from The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA). Solar electricity is...
View ArticleHydroelectric Projected as Leading Source of Renewable Energy
Much of the growth in world use of renewables toward generating electricity is expected to come from hydroelectric projects, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This is especially...
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