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It stands to reason that if your company makes a product that strives to help others be greener you should look at ways to green your own internal operations.
Such is the case with PTR Baler and Compactor Company, a fourth-generation Philadelphia maker of cardboard balers, compactors and other waste management systems. PTR CEO Michael Savage [...]

When, exactly, did cars become considered consumer electronics? I suppose when the market for the gadgets inside them became one that that the likes of Microsoft cannot ignore. In any case, electric vehicles will be featured for the first time at the Consumer Electronics Association’s 2011 International CES. The rationale? CEA has just released a [...]

Intelligent LED lighting tech company Digital Lumens is offering up information about one of its first major customers: Food distributor Maines Paper & Food Service from Conklin, N.Y., reports that it has cut its lighting-related energy usage by 87 percent through an upgrade to the Digital Lumens technology.
The facility was especially hard to retrofit because [...]

Going through the Dell corporate sustainability report published earlier this week in a bit more detail and wanted to report more specifically on the results of the company’s efforts to reduce packaging for certain products. You might recall that Dell has a threefold focus when it comes to packaging:

Reducing the size
Using materials that are more [...]

Described as a social network for buildings, the Building Network Dashboard from Lucid Design Group provides a way for managers to track consumption on an hour-by-hour basis.
What makes the software social are apps that allow you to compare your metrics with those of your peers (or not). When it comes to incenting new behavior, [...]

My friends over at One Block Off the Grid (1BOG) have launched a solar group purchase program that has organized a 15 percent discount for Pittsburgh area homeowners that are interested in installing solar technology. The effort, which runs until Nov. 24, 2010, is being supported locally by Astrum Solar. Astrum handles small commercial and [...]

Some of the best-read posts in this blog over time have covered a topic that continues to bubble up in the public consciousness: how to get rid of the computers and mobile phones and printers and consumer electronics gadgets that we have outgrown or overused.
This burgeoning issue of electronic waste, or e-waste for those of [...]

LED maker Lighting Science Group has designed a new series of LED streetlights called the Prolific DC Series. The big deal about this technology is that the lights can be powered by solar- or wind-generated electricity, which means simply that they don’t need to be connected to a community’s traditional electric grid.
The lights are being [...]

Dell has published its latest corporate responsibility report today. While I know you may be interested in what the company is doing from an operations standpoint to improve its stance toward the environment, what you really care about from a green-tech perspective is how the company is redesigning its products. So here are some of [...]

Received a note from someone at Santa Clara University, which is currently running a “boot camp” on social entrepreneurship as part of the Global Social Benefit Incubator. One of the big pushes for this year’s program is renewable energy. But what caught my attention as I was reading this email was the highlight on solar [...]