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UK loses its nanotechnology lead
News Almost £10m of funding went on nanometrology — a wide-reaching term that refers to the measurement of items or events on a nanoscale — which left just £3m for toxicology and health and environmental impacts.
[March 30, 2007, 14:25]
Establishing Biomass Green Energy: Conveying the Environmental Benefits and Impacts of Biomass--Summary Report 2
White Papers During the Green-e decision-making process for each state or region, stakeholder groups often request specific information on the environmental impacts of biomass power. This information is used by this report to devise criteria and limitations for...
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Your Goal: A High-Performing, Energy-Efficient Data Center
White Papers A growing number of IT organizations are establishing energy efficient, "Green" data centers to alleviate the financial and environmental impacts of skyrocketing power consumption and to proactively address the likelihood of more government energy...
[May 1, 2009, 1:18]
Green Product Design
White Papers Green product design, also known as design for environment (DfE), design for eco-efficiency or sustainable product design, is a proactive business approach to addressing environmental considerations in the earliest stages of the product...
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Green Marketing, Eco-Innovation And Your Customer: Lessons From The Green Graveyard
White Papers Ask: in what ways can customers reduce environmental impacts during use? The first rule of green marketing is the first rule of marketing: focus on customer benefits i.e.the primary reason why consumers buy certain products in the first place.
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Using Web Conferencing to Help Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
White Papers However, with the recognition of the reality of global warming and the acknowledgment of the severe impacts that all of the activities have on the planet, many businesses are now trying to balance their need for good communication with...
[March 7, 2009, 0:25]
Would you put your datacentre near a volcano?
Blog Geothermal energy from Enhanced Geothermal Systems represents a large, indigenous resource that can provide base-load electric power and heat at a level that can have a major impact on the United States, while incurring minimal environmental impacts.
[September 1, 2008, 14:36]
Teleworking 'is good for your health'
News The report, Teleworking at BT -- The Environmental and Social Impacts of its Workabout Scheme, by the University of Bradford and the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development surveyed 2,000 of BT's teleworking staff, also outlined...
[October 14, 2002, 18:17]
Green laws will tackle standby appliances
News A spokesperson for Dell said: "Dell supports the European Commission's basic objective with the EUP Directive including the aim to encourage improvement of the overall environmental impact of products, notably by identifying the major sources of...
[July 6, 2005, 16:30]
Environment Agency seeks green IT partner
News Waste — environmental disposal in line with the WEEE Regulations A spokesperson for the agency told GC News: "At the Environment Agency we have a responsibility to reduce our own environmental footprint.
[December 17, 2007, 15:41]
Hazardous tech threatens recycling workers
News Workers in India and China employed in the recycling of mostly Western electronic devices are being exposed to potentially hazardous toxic substances due to the careless manufacturing practices of technology makers, according to environmental...
[August 18, 2005, 18:15]
Green IT strategies stifled by inertia
News But the research warned that rising energy costs and power-hungry technology mean these IT issues will continue to climb the corporate agenda — in the US, for example, servers and data centres accounted for 1.5 percent of the country's total...
[September 28, 2007, 9:24]
Pollution tsars call for 'urgent' nanotech regulation
News In a statement, the RCEP said that, while it had found no evidence that nanotechnology materials could harm people's health or the environment, the pace of nanomaterial development and marketing "is beyond the capacity of existing testing and...
[November 12, 2008, 16:34]
Government injects funds into transport IT
News The projects will involve British companies working collaboratively with academic institutions and network operators, with the aim of delivering better transport services while reducing negative environmental impacts.
[March 11, 2008, 13:20]
Chipmakers agree to sponsor cancer research
News This industry has always looked for ways to improve the manufacturing processes that lower environmental impacts and improve the health and safety conditions for our employees," SIA president George Scalise said in a statement.
[March 19, 2004, 9:00]
A new threat from the datacentre: you're making your staff deaf!
Blog Comment So yes, new heating and plumbing is part of it - noise cancellation another - but I suspect it'll be a constellation of tecnonologies and solutions that will fix this and other related environmental impacts of servers in one go.
[June 25, 2008, 10:03]
Another survey rates Microsoft cheaper than Linux
Talkback For so many organisations, the type that do not only pay for software, but must deal with administration, security, development and other such issues, the greatest fear that relates to migration would usually surround the direct one time impact...
[September 16, 2003, 9:31]
Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Blog Being green is all well and good but how long will companies continue to worry about the environment if the financial downturn affecting the US bites harder and really impacts the UK? Rather than agreeing that companies would indeed cast their high...
[April 30, 2008, 16:52]
ICT causing gov't to miss green targets
News Information and communications technology is a key factor in the government's failure to meet its own targets for reducing carbon emissions from public sector buildings, a report from the Environmental Audit Committee suggests.
[August 7, 2009, 17:42]
Tech investment would boost jobs, says LSE
News Similarly, building an intelligent transport infrastructure — through which ICT would link up vehicles, roadside sensors and the users themselves — would not only create jobs but also increase road safety and reduce the negative economic impacts...
[April 29, 2009, 16:19]
