Glass houses, stones, etc. That’s the sort of lesson coming out from the latest round in the Greenpeace vs. Facebook skirmish currently afoot on the internet.
To recap, briefly: In January, Facebook told the world it was opening a green data center, one that set a ...read more
LONDON, United Kingdom — Construction and project-management firm Bovis Lend Lease announced today that, 10 months after installing 1e’s Nightwatchman software, it was already one-third of the way to achieving its corporate-wide energy efficiency goals.
Putting the PC power management software to work on 3,000 computers ...read more
This report from the Blue Green Alliance, the Sierra Club, the Communications Workers of America and the Progressive States Network, explores how technologies including smart buildings, smart grids, teleconferencing and digital education opportunities can cut carbon emissions and create and retain green jobs in the ...read more
WASHINGTON, DC — In the run-up to the release of the federal government’s national broadband plan, a coalition of groups are detailing the ways that green technologies can grow the economy while cutting the country’s carbon footprint.
The report, “Networking the Green Economy: How Broadband and ...read more
Handling electronic waste has long been a kind of free-for-all zone for companies and recyclers alike. With few regulations in the United States and little awareness from companies about the problems e-waste poses, firms have been able to simply hand off their unwanted equipment to ...read more
BALI, Indonesia — A new report from the U.N. Environment Programme finds that electronics purchases in growing economies and increased exports from the U.S. and Europe will sharply increase in the next decade.
Skyrocketing sales of gadgets, cell phones and other electronics in China, India, ...read more
This report from the U.N. Environment Programme looks at the growth of e-waste generated by and sent to developing nations, and suggests ways to reduce the health and environmental impacts from discarded electronics.
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EAST FISHKILL, NY — IBM has become the first in its industry to eliminate the use of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) compounds from its chip manufacturing processes, the company announced Monday. The two compounds are known to be toxic to humans and ...read more
Who would have thought that one of the world’s hottest, richest companies would spend about a third of its annual meeting discussing sustainability, melting glaciers and the finer points of reporting about greenhouse gas emissions? That’s what happened at today’s Apple Inc. ...read more
Packaging — especially wasteful packaging — has become a bright spot on the radar for companies and iniduals that are working on reducing their environmental impacts. But even the most proactive companies are finding that the problem can’t simply be addressed in-house.
In my work in ...read more
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