News: Science

• Want to telecommute? Point out that the Smart2020 report shows it's greener.
  Cyndy Aleo-Carreira, The Industry Standard
  Nov 20 2008
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  Smart2020, a report just released from The Climate Group for the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, details how small cuts in transportation by using telecommunication could help conserve resources ...

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• Aussie computer recycling plant save 20,000 tons of e-waste
  Darren Pauli
  Nov 20 2008
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  Australia has launched its first automated recycling plant for e-waste which will salvage up to 20,000 tonnes of IT equipment from landfill. The Sims recycling plant, opened Wednesday in Sydney, ...

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• IDC: Half of UK firms have a green plan
  Leo King
  Nov 20 2008
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  Nearly half of firms have a green IT strategy, and another quarter plan to devise such a plan in the next two years. But 35 percent of those with a strategy already in place do not expect to make ...

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• Adaptec Reduces Storage Power Consumption
  Channelworld staff
  Nov 19 2008
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  To significantly increase the energy efficiency of disk-based storage, Adaptec has kicked off its Green Power initiative with the introduction of Adaptec Intelligent Power Management, a new ...

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• GM's Visual Modeling, Outsourcers in India, Green IT, More
  Steff Gelston
  Nov 19 2008
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  Indian Outsourcers Jittery After Obama Win Senator Barack Obama's victory in the U.S. presidential election has left India's outsourcing industry feeling a little nervous. But there is the ...

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• Garrett taxed by dumped computers
  Darren Pauli
  Nov 19 2008
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  Australia is at risk of falling behind OECD computer recycling standards after federal environment minister Peter Garrett refused to mandate a national e-waste policy. Industry experts say the ...

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• EU code set to clean up data centres
  Tom Jowitt
  Nov 19 2008
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  The European Commission has launched a code of conduct for data centres, in an effort to tackle their increasing power consumption, and minimise the related environmental, economic and energy supply ...

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• Researchers getting the lead out of electronics
   Jim Duffy
  Nov 18 2008
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  Researchers at the University of Maryland say they have discovered a material to replace lead, a potential environmental hazard, in electronics products. The material, bismuth samarium ferrite ...

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• Gartner shares data center efficiency secrets
  Tom Jowitt
  Nov 18 2008
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  Power consumption at data centers is once again in the spotlight, after analyst house Gartner came up with a list of best practices in the data center, designed to save electricity and improve ...

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• Most TV makers fail recycling test in US
  Martyn Williams
  Nov 18 2008
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  Just over half of 17 major television makers in the U.S. score a failing "F" grade when it comes to recycling old television sets, according to a survey carried out by recycling pressure group the ...

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