Mar
30
2010
Oh goody, another eco-label that we get to suss out and assess for relevance! Seriously, though, I just got word that the Dell OptiPlex 908 has been blessed with the TCO Certified designation, which focuses on environmental and high-performance design. This is a label recognized worldwide.
TCO Certified, spearheaded by an organization that hails out of [...]
Mar
19
2010
IBM is teaming up with the Energy Technologies Institute in the United Kingdom to figure out what sort of charging infrastructure will be required for the rollout of electric vehicles there.
Other organizations involved in the study are EDF Energy, E.ON and Imperial Consultants. The study is being undertaken as the British government preps to plunk [...]
Mar
18
2010
There’s a new version out of EarthSoft’s EQuIS Data Gathering Engine (EDGE) software, which is used for collecting environmental data by field crews. One of the notable new features is GPS support, along with an electronic sketchpad that lets you marry data to aerial photos, site plans or other templates related to a field location [...]
Mar
09
2010
If your company is struggling with how to start reporting carbon emissions information quickly, there is a new service from environmental software company Enviance that may be appropriate.
P.S., you’re not exactly alone in this. Apparently close to 61 percent of companies still don’t have any sort of carbon emissions tracking system in place.
The Enviance Greenhouse [...]