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The tier one technology companies ala Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM all view for green IT headlines on a weekly basis, but there is plenty of innovation going on among smaller players. Super Micro, for example, just showed off new server technology during the CeBit computer show in Hannover, Germany. The common theme in the products it [...]

Here’s something to think about: What prompted you to buy your current car? Was it the fuel efficiency or was it how it looked and rode? The stereo? The safety features? Based on your responses, I’m sure it will not shock you to hear consumers are sick of being asked to give up things like [...]

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 [...]

The latest version of Faronics‘ PowerSave application (version 4.1) includes two new features that are intended to address potential security concerns associated with waking up a computer once it  has entered standby or hibernate mode to save power. First, the software now requires the user to enter their system password, if it is being used in [...]

I think a lot about which companies that I’ve been covering for zillions of years will be around 10 years from now, as the Internet moves into its next phase of innovation around things like machine to machine communications, which is sort of personified in the smart grid. If you think Microsoft and IBM and [...]

You really can’t make this stuff up. Apparently, there is a climate scientist at Stanford University’s Carnegie Institute who is working on a project that aims to pump cool water in the ocean tropics to try to discourage the development of hurricanes. The research, which is discussed in this video over at our SmartPlanet sister [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

OK, my bad. I promised in a post about electronic waste a couple of weeks ago to write about a newish company that is getting more active with Fortune 500 type companies, and then promptly spaced out during a whirlwind of other things last week. So, here’s that promised post, which is about a player [...]