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Feb 26 2010

E-waste market to triple as more businesses develop formal policies

Published by Heather Clancy under Uncategorized, green tech, recycling

Was talking to an electronic waste (e-waste) management company CEO yesterday (more on his business next week) who mentioned that something like 30 percent of all Fortune 500 businesses now have some sort of formal strategy for handling the lifecycle management and disposal of their hardware technology. Frankly, this seems pitifully low to me. But [...]

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Feb 26 2010

Even green products need to be designed well

Published by Heather Clancy under green tech

Snow and my schedule prevented me from getting into New York this week to attend the Consumer Electronics Association’s Greener Gadgets conference, but one of my more local colleagues, Andrew Nusca, managed to make it. His coverage, over at our Smart Planet sister blog network, explores the vital role of good design in products that [...]

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Feb 25 2010

What do consumers think of the smart grid? Um, not much

Published by Heather Clancy under green tech

There’s a new poll out from Harris Interactive gauging consumers’ perception of the smart grid and smart meters. Turns out they don’t have much of one. In fact, close to 70 percent of them have never heard of the smart grid and about 63 percent haven’t a clue about smart meters. Those who ARE aware [...]

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Feb 25 2010

Industry, Big Apple trying to negotiate settlement in e-waste case

Published by Heather Clancy under climate change, conservation, green tech, recycling

I’ve reported several times on the status of a case in New York City in which the Consumer Electronics Association and the Information Technology Industry Council have sued the city over its electronic waste collection and processing regulation. My last update on the case was back in late January, so I got to wondering about [...]

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Feb 25 2010

A Special Offer From Our Sponsor

Published by GreenTech Pastures under Uncategorized

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Feb 25 2010

Tech companies plan green IT economic summit near Washington

Published by Heather Clancy under climate change, conservation, energy, engineering, green tech

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 [...]

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Feb 25 2010

The Bloom Box: Kind of like Legos for building a power ’server’

Published by Heather Clancy under energy, renewable energy

Remember how fun it was to stack Legos when you were a kid? What’s that the same sort of scalablility concept beneath the Bloom Energy “box.” Right now, a single fuel cell can power roughly a lightbulb. Want more electricity, build yourself a cube on up to a parking-space-sized server. See for yourself with this ZDNet [...]