Archive for the 'environmental health' 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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Apr 20 2010

Upstarts work toward greener, more efficient solar technology

Have had conversations in the past few weeks with two very different companies that actually have a pretty similar mission, if you dig deeper: Making solar technology as green and energy-efficient as possible. I’m sure there are many more companies like these in the wings, so I’ll make it a point to keep an eye [...]

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Apr 20 2010

Government raises bar on green tech standards for the home

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to make the requirements for earning an Energy Star designation for your home more rigorous. The standards are supposed to result in the creation of new homes that about 20 percent more energy-efficient than those conforming to the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code. This would translate into utility [...]

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Apr 19 2010

TREES grows in Brooklyn

Carbon accounting software developer TRIRIGA has scored another high-profile reference account for its TREES environmental sustainability software: New York City. (TREES stands for TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability.) The city government will be using the software to manage carbon emissions and energy consumption information across more than 4,000 government buildings. This is no small project: New [...]

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Apr 14 2010

Intel gets personal about energy consumption management

If Intel has its way, its technology will soon be inside not just your personal computer but inside another piece of technology that is way more ubiquitous: the panel you use to control the heat or air-conditioning in your home or office. This week, at the Intel Developer Forum in China, the company is showing off [...]

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Mar 21 2010

LA airports get on the fast track to carbon reporting

One of the first customers for the new Enviance FastTrack program is the Los Angeles World Airports group, which operates three airports in southern California, including LAX. The airport system says it has “the same complex emissions requirements and reporting challenges as a medium-sized city.” After all, it operates the third-busiest airport in the United [...]

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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 11 2010

EnerNOC takes an integrated approach to energy management

I’ve written about energy management company EnerNOC in the demand response sense, based on the work that it is doing to help companies with generating capacity reduce their grid dependency in peak demand situations. (As a reminder, here’s my post about how EnerNOC is working with a New York-based data center operator to help it [...]

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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 09 2010

CA formalizes relationships with energy-efficiency partners

Three new companies have allied themselves with the ecoSoftware business unit at CA. That means they offer technologies or services that work with CA ecoSoftware, which is an application for managing information about corporate sustainability, carbon footprint, operational energy and other environmental factors. CA’s three new partners are: Global Green Consulting Group, which is a sustainability performance [...]

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