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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
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About Natural Resources Defense Council
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing. Founded in 1970, NRDC today has 1.2 million members and online activists nationwide, and a staff of more than 300 scientists, attorneys, and other specialists.
Worth magazine has named NRDC one of America's 100 best charities, and Charity Navigator has given NRDC three out of four stars. -
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What's Your Biggest Accomplishment in 2011?
Explore GreenBiz.com (Dec 27 2011) Construction , Fuel Cell
... employees -- has been tremendous. Peter Malik, Director of the Center for Market Innovation at the Natural Resources Defense Council We made fantastic progress in our energy efficiency work. Having launched a series of high profile ...
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Comment Mentions: Natural Resources Defense Council LEED Bloom Energy
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Understanding Network Energy Use Is Key to Efficiency
Explore environmentalleader.com (Nov 28 2011) Emissions , Networking , Servers
...te paper says. Developed by CSCI members from Broadcom Corporation, Cisco, Intel, Juniper Networks, Natural Resources Defense Council, Microsoft and PowerOne, the white paper is the second in a series of three papers that CSCI is rel...
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Comment Mentions: Natural Resources Defense Council Intel Cisco
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Facebook to Install Hybrid Solar Power and Water System at New HQ
Explore GreenBiz.com (Nov 8 2011) Solar , Wind
...eden. Also last month, the firm embarked on a home energy efficiency initiative with Opower and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Photo of a Cogenra installation, courtesy of the company.
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Natural Resources Defense Council Oracle
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How Big Is Your Google Footprint?
Explore Home | Switchboard, from NRDC (Sep 16 2011) Emissions
The biggest energy and environmental impact of using Google and other internet services may not be where you think it is. The rapid spread of large data centers that power the internet is responsible for a growing energy use and share of carbon emissions. It is tempting to jump to the conclusion that the internet and all its services stand in the way of energy and environmental sustainability. Not necessarily ...
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Comment Mentions: Natural Resources Defense Council Google
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Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers
Explore The New York Times (Sep 8 2011) Emissions , Wind
...uding its servers that use energy-saving chips and software. Noah Horowitz, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco, applauded Google for releasing the figures but cautioned that despite the advent ...
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Comment Mentions: Natural Resources Defense Council Google
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For the energy of the Internet, look to the end devices
Explore GigaOM (Jun 27 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Networking
...erican homes are consuming around $3 billion in electricity per year, according to a study from the Natural Resources Defense Council. That eye-opening figure is so high because set top boxes commonly run at full power 24-hours a day...
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Comment Mentions: New York Times The New York Times Europe
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Google Makes Its Case for Wind Power
Explore BusinessWeek (Oct 13 2010) Nuclear , Wind
...er sources of electricity when the propellers aren’t turning, said Brandi Colander, a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York-based environmental group. Google built a platform that lets multiple wind farms connec... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Natural Resources Defense Council Google Eric Schmidt
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I.t.'s Environmental Benefits Not a Free Pass To Waste Energy
Explore Home | Switchboard, from NRDC (Jul 20 2010) Servers
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Comment Mentions: Natural Resources Defense Council Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Data Center Efficiency
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Nuclear power: friend or foe to renewable energy?
Explore Technology News (Apr 13 2010)
...ntrast, representatives from other environmental groups, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council, said on Monday that they were not totally opposed to additional government incentives for nuclear...
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Comment Mentions: Natural Resources Defense Council InfoWorld CNET News
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New McKinsey Report: Green building is a crucial and urgent economic and environmental imperative
Explore usgbc.org (Jul 30 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions
...ewable Energy), DTE Energy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Exelon Corporation, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E Corporation, Sempra Energy, Sea Change Foundation, and Southern Company. ### About U.S. G...
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Comment Mentions: Natural Resources Defense Council Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Sempra Energy
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