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  • Wal-Mart Aims To Go Green With Global Supply Chain Makeover

    Wal-Mart has demanded that its Chinese suppliers adhere to green, environmentally friendly and product safety standards. But experts say that ensuring compliance in the complicated, vast network of Asian suppliers will be nearly impossible.

    Written by Thomas Wailgum • 28 Oct. 08 14:18

  • Painting The Co-op IT Green

    The clamor for green IT raised by the spiralling cost of energy, corporate social responsibility mandates and regulations around power consumption and electronic waste disposal is beginning to have an impact on IT infrastructures in ways that aren't just confined to the data center.

    Written by Miya Knights • 12 Sept. 08 14:38

  • Three Ways to Cut Technology Energy Costs Right Now

    Thinking about reducing your company's environmental impact can seem like a daunting task. So don't. Instead, here are three simple things IT departments can do today to start saving energy costs

    Written by John E West • 28 March 08 13:17

  • Driven by Project Management Demand at Standard & Poor's

    In business circles Toyota is talked of with awe. Not for its cars or well-heeled Formula One team, but because it is a manufacturer that has a policy that has lifted it from Japanese almost ran, to serious rival to Ford in Henry Ford's home, the USA.

    Written by Janice McGinn • 19 March 08 15:20

  • Facing the Heat

    As a matter of personal belief, any CIO is free to count themselves among the tiny and diminishing band of troglodytes that would continue to deny the reality of human-induced climate change until the polar ice caps disappeared and the landscape was reduced to dust.

    Written by Sue Bushell • 06 Aug. 07 13:26

  • UK Business Wants Green IT but Doesn't Know How

    Nearly all British businesses think that companies should be doing more to reduce their carbon footprints but most of them haven't a clue how to go about it.

    Written by Chris Mellor • 26 June 07 14:54

  • Green Buildings

    There's a lot of focus today on the greening of the data centre. But the energy conservation movement and the proliferation of IP-based data transport are also causing IT to pay more attention to building and facilities management, an area that has traditionally been outside its purview.

    Written by Mary Brandel • 25 June 07 15:59

  • Trade Group Forges E-waste Proposal

    The US Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA), a trade group representing manufacturers of tech products, has come up with a recycling agreement supported by both television and computer hardware makers.

    Written by Grant Gross • 28 May 07 11:45

  • Can IT Make Your Company Green?

    Whether corporate sustainability initiatives stem from regulatory compliance or aim to boost the bottom line, IT plays a key role in supporting such efforts according to environmental IT experts from three global companies.

    Written by Katherine Walsh • 16 May 07 13:54

  • Steve Jobs Outlines Plans for 'A Greener Apple'

    In an open letter posted to the company's Web site, Apple CEO Steve Jobs outlined plans to remove toxic chemicals from its products, making "A Greener Apple".

    Written by Jim Dalrymple • 03 May 07 11:16

  • E-waste Not

    Unless you've been summering in Antarctica, in which case you experienced the phenomenon firsthand, you've seen the news coverage indicating that global warming is now considered a serious issue.

    Written by Mark Hall • 23 April 07 15:01

  • Saving the Planet, the Easy Way

    Environmentalists have been urging consumers for decades to wake up to impending disaster and change their buying, driving and living habits to reduce pollution, cut energy consumption and help reverse global warming.

    Written by Mike Elgan • 05 April 07 13:37

  • Green Grid Powers Up to Save Energy

    The Green Grid, a group of technology companies collaborating to improve energy efficiency in data centres, is officially open for business.

    Written by Robert Mullins • 05 April 07 13:27

  • Mobile Industry Aims for Greener Phones

    If just a small portion of the world's mobile phone users unplugged their charger when the battery is full, it could save enough electricity to power thousands of homes. So said Nokia as the company unveiled a new industry group that aims to make mobile phones more environmentally friendly.

    Written by Nancy Gohring • 05 April 07 11:39

  • Business Backs Carbon Emissions Scheme

    The Business Council of Australia (BCA) has called on the federal government to set targets for Australia to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

    Written by Sandra Rossi • 05 April 07 10:07

  • Innovation in Sight

    For all the profitability they currently enjoy, Australian companies have a "date with defeat" unless they stop inhibiting innovation and learn how to keep abreast of changes - at macro and micro levels - that are occurring at a faster pace than ever before, according to Jan Kolbusz, a serial entrepreneur who is probably best known to the ICT community for the time he spent as director of technology and operations at Sealcorp.

    Written by Peter Scott • 07 Dec. 06 13:41
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