...truce with Greenpeace. As an example of their advocacy Facebook explained that it recently partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Opower to help people track their home energy use, compare it with their...

...d of psychological connection as well. Opower has teamed with Facebook, energy conservation advocates and the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, on a new app. The software will allow interested pa...

...e drew a line in the sand and the Calico solar project crossed it,” says Johanna Wald, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, which joined with the Sierra Club and the Defenders of Wildlife to stop dev...

...luding our 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 ...

...e, the white 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 ...

...nter in Sweden. Also last month, the firm embarked on a home energy efficiency initiative with Opower and the Natural Resources Defense Council. ...

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 so! Google recently released the environmental footprint of several of its data centers and “cloud” services. First, let’s give Google kudos for its transparency: disclosing the energy footprint of web services is critical to enable users to hold their service providers accountable for minimizing their environmental impact, as well as to manage their own footprint. Google’s energy use and carbon emissions numbers seem huge in aggregate, but much more modest when considered from the perspective of individual users.

...atch, including 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 t...

...ment to American 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 fu...

...o find other 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 mul...

...Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)I.T.'s Environmental Benefits Not a Free Pass To Waste EnergyNatural Resources Defense Council (blog)... utilization only, while still using more than 60 to 90 percent of...

...f the costs, waste disposal, and proliferation risks of nuclear, said Frances Beineke, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Nuclear, which now accounts for about 20 percent of power generation in...

...cy and Renewable Energy), DTE Energy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Exelon Corporation, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E Corporation, Sempra Energy, Sea Change Foundation, and Southern Co...