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Organic Retailer Touts Fuel Cell Powered Supermarket

Whole Foods is announcing the opening of the first supermarket in the world to use fuel cell technology to power its store.   According to a company news release, Whole Foods is leveraging fuel cell technology to generate half of...

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Intel Pledges Green For Green's Sake

TMCnet’s Stefania Viscusi has the latest on Intel’s purchase of over 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates as part of a multi-faceted approach to reduce its impact on the environment.   This commitment makes Intel the...

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WSJ: US Seeks to Lower Green Trade Barriers

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that diplomats representing several of the world's biggest economies will gather in Hawaii for discussions regarding a new international agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.   According to the story, “The meeting isn't expected...

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Green Earth Gets Funding

  Green Earth Technologies Inc. has received about $2.4 million in investment funding from Founder's Technology and eight angel investors.   Green Earth Technologies, a consumer goods manufacturer, produces “G”-Branded green products made entirely from American Grown Base Oils based...

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IXYS Joins Climate Savers Computing Initiative

IXYS Corporation, a Silicon Valley power semiconductor company, today announced that it has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative at the Affiliate level.   “Power conversion efficiency has been our core focus since the company started in 1983. We began...

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Toronto Star: Will New Social Climate Lead to Green?

The Toronto Star has an item today about green living and a message to the citizenry of Ontario that going green doesn’t have to be all about sacrifice.   Amid messages of new technologies and altering lifestyles, Canadians looking to...

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Forrester: In Search of Green Tech Consumers

As the environmental movement has gained momentum, one of the key questions facing companies that felt pressure to “green up” was “would consumers pay more for green tech and related products?”   Well, according to a recent Forrester Research poll,...

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Survey: Contact Centers Seeing Green

An “on the conference floor” survey of executives attending the CCA Annual Convention, conducted on behalf of Softlab, finds that contact centers are seeing green, much like their IT counterparts.   According to the survey authors:   Businesses across all...

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Business Link in UK Intros New Green Business Web Site

UK-based businesses have a new tool to help them be more “green.” BusinessLink.gov.uk, a resource Web site for businesses, part of the UK government’s Business.Gov agency, this week added a new section devoted to green business practices.   The “Environmental...

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Companies Can be 'Green' With the Technology They Already Have

Lots gets written about these days regarding new types of technology that can help companies be more ‘green.’ These include everything from vehicle engines designed to run on corn-based fuel, computer chips that require less power to run, and revamped...

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Green Barbeque

It isn’t easy eating green but the good news is your backyard cookouts aren’t as bad for the environment as you might think. Still there are things you can do to become an even better world citizen. Make sure you...

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TANDBERG

Rick Snyder, president of TANDBERG Americas, recently took the time to answer questions about the telecommunications industries role in the green movement, his company’s efforts to stay ahead of the pack and the upcoming Green Technology World Conference this September...

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Green Technology Conference

Please accept my invitation to be part of TMC’s newest event. Here is a recent invitation we sent out. In case you missed it, here it is. Hope to see you at this show. Our attendance is already ahead of...

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Morgan Stanely to Offer Carbon Offset Service

If you though the green movment was a passing fancy, think again. All you need to do is heed the age-old adage: Follow the Money. In a follow-on to last year’s proclamation from Morgan Stanley that the firm would invest...

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Burgers Far From Green

Eight Quarter Pounders generate the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as driving for three hours while burning a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days. And you wonder why you get a stomach ache after you eat fast food. :-)...

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Plant a Tree for Six Dollars

For a paltry six dollars you can have a tree planted for you in order to soak up a ton of carbon dioxide. A federal agency the U.S. Forest Service and a non-profit group the National Forest Foundation came together...

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American Airlines Plans Green Marketing Push

As I was flying back from a trip to the West coast, trying to calculate how much it would take to offset my carbon usage, I came across a Wall Street Journal report that said that American Airlines, the world’s...

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Bahrain Pushes for Green Investment

  The greening of technology and the move to sustainability is by no means limited to North America and Europe. In fact in a recent blog entry, Rich points out that The Viet Nam Cleaner Production Center and the Swiss...

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The World's Top Sustainable Stocks

SustainableBusiness.com announced its 2007 Sustainable Business 20 (SB20) List, which comprises the World’s Top Sustainable Stocks in their view.   According to the SustainableBuisiness.com Web site:   The SB20 list, in its sixth year, consists of 20 public companies that...

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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....

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Live Earth More Harm Than Good?

A reader posted a comment to the Live Earth Update blog entry, essentially asking if it wasn’t a contradiction to even have an event, which would by its very nature generate lots of trash and generate huge amounts of carbon...

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Canalys Asks Who is Willing to Pay More for 'Green' Technology

With all the talk about ‘being green’ these days, it can be easy to forget that environmentally-conscious products may cost more to make and/or buy, in terms of dollars, than their less earth-friendly counterparts. Industry research firm Canalys recently decided...

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Green Credit Card to Help Reduce Carbon

Barclaycard has launched the “UK’s first credit card aimed at helping to tackle climate change and promoting greener spending.”   That’s a lot to put on the back of a little piece of plastic.   In fact, it’s no longer...

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How Green Is Your Utility Company?

  I was just surfing around, looking for green goodies, and I came across this site called The Daily Green, The Consumer’s Guide to the Green Revolution, that featured a link to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tool called Power...

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Green Theme at France Investment Confab

This just in from EuroNews.net…   Apparently the environment is a major theme at an annual investment conference going on in France.   The report says that the 900 business leaders taking part in this year’s “La Baule World Investment Conference”...

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Big Blue Goes Green

IBM is adding 80,000 square feet of green datacenter space to its existing Boulder Colorado facility. The plan calls for state-of-the-art technology that will help IBM reduce energy expenditures.   The new data center will serve as a proof of...

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Google to be Carbon Neutral by Year's End

We’ve already discussed how Google and Intel have pledged their efforts to the green movement by launching the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.   Now comes word of Google promising to become carbon neutral by the end of the year.  ...

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Red, White, And ... Green?

The U.S. House of Representatives Chief Administration Officer issued a report yesterday that pledges to slash the House’s energy consumption by up to 50% by 2017.   In a “Green the Capitol” initiative the House also pledges that it will...

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Ontario Pledges $650 Million for Green Technology

The Ottawa Citizen is reporting that Ontario, Canada is pledging up to $650 million in provincial funding to develop green cars and other technologies in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.   Premier Dalton McGuinty outlined a set of...

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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...

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Top 10 Green Ideas

Have you ever wanted to go green but weren’t sure the best way to go about it? What are the top 10 ways to go green you ask? Well here is a list from Worldwatch Institute.   1)      Walk or...

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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...

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Verdiem Joins Climate Savers

Verdiem, a developer of power management software for PC networks, has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (see previous blog entry here).   “We are excited to work closely with this group of public and private sector leaders to help...

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Computers Need to go Green

Articles like this one really show how the typical PC has a way to go before it becomes green. Or at least much greener. Computers generate as much as 35 mullions tons of gas each year and this equates to...

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GreenPrint To Pay the Fortune 500 To Go Green

GreenPrint has a plan.   They’re giving away their software.   GreenPrint’s software is designed to eliminate unwanted pages saving paper, ink, money, and millions of trees. You know, those blank pages that litter the garbage and recycle bins around...