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RSS carbon footprintWebcast: Five Steps to a Greener Data Center
White Paper Listen as IBM environmental experts discuss new and innovative IT solutions intended to help your business save energy, reduce its carbon footprint, and lower its cooling costs. View this webcast now. [30 Nov 2007]
IT departments told - must get greener
News Speaking at the Carbon Footprint IT Summit in London this week, Sun commercial director, UK and Ireland, Sue Wilkinson, said it was time IT departments started to take a serious interest in the energy consumption of their organisation. [29 Nov 2007]
Youngsters told: Wise up with social networking
News A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE is for Energy sourcesF is for FreecycleG is for GovernmentH is for HomeworkingI is for Ice capsJ is for Jobs (Steve) K is for KilowattsL is for LandfillM is for MercuryN... [23 Nov 2007]
Photos: Tech predicts future of London transport
Photo She asks visitors if they have enough carbon credits to pay for a journey, suggesting that in the future your travel may be limited by your carbon footprint. This one is the 'Carbon Controlled' scenario. [23 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... in defence of Leopard, trash talk, iWant iPhone, lost data...
Comment Now they are using this years silly soundbite for all crap policies to claim that chipping bins will 'reduce the carbon footprint' and 'combat climate change'.it will just waste money by putting a worthless chip into a bin so they can charge... [08 Nov 2007]
The greening of IT: Do it yourself
Comment About 50 per cent of IT's carbon footprint is generated by the office. Electricity-hogging data centres may attract the environmentalists' ire but the humble office has a lot to answer for in terms of carbon emissions, says Futurity Media's Stewart... [02 Nov 2007]
Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms
Photo The project will cost up to £250m and will use third party funding and renewable energy partners to help the telecoms giant reduce its carbon emissions. BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent of its existing UK... [19 Oct 2007]
Green IT - do companies really care?
News While two-thirds said their organisation has a board-level executive responsible for energy and the environment, only 45 per cent of businesses have a programme in place to reduce their carbon footprint. [27 Sep 2007]
Tesco aims to cut data-centre carbon footprint
News Tesco is reducing air conditioning in data centres and checking the energy consumption of new equipment as part of the supermarket giant's plans to reduce its carbon footprint. Tesco has pledged to halve carbon emissions from existing stores by... [25 Sep 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment But a significant contributor to reducing the carbon footprint has been its data centre strategy. Consider the carbon footprint of burning DVDs and shipping them to an out-of-town video library. It's not often you can say BT displayed considerable... [21 Sep 2007]
Make tech greener, CIOs told
News Speaking at a European e-government conference in Lisbon, Cabinet Office minister Gillian Merron called on the UK's CIO Council to reduce the carbon footprint of government computers and improve the sustainability of public sector IT.silicon.com... [21 Sep 2007]
Sun touts energy-efficient data centre drive
News Sun said it has cut the number of racks of its own servers from 95 to five, which it said had reduced its carbon footprint by one per cent. The company has undertaken considerable research into this area, according to Barrington, and has generated... [22 Aug 2007]
Insurer integrates four data centres
News Consumer insurance company Paymentshield has completed a technology upgrade as part of a four-into-one office move, reducing its carbon footprint by 76 per cent and saving £6,500 a year on electricity costs. [09 Aug 2007]
Council switches off PCs to save £40,000
News The "ingenious software" is a simple and effective way of cutting the council's carbon footprint and saving cash, he said. Staffordshire County Council has developed software that detects and turns off idle PCs and could cut £40,000 per year off... [26 Jul 2007]
How tech can make us greener
Comment Still there are ways technology can be used to neutralise the growing carbon footprint. As most technology products are based on silicon, we could regard this as a 'silicon offset', as opposed to a 'carbon offset'. [24 May 2007]
