Wind turbines suspended after flaw discovered
News Manufacturer Quiet Revolution remotely shut down its entire network of QR5 turbines after its safety system discovered a fault [19 Oct 2009]
Who cares about green IT? Not us!
Blog Who cares about going green? Apparently, datacentre managers don't, if this story is to be believed. It reports research from Gartner showing that "while energy management is the top... [29 Sep 2009]
Government invites bids for £22m marine energy fund
News The Carbon Trust will administer the fund, which is intended to stimulate the development of renewable-energy technology [22 Sep 2009]
IBM dives into 'smart grid for water'
News IBM is leading an effort to design IT systems to monitor and analyse water use, with a view that governments and businesses will need to better manage water resources [08 Sep 2009]
The environmental impact of downloading
Blog I downloaded the portableapps.com portable applications suite on a USB stick today. I did the same thing the day before yesterday, and I had mislaid it somewhere in the midst of the plethora of... [28 Aug 2009]
Researchers devise energy-aware internet routing
News Researchers say they have developed a routing algorithm that can help big internet companies reduce their energy bills by millions of dollars [19 Aug 2009]
Green electronics Epeat registry expands worldwide
News Epeat certification, which rates electronics on a variety of environmental factors, will be available to tech gear sold outside the US [11 Aug 2009]
ICT causing gov't to miss green targets
News A Commons committee report has pointed to information and communications technology as one cause of the government's failure to meet its own carbon reduction targets [07 Aug 2009]
High court cracks down on WEEE waste dodge
News Schemes that collect electronics waste for manufacturers that want to comply with environmental laws cannot deliberately amass more than their fair share, the court decides [05 Aug 2009]
How green is your data centre?
Blog Data centre management is all about power and cooling - most data centres seem to have the data side of things sorted. It's the energy draw that hurts the budget most. Well, that's close to the... [30 Jul 2009]
Intel seeds five energy start-ups with $10m
News The chip giant's venture arm is boosting its presence in smart-grid technologies and low-power computing through a series of investments [30 Jul 2009]
Cisco braced for torrent of smart-meter data
Analysis The networking giant anticipates that utilities will bulk up datacentres to handle a deluge of data from smart meters [29 Jul 2009]
More energy must go into making devices efficient
Comment The technology exists to make devices far more efficient, but a number of factors are standing in the way, says Wayne Lyons [19 Jun 2009]
Samsung exec: Enterprise ripe for green disruption
News The enterprise is ready for a 'disruptive' approach to innovation when it comes to adopting green technology, according to Samsung Semiconductor's Jim Elliott [19 Jun 2009]
Energy-rating system introduced for servers
News After years of development, Energy Star ratings for enterprise servers are set for release on Monday, which will give buyers a 'starting point' for comparing efficiency [18 May 2009]
Legislation sets out battery-recycling rules
News The new legislation describes how battery producers must aid the collection and recycling of waste batteries [15 Apr 2009]
Fujitsu Siemens explains its 'zero-watt' PC tech 
Video A year after it introduced its 'zero-watt' monitor, Fujitsu Siemens made the same claim about its new PC. ZDNet UK spoke to the company to find out what it means [10 Mar 2009]
'Napping' datacentres could save 75pc of energy
News Researchers at the University of Michigan are using an energy-conservation method called PowerNap to put idle servers to sleep when they are not in use [06 Mar 2009]
London 2012 targets green-tech to cut costs
News The Olympic Games in 2012 will rely on green technology to control costs and waste amid the financial downturn [05 Mar 2009]
HP and the African e-waste problem: Round 2
Blog I have been tracking the issue of illegal dumping of old tech in Africa for a while now and reported HP's first efforts to investigate this issue last year: ... [17 Feb 2009]
Apple selling used products online in China
News The company has launched an online store in China selling refurbished products in an aim to boost its business there [20 Jan 2009]
Google emits rebuttal to carbon claims
Blog Reacting swiftly to a Harvard academic's claims that two Google searches produce as much greenhouse gas as boiling a kettle, the company has posted a blog on the subject. "We thought it would be... [12 Jan 2009]
Carbon footprint of a Google search revealed
News A Harvard University physicist says a typical search on a desktop computer generates about seven grams of carbon dioxide [12 Jan 2009]
HP offers cash in exchange for old tech
News The company has expanded its recycling program in the US from a trade-in credit system to no-strings cheques, though consumers must pay for shipments [07 Jan 2009]
Toshiba moves into solar-power business
News The company has created a unit dedicated to building large-scale power plants using solar-photovoltaic panels [06 Jan 2009]
Are LCDs really greener than CRTs?
Blog New research this week from the US has shown that levels of a greenhouse gas emitted during the production of LCDs and flat-screen TVs - is actually four times higher than previously thought. ... [24 Oct 2008]
Apple carves out a new case for manuacturing
Blog A wonderful rumour is circulating in the Applesphere, regarding a brick. The Apple Brick. The phrase itself has been around for a while, although nobody outside the company had any idea what it... [05 Oct 2008]
Out of the cardboard box thinking on green data centres
Blog A lot of companies out there would like us to believe that data centres can somehow be green. But as one data centre builder admitted to me this week, "Anyone who claims they have a green data... [24 Sep 2008]
Confessions of an IT Eco-Sinner
Blog Just working my way through an excellent book called Confessions of an Eco Sinner by Fred Pearce. The gist of the book is that rather than just come all preachy about the state of the planet -... [17 Sep 2008]
Back to The Thirties
Blog Saturday 2:28 AM Xwindowsjunkie Power & Light is running. Standard AC power went down at about 2AM. Reliant Energy wasn't so we've dropped back to the 1930's. That's when a lot of farms in the... [13 Sep 2008]
