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The Biggest Green Market? Seven Reasons Why It's Green IT
Explore Article Greentech Media (10 hours, 45 min ago)
Over the past few weeks, I've had a number of meetings with engineers, executives and investors and such, and I keep coming away with the same conclusion. The fastest-growing and arguably most attractive segment in alternative energy and energy efficiency lies in hardware, software and networking equipment. Yep, green IT.
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Greenpeace Asks Facebook To ‘Unfriend’ Coal
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 1 2010)
Greenpeace has intensified its campaign against Facebook’s use of coal-fired electricity, with a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, and a Facebook group that now has half-a-million members. The head of the environmental campaign group has written directly to the boss of the social network giant, following news that Facebook plans to double the size of a data centre in Oregon which has been criticised for using coal-based electricity. At the same time, 500,000 people have signed up to ask Facebook to “unfriend coal“.
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AT&T expands corporate solar capacity
Explore Article SmartPlanet (Aug 25 2010)
Telecommunications carrier AT&T is working with utility company SunEdison to activate up to 2 megawatts of solar capacity in California by the end of the second quarter of 2011. The deal is part of AT&T’s program to aggressively step up its solar investments moving forward. The first site under the deal with SunEdison is being activated on a rooftop in San Diego. The other sites will be located in Dunnigan, Commerce, Mojave, Santa Ana and West Sacramento.
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Clean tech faces muddy future
Explore Article Columbian.com (Aug 22 2010)
Southwest Washington’s emerging clean-technology industry could face long-term setbacks if the U.S. Congress fails to pass a comprehensive energy policy this year, state and local leaders say. Both the House and Senate this session have debated energy bills that seek to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in some form, whether by establishing a carbon cap-and-trade system or a national renewable energy standard. But the proposals have so far failed to move forward.
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CBI says new planning system must deliver timely decisions
Explore Article climatechange.cbi.org.uk (Aug 14 2010)
The CBI is warning that plans to hand back powers to ministers to approve major infrastructure projects could lead to further delays in building vital energy schemes. The UK's leading business group says the Government's decision to replace the independent Infrastructure Planning Commission (IP...Comment on Article Mentions: CBI
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Google Energy Buys Up Iowa Wind Power
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 20 2010)
Google has used its new status as an energy company to strike a deal to buy a large volume of electricity from an Iowa company that uses wind turbines to generate its power.Comment on Article Mentions: Bill Weihl Google
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Google adds 20 year 114 MW Renewable Energy Purchase to its Green Data Center strategy, is electricity hedging a future for data centers?
Explore Article greenm3.com (Jul 20 2010)
When we decided in 2007 to voluntarily become carbon neutral, our intent was to take responsibility for our carbon emissions and promote sustainable environmental solutions. We approach this goal in three ways. First, we minimize our energy consumption; in fact, we’ve built some of the world’s most energy efficient data centers. Second, we seek to power our facilities with renewable energy, like we did in Mountain View, CA with one of the largest corporate solar installations. Finally, we purchase carbon offsets for the emissions we cannot directly eliminate. We just completed a substantial 20-year green Power Purchase Agreement that allows ...
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More than half of new power in U.s., Eu is green
Explore Article Technology News (Jul 16 2010)
More than half of all new electricity capacity added in the United States and Europe last year was from renewable power such as wind and solar, a body backed by the International Energy Agency and the UN reported. Last year was also a record year for the amount of new green power added to the grid, partly a result of shifting deployment and manufacture to emerging economies including Brazil, India and China, from flagging developed countries.
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How to achieve Zero Carbon Emissions by 2020
Explore Article Indymedia Australia (Jul 14 2010)
The public launch of the Beyond Zero Emissions report - Zero Carbon Australia 2020 - was delivered to an overflowing audience at Melbourne University last night. The report is one possible blueprint for acting on the challenge of climate change by converting the existing coal and gas fired carbon pollution dependent electricity generation to 100% renewables using only current technologies in ten years. Related: Renewable energy target: 20 by 2020 or zero emissions by 2020? | Northcote Independent (blog) - Zero emissions challenge to Australia's coal minister Beyond Zero Emissions has utilised pro-bono research by academic specialists in solar technology, ...
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Green IT and Data Center Management News
Explore Article ServerWatch (Jul 13 2010)
"Renewable energy from solar panels and wind turbines offer a viable alternative to diesel generators in remote off-grid mobile station sites, and a new report from Pike Research forecasts that renewable energy will power 4.5% of the world's mobile base stations by 2014, up from just 0.11% in 2010. "Cisco and Living PlanIT have signed a letter of intent to build a sustainable community in the northern Portuguese municipality of Paredes to serve as an example of a smart connected community that enables economic development, better city management and an improved quality of live for its 200,000 citizens.
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62% of EU's 2009 new energy capacity installed is renewable
Explore Article greenm3.com (Jul 6 2010)
The European Commission has published a report showing wind energy contributed the largest share of new electricity generation capacity in the EU in 2009 Renewable energy sources accounted for 62% of new electricity generation capacity installed in the EU27 in 2009, a 5% rise on 2008 levels, according to a report published by the European Commission. The findings, compiled by the Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and published yesterday (July 5), also show that for the second year running, wind energy contributed the largest share of the new capacity.
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Congressmen and governor state positions on climate change
Explore Article www2.timesdispatch.com (Jul 4 2010)
Virginia's congressional delegation and Gov. Bob McDonnell respond to a Times-Dispatch survey on climate change. Rep. Robert J. Wittman (R-1st): As a scientist myself, I recognize that the earth’s climate is changing. We must recognize that these climactic cycles of heating and cooling have been going on well before man appeared on earth. Humans across the globe contribute greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The questions then become, how much does man affect carbon levels in the atmosphere and to what extent does this affect climate change. We need to examine and take into account all factors, both those induced by ...
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Shanghai Could Reduce Emissions by 60,000 Tons
Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Jun 27 2010)
Shanghai will get some help in its efforts to make its factories more energy efficient, according to an announcement by the World Resources Institute (WRI). WRI said it will launch a new initiative that could help the city reduce its carbon emissions by 60,000 tons a year. The initiative would also assist China in its efforts to reduce its energy intensity under its newly announced five-year plan. According to WRI, the initiative aims to aggregate 30 to 40 energy efficiency projects into one portfolio to reduce capital costs for companies and the transaction costs of energy services companies (ESCO) that ...
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New report says Britain could cut emissions to zero by 2030
Explore Article Green Wise (Jun 16 2010)
Britain could reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to zero by 2030 without having to resort to nuclear power, according to a new report. 'Zerocarbonbritain2030’, published today by the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) purports to provide the first comprehensive energy strategy for the UK. It puts forward a scenario where carbon emissions across all sectors would be reduced to zero within 20 years and where Britain would become a net exporter of renewable energy, while creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
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New Supercomputer Will Track Climate Change
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 16 2010)
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) broke ground yesterday on a new data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming that will house one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The future NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) will be a 171,000 square foot facility in North Range Business Park. Scientists will use the supercomputing center to accelerate research into climate change, examining how it might affect agriculture, water resources, energy use, sea levels and impact on extreme weather events, including hurricanes.
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