Green technology tag
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Green Investment Up 45% - Report
According to Australian IT global investment in green technologies has increased tremendously in the past three years. The Cleantech Venture Network reports that North American and European venture capital investment in “cleantech” hit $US3.6 billion last year, up 45...
Sacramento Greens Up Light Rail
Opportunities to “go green” are all around us. Public transportation has long been considered a useful tool in the march to save the environment. It’s become commonplace see alternative fuel buses in many municipalities across the United States. Now...
Mobile Phone Carbon Footprint
We have to strike a balance between energy usage and greenness. Mobile phone networks do consume tremendous amounts of energy but they are responsible for saving even more. Here are some details on the carbon footprint of mobile networks from...
Vietnam Green Fund
I am intrigued with government initiatives such as this which allow for a trust fund to be set up whose purpose is to help companies go greener. In theory, companies in Vietnam of a certain size who qualify will be...
Buy The Best or Greenest?
When it comes to IT should be green for the sake of the color or should we instead do what makes he most business sense? ComputerWorld has an interesting article on the topic and also delves into what happens when...
IBM and APC Go Green
It really pays to be green if you are a vendor focused on providing power-saving solutions. Witness IBM and APC winning a data infrastructure contract at Bryant University. Interestingly they replaced Sun equipment. In my meetings with Sun executives in...
Yahoo Green Center
I was perusing the Yahoo! Green Center and for the life of me I cannot understand why Honda and Toyota consistently beat American car companies when it comes to styling, innovation and now being green. The top four cars in...
Fujitsu Siemens Primergy TX120
Since when did Fujitsu and Siemens start working together. This has to be the best kept secret around or I have just been napping on the job. But if your company is going to be such a well kept secret...
Big Green
IBM is partnering with top tier investors to help new green technology companies become successful. IBM is able to supply knowledge, experience and even sales leads to promote their new environmentally conscious partners. Here is more from CNN Money....
Shared Computing for a Greener World
Calgary, Alberta-based Useful Corporation announced that their DiscoverStation solution has prevented over 13,000 tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere. In what’s becoming a standard measure of CO2 emissions, that’s equivalent to taking 2,300 cars off the road....
Chicago Goes Green
Chicago like many other cities is trying to become the epicenter of green technology and manufacturing. With financial incentives like promising to buy 5 million dollars worth of green technology from solar thermal energy companies, it seems possible that Chicago...
Are You a Greenocrite?
I have to agree partially with Tom Young of VNUNET when he says companies have to do more to be really green. It is easy to make announcements but backing them up is always a challenge. Still, the trend towards...
Carbon Footprint Calculators
Here is a list of carbon footprint calculators. If you are interested, Nigel’s Eco Blog will be testing some of these over the next few weeks. I tried the BP calculator (Flash version) out and was pretty surprised at how...
Big Green Day
It has been a pretty green day so far today with lots of news to keep our green loving readers on the edge of their carbon-free seats. For example, Cadbury Schweppes will be cutting its net absolute carbon emissions By...
GM Goes Green with ecoFlex
GM is really pushing green with its ecoFlex line of cars. The first will be a Corsa with a 1.3L diesel putting out 119g/km of CO2. Between now and 2012 GM will also introduce sixteen new engine families...
The Benefits of Green
If you are interested in seeing how companies are benefiting from the move to greener technologies, please read these quotes contained in an article on CNN. "It's both great business and a good business -- great in that it...
Save the Planet... Recycle That Fax Machine!
I just received a bit of information that details some of the simpler ways that an enterprise can go green. Decreasing paper consumption is obviously environmentally friendly. (Does anyone remember the paperless office dream?) Another obvious eco-friendly...
Go Green, Make Money
Greg Galitzine discusses an article in the Wall Street Journal about how going green can save you money. This is a great opportunity to let you know going green can also save you money and the tagline for TMC’s upcoming...
New Fuel Economy Standards
The Senate voted today to require average fuel economy of 35 miles per gallon for new cars, pickup trucks and SUVs by 2020, raising efficiency standards that have not changed significantly for nearly twenty years. While many politicians ands automakers...
Green Investing
What is the best and worse green technology investment? Well established engineering businesses and geothermal plays may make the most sense according to analysts. This article has a brief overview of the opportunities in Australia. Ideas worth noting are do...
Toyota Valvematic
Toyota is introducing a green technology known as Valvematic which should allow cars to become 5 to 10 percent more efficient by 2010. The company is working on revamping all its cars and transmissions to be more energy efficient. Of...
Green Airplane Engines
It is comforting to know that while it seems all corporations and governments are under pressure from their customers and constituents to be green, the airplane market is absolutely no exception. See comments from Boeing about the amount of pressure...
Cold Ironing
Either my brain is taking a break or this article is confusing. Well perhaps it can be both at the same time. Regardless… It seems the shipping industry is considering going green and the Port of Oakland is experimenting with...
Carbon Footprint Secrecy
The issue of carbon footprint and the potential to be carbon neutral paired with using this information as a positive PR vehicle can be seriously hampered by a company’s need for secrecy. Google is not a huge fan of letting...
Green WiFi
Something magical happens when you combine solar power and municipal WiFi. You get internet access for a population of 44,000 residents. St. Louis Park, Minnesota is where this green technology implementation is taking place. The WiFi APs will be connected...
