Headline Feeds|
IBM's Tech Predictions Prompt Deep Thoughts, Chuckles December 20, 2011 
IBM looked into its crystal ball and saw five technologies becoming ubiquitous in the next five years. While IBM spends most of its time, effort and intelligence in the innards of big organizations, the five technologies it sees on the horizon are very personal. For example, we'll be able to use our own motion, as well as motion around us, to harness energy. IBM imagines extending this concept to running water.
|
Recycle, Reuse and Employ: Jobs in the Recycling Industry October 26, 2011 
It might not be as glamorous as some industries, but recycling is booming. The industry supports more than 450,000 jobs for Americans and generates $10.3 billion in revenue for federal, state and local governments -- making it larger than the forestry and fishing industries combined.
|
|
How Do You Like Them Thermostats? October 25, 2011 
Two former Apple engineers have released a smart thermostat designed to reduce home energy use. Nest Labs -- a company formed by former iPod and iPhone guru Tony Fadell -- has introduced the Nest Learning Thermostat, a device that learns your daily schedule and adjusts your home's heating and cooling accordingly.
|
Heating Up: Jobs in the Geothermal Industry October 19, 2011 
Compared to solar and wind, geothermal energy is still a small fraction of the renewable energy market. It's holding its own, however, and it's likely to become a much bigger player in the not-so-distant future. "The resource is enormous," said Karl Gawell, executive director of the Geothermal Energy Association. "We're looking for how to solve our energy problems, and this is a huge resource we're only starting to tap."
|
|
New App Aims to Make Energy Use Top of Mind for Facebook Users October 18, 2011 
A new partnership plans to create a Facebook app that will leverage social networking to improve consumer awareness about energy consumption. The partnership consists of the social networking giant, the Natural Resources Defense Council and energy information software creator Opower. The app will let consumers go on Facebook to compare the energy usage of their homes against the national average, among other things.
|
Blowing in the Wind: Jobs in the Wind Industry October 12, 2011 
Like other renewable energy resources, wind energy is taking off. The second quarter of 2011 saw more than 1,003 megawatts of wind power capacity installed, and the wind industry has contributed upwards of 35 percent of all new generating capacity during the past four years, second only to natural gas, according to the America Wind Energy Association.
|
|
A Place in the Sun: Jobs in the Solar Industry October 05, 2011 
Solar is no longer on the back burner; it's right there at the front of the stove, demanding that economists and job seekers alike take notice. "It's a tough environment, but I think it will continue to grow," said Gerald Kelly, communications director for
Third Sun Solar. "As we move forward as a nation, more people will see that it makes sense to develop renewables."
|
Greenies Give Google 'Good Example' Props September 09, 2011 
For the first time in the search engine's history, Google revealed just how much electricity it takes to power its massive computing infrastructure. Google announced that for the year 2010, it used 2.6 million megawatt-hours of energy to run its data centers, search mechanisms, Gmail, YouTube and display ads globally.
|
|
Pollution Report Trashes Apple's Chinese Suppliers September 02, 2011 
Apple's Chinese component suppliers were accused Thursday by a coalition of Chinese environmental groups of discharging waste and toxic metals into the communities where they're located and threatening the public health of the people living in them. "The large volume of discharge in Apple's supply chain greatly endangers the public's health and safety," the coalition stated.
|
Mobile CRM: Go Green to Get Green August 25, 2011 
As is so sadly the case with many environment-oriented subjects, Green IT was consigned to the back burner at a lot of businesses when the economy began grinding its gears several years ago. The same thing happened to a lesser extent to some potentially game-changing CRM strategies, most notably mobile CRM.
|
|
Rewards for Recycling: Q&A With Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot, Part 2 August 24, 2011 
In the fast-moving world of consumer electronics, last year's gaming system and smartphone are old news. Luckily, however, they're not entirely worthless. Electronics recommerce company Gazelle buys this equipment, offering consumers cash, as well as free packaging and shipping -- and then resells it for a profit.
|
Rewards for Recycling: Q&A With Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot, Part 1 August 23, 2011 
Gazelle takes your old cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS devices, game systems, calculators, e-readers, LCD monitors, tablets, and any other out-of-date electronic equipment cluttering up your home or office, and turns it all into cash. It has paid out more than $25 million to 175,000-plus customers and kept 300 tons of electronic waste out of landfills.
|
|
MDM and the Next-Gen Green Data Center August 17, 2011 
Does "green data center" refer to having more greenery around your data center site? No, definitely not. It means reducing your carbon footprint by making effective usage of the core center of your organization -- your "information assets." Being green requires an end-to-end, integrated view of the data center.
|
The Greening of Government IT August 02, 2011 
The U.S. government is actively pursuing a major shift in information technology operations that emphasizes the use of cloud technology. While this effort eventually may reduce the amount of "on-site" electronic equipment used by federal agencies, other forces are at work that will keep the government's demand for electronic devices and components at a high level.
|
|
Google and Ford to Guzzle Data So Cars Can Sip Gas May 11, 2011 
You may think you know the shortest, quickest route to work, but wait till Google get its hands on your steering wheel. Smart technology may save you gas you didn't even know you were wasting.
Ford is working with Google to harness the power of cloud computing and analytics in order to design technologies that will allow vehicles to independently attain optimal drivability and fuel efficiency.
|
Amazon and Greenpeace: Dark Clouds on the Horizon? May 03, 2011 
The buzz around cloud computing has been so steady for so long that industry observers should be forgiven if they were lulled to sleep. But events of the past couple of weeks served as a cold water wake-up call that may have obscured cloud's supposedly bright future. The first was an unplanned outage at an Amazon Web Services datacenter in Northern Virginia that lasted for days and affected numerous websites.
|
See More Articles in Green Tech Section >>
