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Following on from my earlier post about the importance of turning things off, we had a briefing the other day from a company called 1E.
1E entered the power management space about 10 years ago when they wrote NightWatchman. NightWatchman is a PC power management application which aims to reduce the energy wasted [...]
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The Dell ReGeneration site has a great post, with super links, on how Google Earth has become a tool for activists and academics working on environmental issues. See http://bit.ly/ltd8N .
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I received an email over the holidays from someone who was building a data center and who wanted some advice on how to make it Greener. I replied with a few suggestions from my experience building the hyper energy-efficient data center at CIX and then thought why not flesh out my response [...]
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I guess the first question should be does your company have a Sustainability Communications Program? If not, why not?
As I mentioned in my last post, it is now time for everyone to
band together not only at national levels, but at company and community levels to [...]
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Graph courtesy of the UK’s Climate Research Unit
The graph above, taken from the UK’s Climate Research Unit, is very sobering. I first noticed the graph when Joseph Romm did an excellent analysis of it on his Climate Progress site.
A few points to note from Joe’s piece:
* the 2000s are on track to be nearly 0.2°C [...]
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I received a press release from HP the other day informing me that HP have
qualified all business PC, printing and server products shipped throughout the United States and Canada for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay logo labeling program
Perhaps the SmartWay program is well known within the United States but I hadn’t [...]
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In June of this year, Dell re-asserted its aim of becoming the Greenest Technology company on the planet with a post which included nuggets like:
recycled 102 million pounds of IT equipment from customers during 2007, a 20 percent increase over 2006
became the first major computer manufacturer to offer desktop customers Silver 80 PLUS-certified power supplies
the [...]
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