Archive for the 'air pollution' Category

Apr 23 2010

Why environmental management modules will become integral to ERP

And so it begins. Oracle revealed this week that one of its business partners, developer Ndevr, has created a greenhouse gas management and reporting module that fits in with its core Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne financials applications. Actually, it doesn’t just fit, it is pre-integrated. To me, this development is significant because it [...]

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Mar 30 2010

Dell desktop earns nod under TCO enviro-ergo certification

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 [...]

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Mar 19 2010

U.K. research project studies impact of electric vehicles on grid

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 [...]

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Mar 18 2010

EarthSoft updates environmental data collection software

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 [...]

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Mar 09 2010

Get on the fast track to carbon emissions reporting

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 [...]

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Mar 08 2010

Designing bad stuff out of tech isn’t an easy thing to do

How much time does it take to design an environmentally questionable material OUT of a product? Recent news out of IBM provides some perspective on just how tricky this can be. Early in March, the technology giant said it has eliminated two compounds known to have adverse long-time impacts from its chip manufacturing program. Those two [...]

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Feb 23 2010

IBM, Ricoh team on print manager that tracks costs AND carbon

IBM and Ricoh bid to bring more sustainability discipline to office devices.

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Feb 04 2010

Digital system to monitor a greenhouse gas in California

Methane emissions to be measured in California, a pioneering monitoring program in U.S.

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Feb 04 2010

Digital system to monitor a greenhouse gas in California

Methane emissions to be measured in California, a pioneering monitoring program in U.S.

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Feb 04 2010

Corn chips or biofuel? Feds push for more ethanol

EPA rules that ethanol is greener than gasoline.

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