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Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment To sustain focus and support for a green IT strategy, CIOs must select granular performance metrics that enable comparison and prioritisation, such as percentage of equipment entered into recycling programs and power... [21 Oct 2009]
Improving Rack Cooling Performance Using Airflow Management Blanking Panels
White Paper Unused vertical space in open frame racks and rack enclosures creates an unrestricted recycling of hot air that causes equipment to heat up unnecessarily. The use of airflow management blanking panels can reduce this... [01 Oct 2009]
Deron Beal
AS Profile The founding tenet of Freecycle is that reusing is even better for the environment than recycling and Beal's idea of harnessing the web to facilitate reuse has clearly been a winner, albeit not for the local newspaper... [29 Sep 2009]
HP Thermal Logic for Integrity Server Capabilities and the Impact to Your Business: Technical Brief, V1.0
White Paper The environmental responsibility of HP goes beyond its recycling initiatives. A stronger emphasis on Energy Efficiency for servers and data centers is emerging in the IT industry. This paper identifies the different data... [02 Sep 2009]
The Environmental Product Lifecycle: Environmentally Conscious Product End of Life
White Paper HP has long played a leading role in eco-aware product end-of-life issues; and with its Asset Recovery management program, it provides a solid infrastructure to assist its customers in extending the life of their IT products when... [02 Sep 2009]
The perfect device for the developing world is not the PC
Comment Whereas the recycling of PCs has struggled due to high costs and security concerns, the recycling of mobile phones is simple and cost effective. As a person inhabiting what is commonly called a developed... [27 Aug 2009]
Smarter Ways to Green: How to Make Sustainability Succeed in Your Business
White Paper And it has inspired a tidal wave of exciting green developments that ranges from recycling, renewable energy and hybrid cars to the redesign of products, packaging, factories and manufacturing processes. [31 Jul 2009]
Realizing Cost and Energy Savings on Campus
White Paper The University of California, Davis: used printer trade-in value and HP PurchasEdge points, earned by purchasing and recycling HP cartridges to purchase new HP printers with ENERGY STAR certification and duplexing... [30 Jul 2009]
Greener IT, Greener Education
White Paper There is a widespread commitment to increased recycling. Because of all the trends, green IT is moving up the agenda of IT professionals in higher and further education. In a recent poll3 of members by Universities and... [14 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful?
Comment Sort of reminds me of recycling and 'green' issues which seem to be on a similar bender of invisible inefficiencies. As a young man I worked in a number of 'mom and pop' stores and small businesses before joining a... [28 May 2009]
'Green shoots of recovery? What green shoots?'
News Consumer confidence is also likely to be in the doldrums for a long time to come, according to Mark Beattie, CIO of waste management and recycling company LondonWaste, who added: "I think it's very hard to see what... [20 May 2009]
Green Computing, Technology's Contribution to a Greener Planet
White Paper These efforts include waste recycling, alternative (water, solar, and wind) energy usage, and the production of hybrid automobiles. There is an increased urgency for protecting the environment. There are a number of... [17 May 2009]
Yahoo! opens up for future
News The winning hack this year was Open FreeCycle which makes the online recycling community Freecycle searchable using the Yahoo Mail API, the Yahoo! Yahoo! is putting it's faith in openness to attract more users to its... [15 May 2009]
From IT sales to stand-up comedy
Comment Once you've done your work in IT you can recycle it, whereas in comedy I've got quite a big following so if I keep recycling my material they won't come and see me. Or the one about the techie and his unusual second life? [14 Apr 2009]
Data Center VRLA Battery End-of-Life Recycling Procedures
White Paper Contrary to popular belief, the recycling of lead-acid batteries, which are the most common batteries found in data centers, is one of the most successful recycling systems that the world has ever seen. [18 Mar 2009]
