The website ecofabulous.com is about style… and changing the world. The company’s manifesto says ecofabulous means “celebrating high style with low impact, being savvy and open for a bit of discovery,” and, “inspiring change.” As a journalist, having worked at ...
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Intel IT Best Practices: At Intel IT, we think “green” everyday under a formal IT Sustainability Program. In 2010, we implemented projects that reduced our consumption of IT associated emissions by ~60,000 metric tons of co2 and saved Intel’s business ...
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Green IT: To support Intel’s first planned certified green building, Intel IT has designed a system that saves energy by recovering data center heat and using it to heat the rest of the building.

For more on Green IT visit Intel.com/IT.

Green IT: Intel IT is engaged in developing a broad, ongoing IT sustainability strategy to help Intel consume fewer resources and emit less waste. In analyzing the business case for IT sustainability, we identified the bottom-line benefits and defined the ...
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Information and Communication Technology accounts for 2% of global CO2 emissions. Intel’s Eco-Technology efforts are now focused on opportunities for technology to impact the other 98%.

In this Chip Chat episode, Allyson Klein interviews Lorie Wigle.

The EPA’s ENERGY STAR* is developing new ICT metrics, researching the energy consumption of 200+ data centers. In July 2007 it updated its requirements for computers to include idle mode.

In this episode, Allyson Klein interviews Katharine Kaplan.

San Francisco-based blueEnergy provides sustainable energy services to isolated communities in Nicaragua. Mathias Craig, executive director and chairman of the board of the nonprofit corporation, was on-hand last year to receive the prestigious Accenture Economic Development Award at the Tech ...
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Prior to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), one news story getting a lot of traction was the conversion of a Saturn Hybrid into a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) capable of 150 miles per gallon. So I ...
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During the North American International Auto Show, (NAIAS), I spoke with Clay Dean, global design director for Cadillac about the Provoq, the luxury SUV concept based on the Volt E-flex platform, unveiled at CES.

Another exciting discovery at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) was Ford’s EcoBoost platform and the unveiling of their Explorer America concept. Dan Kapp, Ford‘s Director of Powertrain Research, introduces me to this next-gen SUV and it’s performance ...
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