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Environmentally Friendly People: An Oxymoron
Talkback First and foremost, we are not an environmentally friendly species. This article makes a great point but I think it is important we keep a couple of things in mind. There are just so many of us it may be that we never will be.
[June 6, 2007, 17:40]
Federal Procurement: Better Guidance And Monitoring Needed To Assess Purchases Of Environmentally Friendly Products
White Papers Twenty-five years after RCRA was to launch a revolution in federal purchases of recycled-content products, the success of this effort is largely uncertain. For many years, until the 1990s, little action was taken to promote such purchases on a...
[May 31, 2005, 0:00]
A Methodology For Environmentally Informed Decision-Making: Towards Sustainable Projects
White Papers Recent years have brought increased concern for sustainable development. However, despite efforts by policy, scientific, and engineering communities, sustainability remains largely undefined and unachievable.
[April 28, 2006, 0:00]
IT Industry As Environmentally Evil As Airlines
Blog The airline industry is the worst culprit when it comes to carbon emissions right? Wrong, according to a survey by analyst Gartner, the IT industry is just as bad - responsible for two percent of global emissions.
[April 26, 2007, 15:59]
Environment Agency Seeks Green IT Partner
News The Environment Agency has posted a tender for what it hopes will be the most environmentally sustainable government IT contract to date. We're looking to work with a partner who can step up to this challenge, ensuring this is the most...
[December 17, 2007, 15:41]
Lenovo Trumps Apple In Green-tech Ranking
News Chinese manufacturer Lenovo has gone from being the least environmentally friendly technology company to top of the list of 14 in Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics. Rather than focusing on recycling, environmentally conscious customers...
[April 5, 2007, 9:22]
Not Everything So Christened Is Green
Leader Not for its claims for the world's first environmentally friendly PC, claims at best badly formed and at worst actively misleading, but because the company is recycling a strategy that was worn out the day it was named.
[February 22, 2007, 14:23]
BCS Warns Of Environmental Impact Of Vista Upgrade
News Companies that opt to refresh their PCs following an upgrade to Microsoft Vista should ensure that they dispose of old machines in an environmentally responsible way, according to the British Computer Society.
[December 7, 2006, 15:34]
HP Backs African Recycling Research
News HP is funding a project to investigate how electronic waste generated by African companies, as well as material from Western businesses that is dumped illegally, can be disposed of in a safer and more environmentally friendly way.
[September 18, 2007, 17:36]
Six Ways HP Helps IT Support Environmental Initiatives
White Papers Read this paper to find out more about the company's 20-year commitment to manufacturing and retiring its products in an environmentally responsible manner. You'll learn about the company's Design for Environment and Design for Recyclability...
[November 27, 2007, 23:00]
What Happens To My Technotrash
White Papers The services are used by individuals and organizations that want to securely destroy their electronic information and properly dispose of their technotrash in a safe, legally compliant, and environmentally responsible fashion.
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
EU Recycling Directive To Hit PC Retailers
News The vendor will be legally obliged to dispose of the computer in an environmentally-friendly way. Under the scheme, this obsolete equipment will be returned to ICL for recycling - 75 percent will be re-used, 15 percent will be distributed to...
[February 4, 1999, 15:06]
Greenpeace: IT Giants Must Turn Greener
News Japan is currently leading the world on environmentally sound manufacturing, according to Greenpeace. Its Green Purchasing Law requires government bodies to take a lead in procuring environmentally friendly products and materials.
[November 18, 2005, 16:50]
HP Puts More Effort Into Recycling
News We will provide leadership on the journey to an environmentally sustainable future, with environmentally sound products and creative recycling systems," Pradeep Jotwani, senior vice president at HP's Imaging and Printing Group, said in a statement.
[November 13, 2003, 9:10]
'Green' IT: A Feasible Proposition?
News Ottman Consulting, which works with businesses on environmentally friendly procedures and design. Solar Data Centres serves mostly smaller, environmentally aware companies. At the same time, even companies that make a point of maintaining...
[September 27, 2004, 17:05]
MIPS: Measuring Environmental Impact Of IT
News We were trying to find out how much more environmentally friendly online banking is compared to traditional banking," said Case. Buying a CD online appears to be more environmentally friendly, said Dunning, with a MIPS rating of 1.45kg.
[September 16, 2002, 13:46]
Recycling Special Report: Designing PCs For The Environment
News The move toward more environmentally friendly PCs and peripherals seems fraught with trade-offs. All parties involved in the recycling debate agree there is only one way to achieve environmental safety in computer disposal: Redesign the hardware...
[June 18, 2001, 14:00]
PC World Plans 'green' Vista PC
News Retailer PC World claims that it is working on the world's most energy-efficient and environmentally friendly PC, based partly on recycled components. On Tuesday, the high street chain announced that it is planning to develop a sustainable PC that...
[February 21, 2007, 9:22]
Novell Joins The Green Gang
Blog Novell has become the latest vendor to sign-up to the Green Grid - a gang of supposedly environmentally minded tech companies that are committed to exchanging ideas around how to make data centers more energy efficient.
[April 12, 2007, 14:22]
PC World Justifies Environmental Vista Claims
Blog We were surprised by PC World's decision.to build an environmentally sustainable PC around Microsoft's Vista OS - an operating system that has been widely derided for how power hungry it is. Also the upgrades associated with people moving to Vista...
[March 1, 2007, 12:18]
