2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. Quotes

    1. “ Renewable power has nowhere to go except to continue to climb. ”
      By Stephen Galowitz
    2. “ Purchasing is very active in the company's dialogue with suppliers to see how we can work together to get this 80% down. ”
      By Erin Meezan

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  1. Green supplier report: Purchasing counts the carbons

    purchasing.com (Feb 11 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind

    1. Green supplier report: Purchasing counts the carbons Purchasing departments are playing key roles in company campaigns to reduce their carbon footprint from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Purchasing has been looking for energy savings since long before climate change science fingered GHG as a contributing cause. Aside from finding greener energy sources and contributing to energy efficiency innovations, they are involved in changing the materials buy or moving to processes that emit less CO2 and other gasses. "There has been surge of interest over the last year and half in inquiries about GHG emissions," says James Solo, vice president at Trucost, a U.K.-based consulting firm that assists companies in tracking and mitigating their emissions. "Just getting a handle on which operations generate emissions can be a challenge," Solo says. (Read Full Article)

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