Sunday - May 11, 2008
Apple has been given a failing grade by Climate Counts, and was placed at the bottom of a list of 12 electronics companies also ranked by the organization. Climate Counts ranks companies on their practices to reduce global warming on a scale of zero to 100, and Apple was given a score of 11, some 66 points behind sector leader IBM, which scored a 77. In the second annual Scorecard, Climate Counts evaluated 60 companies in nine different categories. The companies are rated on publicly available information in regards to their own approach, efforts and policies to reduce global warming.
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Tuesday - May 6, 2008
Chief executive officers worldwide believe major change is coming to the global economy and their businesses, according to IBM's biennial study of CEOs. The executives are are also eager to find ways to keep happy consumers who are increasingly information-savvy and who expect the businesses they buy from to be more socially responsible and green.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
Sam's Club warehouse stores are starting a new online recycling program for electronics that will pay for some of the items that customers want to discard. Under the program by Sterling, Va.-based New Customer Service Companies, Sam's Club will help its members dispose of older small- to medium-size electronics. The company has a link to the program on its Web site.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
The next five years or so will spell big trouble for data centers. About 46 percent of more than 150 IT professionals and executives surveyed earlier this year by the Business Performance Management Forum said they're running out of space, power and cooling infrastructure for their data centers.
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Friday - April 25, 2008
The hottest gadgets of today will look old and tired a year from now. Sellers of mobile handsets, smartphones, MP3 players, gaming consoles, camcorders, digital cameras and laptops constantly push the latest and greatest technology, leaving yesterday's choice items in the dust. Then there's the fact that this stuff is pretty easily broken.
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Friday - April 18, 2008
Renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and hydropower are increasingly becoming more popular. In fact, wind power is the fastest-growing energy source in the world. Presently, there are about 30,000 wind turbines operating worldwide, and that number is ever increasing. While this is very encouraging news for our environment, the fact remains that the world will be heavily relying on oil for some time to come.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
When the former vice president of the United States gives a speech at a major technology conference in San Francisco, you'd expect to see a story about it the next day, or -- since it was a technology conference -- later on that same day. You'd see a run-of-the-mill story in the Chronicle, marvel that Gore's still going on about that global warming stuff, then move on to the sports section.
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Saturday - April 12, 2008
One interpretation of the term "green computing" focuses on the machine's energy consumption. The less power a computer needs, the less harm to the environment it does -- and the less the owner has to spend on energy costs. Are those energy savings enough of a reason to make major enterprise buying decisions based in part on how green a computer is?
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Thursday - April 10, 2008
How green is your computer equipment? The answer could provide insight into how much electricity you aren't buying each month to run your computers and peripherals. It can also provide a clue to how much long-term harm your computing activity is having on the world around you. The question of green computing becomes more intense as energy issues move from the home office to the corporate office.
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Thursday - March 27, 2008
Pay a bill, save a tree. That, in essence, is the message of a study that the PayItGreen Alliance made public on Tuesday. The alliance was formed last October to add environmental stewardship to the already-established assets of convenience and data security of online banking, bill paying and check cashing.
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Wednesday - March 26, 2008
Xerox on Tuesday introduced software designed to help customers save money and aim for energy efficiency by measuring the impact of its equipment on the environment. The Norwalk, Conn.-based equipment manufacturer's "sustainability calculator" evaluates how customers use their equipment and measures how much savings can be achieved in the use of energy and paper, production of solid waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
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