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If you’re confused about which of the carbon emissions management software applications might be appropriate for your company, it may interest you to know that one of the world’s largest IT services companies, Dimension Data, has just opted for an offering from Enviance.
DiData plans to use Enviance software to centralize all of its carbon footprint [...]

Sometimes its the small victories that mean the most. Call2Recycle, a company that offers free recycling for mobile phones and rechargeable batteries, reports that e-cycling for batteries in particular is way up in several southern states. Here are the stats:

South Caroline (up 99 percent)
Kentucky (up 59 percent)
Arkansas (up 55 percent)
North Carolina (up 53 percent)
Mississippi (up [...]

Well, here’s a refreshing bit of news for a Monday afternoon: A new data set released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reports that we used a lot less coal and petroleum last year, compared with 2008. Meanwhile, there were demonstrable increases in the use of renewable energy sources, especially generation systems based on wind [...]

Remember Gary Bloom? The former enterprise software executive who made his mark at both Oracle and Veritas? Well, now he’s aiming to make smart meters even smarter. Bloom recently caught up with my SmartPlanet colleague Deborah Gage. Find out why he believes we can solve the inefficiencies of the electric grid with software, why consumers [...]

A British developer, Qreative Medias, has introduced a Home Energy Performance application that works on iPhones and iPads. The idea is that you can either rate your own property OR check out the energy profile of a home you might be thinking about buying. The application cooks up several different types of energy efficiency scores, [...]

It is the rare company that doesn’t trumpet its progress or policy changes with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, but apparently hardware company Lenovo has updated same.
The biggest shift is that Lenovo is now embracing absolute reductions. That goes for its Scope 1 emissions — it will buy enough offsets to cancel out its impact [...]

OK, so you have a few more hours to sign up for today’s Power IT Down Day, an effort organized to help make companies and individuals aware of the potential electricity savings. All you have to do is turn your computer and related peripherals off when you leave the office tonight. Easy, huh?
When I [...]

I say the best way to know what to expect out of the world’s biggest tech companies in terms of what YOU can use in your own operation is to look at the approaches they are taking to their own IT operations. I’m in the ‘do-as-I-do’ school on green IT policies.
So, it was with interest [...]

The list of companies with intelligent energy management platforms continues to mushroom