Archive for the 'green tech' Category

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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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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Mar 08 2010

E-waste processor targets corporate tech lifecycle challenges

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 [...]

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Mar 08 2010

Caltech claims quantum leap in solar tech

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are claiming a breakthrough in solar chip design that they believe will help make solar technology more efficient–and cheaper. I’m not a solar scientist, but the researchers apparently have achieved this by embedding silicon wire arrays throughout the design. This helps enhance the cell’s ability to absorb sunlight [...]

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Mar 05 2010

Another case for ditching spreadsheets as environmental info collection tool

You’ll notice increasing coverage of some of the environmental management software packages here in GreenTech Pastures, because it is one the topics I’m trying to research more thoroughly. There are a couple of new products expected out next week. Meanwhile, just posted this mini-case study over at my Smart Planet blog, discussing how refining company [...]

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Mar 05 2010

How do you figure out if one vehicle is greener than another? Telematics

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 [...]

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Mar 05 2010

Dialight targets municipal street light retrofits with energy-efficient LED

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 [...]

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Mar 03 2010

Equinix gets LEED nod for environmental credentials at Silicon Valley data center retrofit

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 [...]

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Mar 03 2010

Dell updates OptiPlex green credentials

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 [...]

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