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Given that mobile phones are such an increasingly large part of American lives — the Pew Internet & American Life organization recently reported that roughly 95 percent of U.S. adults use one — I’ve been thinking more and more about which wireless telecommunications carriers and mobile handset/smartphone makers are doing their part from a green [...]

Korea’s LG Electronics, one of the biggest names in mobile phones, digital signage and appliances, is eying another potentially huge business: the market for green lighting technology. Specifically the opportunity for light emitting diode (LED) technology.
LG has already amassed a number of official energy efficiency, quality and safety certifications for its LED lighting and plasma [...]

In a sure sign of the clean-tech sector’s shifting priorities, a water purification technology company called Puralytics has won the 2010 National Cleantech Open competition.
The Puralytics technology is designed to work by using LEDs or natural sunlight to remove contaminants such as petrochemicals or trace pharmaceuticals from water without creating wastewater or other chemicals that [...]

Let’s start with the energy efficiency features of Fujitsu’s new Primergy BX400, a blade enclosure system designed for the needs of midsize businesses that the company plans to ship in December.
According to the spec sheets, the technology — which can accommodate up to eight server or storage blades in the enclosure — uses up to [...]

For the most part, the companies that many of us consider green IT leaders are still focused on the rather narrow goal of better energy efficiency and improved lifecycle management strategies for their products rather than any revelatory strategies that more explicitly position their technology as a way of helping a business getting greener holistically.
That’s [...]

Because games are a big part of the Christmas season tradition and Black Friday is just two days away now, it makes sense that green advocates would seek to sneak in subtle Pavlovian-like behavior algorithms into an emerging crop of online applications and cyber-games that encourage green behavior. I wrote about this trend last month [...]

When market research and advisory firm Gartner decided to remove green data centers from its list of strategic imperatives for 2011, the decision was met with some gnashing of teeth. But, frankly, the decision didn’t really surprise me all that much because energy efficiency, space optimization, infrastructure consolidation, and proper disposal of outdated technologies have [...]

One rather controversial topic that I always consider carefully before covering is carbon capture and sequestration technology. These are technologies designed to help existing “dirty” generation technologies, such as coal-fired power plants, reduce their carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions. Purists would say they just mask the problem (I’m somewhere in the middle on this [...]

People Power Co., a start-up helmed by long-time Silicon Valley executive Gene Wang, has developed what it calls the Energy Services Platform (ESP), which is essentially a cloud-served application for monitoring and control the electricity usage of various devices in your home or office. (Disclosure, Wang is a friend of mine from when I lived [...]