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Keep your code clean to make it green
Blog Yesterday, my contribution to the green ecosystem extended to recycling a few beer bottles and shredding some paper for recycling. But then, I received a handful of calls, mails and tweets questioning the green coding concept.
[November 21, 2008, 8:16]
Not everything so christened is green
Leader If recycling is a virtue, then PC World is virtuous indeed. 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...
[February 22, 2007, 14:23]
Greenpeace clashes with Apple over toxic waste
News Rather than focusing on recycling, the group claims that the toxic chemicals used by tech suppliers should be the main issue considered by anyone wanting to buy green. The scoring is weighted more heavily on the use of toxic substances in...
[August 29, 2006, 13:00]
Chinese will pay most for green PCs
News In August last year, Greenpeace released the results of a study claiming workers in China employed in the recycling of mostly western electronic devices were being exposed to potentially hazardous toxic substances, due to the careless...
[June 28, 2006, 17:25]
IBM co-founds green patent pool
News For example, communications company Nokia submitted a patent covering recycling mobile phones into new electronic devices such as clocks, calculators and remote controls. Although there are efforts to boost recycling, electronic waste is a growing...
[January 14, 2008, 11:13]
HP defends recycling statistics
News PC makers Dell and HP have both released research this month pointing out the progress they have made when it comes to recycling and re-using old hardware. Dell also claims it is the only computer manufacturer to offer consumers a no-charge...
[July 19, 2007, 17:41]
IT budgets to foot recycling bill
News More than one-third of senior IT management are completely clueless about impending legislation that could result in user organisations footing the bill for greener disposal and recycling of defunct hardware.
[August 5, 2004, 14:15]
Tech leaders lobby Prime Minister over sustainable IT
News Analyst group Gartner claims vendor recycling costs will ultimately be passed on to end-user organisations. In a recent research note, EU's New Recycling Rules could Drive-Up European PC Prices, the analyst group estimated that legal changes could...
[June 8, 2005, 15:55]
'Green' mobile phones a long way off, says report
News Also, although most vendors offer recycling options, less than five percent of the world's handsets will be recycled ethically in the end, according to a report released by ABI Research on Monday. Makers of mobile phones produce few 'green' models...
[December 4, 2008, 9:36]
Green Government ICT strategy- what strategy?
Blog As an IT recycling company, we were aware of this initiative, even though, as stated on Butlergroup's opinion wire (16 July 2009), many public sector IT managers remained unaware of the strategy. Although the Green IT agenda seems to have left...
[July 20, 2009, 9:55]
Green Living
Downloads Earn points towards your conservation certification while you save money and conserve energy.Once you earn your green certificate, use it to request discounts from energy, water, gas and other companies in your area.Provides targeted home, work...
[June 9, 2008, 8:00]
Green is the colour of money
Leader An apparently proactive approach to green issues also helps in lobbying against any environmental legislation that the business sector regards as particularly punitive: witness the likes of Dell, HP, Fujitsu Siemens and the other PC vendors...
[June 16, 2005, 14:30]
Apple launches iPod recycling programme
News Green Century Capital Management, the investment firm that raised questions at Apple's annual meeting, praised the new recycling programme. Inside the meeting, a representative of an environmentally orientated mutual fund questioned Apple CEO Steve...
[June 6, 2005, 10:25]
Green electronics Epeat registry expands worldwide
News While the Department of Energy-run EnergyStar rates energy efficiency, Epeat covers other factors including the amount of toxic material used in electronics, manufacturers' recycling and take-back policies, and packaging.
[August 11, 2009, 9:44]
Green IT may cut costs by 20 percent
News In addition, the report encourages companies to drive down the waste of paper and ink when printing, increase recycling rates and use more recyclable equipment. IT managers need to start thinking green to give their company a headstart over the...
[January 18, 2008, 7:48]
Green IT solutions
Blog Okay, so my posts have, so far, focused upon the recycling of obsolete e-waste and the associated green side of this initiative. How about the other side of the IT bandwagon, that of green datacentres and greener computing systems.
[September 19, 2008, 9:30]
Dell launches green offensive in Emerald Isle
News Dell is going on a green-tinted offensive in Europe before the widespread adoption of stringent rules on hardware recycling by EU member states. The computer maker's first strike will be a free computer recycling day at its European manufacturing...
[September 8, 2004, 15:20]
It's Easy Being Green
White Papers Whether it's energy conservation or recycling building products, these folks know that by utilizing solid guidelines like those developed by the U.S. Article renders that real estate developers, architects and environmentalists across the country...
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Lenovo trumps Apple in green-tech ranking
News Rather than focusing on recycling, environmentally conscious customers should focus on the toxic chemicals used by tech suppliers, Greenpeace claimed. Greenpeace cited improvements in Lenovo's position on Precautionary Principle and Individual...
[April 5, 2007, 9:22]
Tech chiefs put premium on green IT
News The report, 2008 Trends to Watch: Green IT, predicts use of virtualisation, IT recycling schemes, software as a service and low-carbon technologies will continue to grow. Green is the new black for chief information officers as environmental issues...
[April 10, 2008, 9:36]
