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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 [...]

You may or may not have heard about the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, which is a competition designed to highlight the possibilities of alternative fuels and ultra-efficient vehicles. The prize is $10 million, no small potatoes. The challenge isn’t small either: The competitors are being asked to engineer production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 miles [...]

Eying municipal retrofits mandated by Federal Energy Policy Act (EPACT 2005) and the Energy Independence and Security Act, Dialight has introduced its latest LED luminaire for street lighting applications. The regulations in question require that conventional mercury lamps and other fixtures between 150 and 500 watts in capacity be replaced by more energy-efficient alternatives. The Dialight [...]

What does it take to earn the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) nod for a data center? I’m told it’s not an easy task, but operator Equinix has just gotten the nod for its SV2 International Business Exchange facility in Silicon Valley, California. LEED is actually a building design verification that looks at whether [...]

Quick update on Dell’s OptiPlex desktop product line: The company has introduced a new edition, called OptiPlex 980, that boasts a power supply that is 90 percent energy efficient. The chassis also uses more post-consumer recycled materials than previous generations of the technology, and OptiPlex 980 meets both Energy Star 5.0 and the EPEAT gold [...]

Federal CIO gets with the green IT program, calling for a massive data center consolidation designed to improve energy efficiency.

Talked to one of the companies involved in this conference a couple of weeks ago. If you’re located in the Washington, D.C., area, and you have shoveled out by late April, there is a Green IT Economic Summit being held in Tysons Corner, Va., on April 22, 2010. I have nothing to do with the [...]

LED lamp for lighting road signs boasts 60 percent to 70 percent energy savings over traditional rivals.

LED lamp for lighting road signs boasts 60 percent to 70 percent energy savings over traditional rivals.

Lens on efficiency: Printing giant HP updates retail photo-production technology with energy, chemical waste in mind.