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- Making a fantasy team sport out of going green
- Your vow today to go green can't really be a New Year's resolution. And since Lent will be over on Sunday, it can't really serve that obligation. So, since it's March, let me put this blog in terms that most of the basketball-hungry population will understand. CarbonRally does for inspiring...
- Tags: Team, Carbon Dioxide, Team Management, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- HP Sez: Turn off the lights!
- Actually, OK, so it's not REALLY Hewlett-Packard's shindig. BUT, the company HAS been chosen by the World Wildlife Fund as "the official U.S. technology partner" for Earth Hour. The event, which is scheduled for Saturday, March 29, 2008, at 8 p.m. local time in various participating cities encourage...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Dioxide, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Flying solar: Nellis Air Force base claims largest solar installation
- I wrote a few weeks ago about a solar technology manufacturing facility being built in Las Vegas by Australian company Ausra. Now, it turns out that nearby Nellis Air Force Base has just completed the largest solar photovoltaic installation in the United States. ...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Photovoltaics, Air Force, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- Could green building materials also be longer lasting?
- One thing that frustrates my home renovation expert and bonafide contractor husband to no end is the shoddy quality of the construction materials, fixtures and other doo-dads that his customers buy at a certain uber home supply company that has managed to put most local hardware stores out of business....
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Construction, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- The greening of basic building materials
- This blog's for the handymen of the world, like my husband. Got a bit of education recently about the environmental/climate impact associated with manufacturing certain building materials, such as drywall and sheet rock. Apparently, the processes behind creating the materials that go into construction projects and renovations...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Industry, Material, Surace, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- Sun CIO: Tackle green IT in manageable steps
- The video gurus here at ZDNet have posted their latest in the Green Enterprise series, some tips from Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall on how to tackle making your data center more energy-efficient while simultaneously reducing the carbon dioxide emissions it contributes to the atmosphere. I'll let...
- Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Carbon Dioxide, Department, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Cleaning products company aims to make dry cleaning more eco-friendly
- Working at home has a way of altering your wardrobe. Most of my grown-up clothes have been idled for months now. I used to have a pretty high monthly dry cleaning bill. But I never thought much about what those chemicals do to the environment or why...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- You've been slimed (or, algae as a biofuel source)
- Me and algae, we go way back. (So far back, in fact, that I don't remember what the proper grammar should be for the previous sentence.) I can recall ponds smothered in algae during a couple of 8th grade field trips focused on gathering data for my...
- Tags: El Paso Corp., Acre, Oil, Texas, Carbon Dioxide, Bonus, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- The green side of IP telephony
- Up until two months ago, I was a horrible carbon dioxide offender. No excuses, really, other than the fact that my daily commute took me over two bridges from my New Jersey home out to Long Island. My duties demanded serious "face time" with my staff.Days when the New York...
- Tags: Telephony, Green Technology, Environment, Carbon Dioxide, IP Telephony, IP, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
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- The power of you: Siemens recognizes green efforts of three U.S. communities
- I've been remiss in following up some admirable community sustainability awards that are being sponsored by Siemens in conjunction with the Business Civic Leadership Center and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. While these projects aren't strictly green technology initiatives, they ARE being pushed forward by advances in alternative energy and...
- Tags: Community, Green Technology, Siemens AG, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
- Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....
- Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- OK, Dell. Maybe your tech's greener, but what about green services?
- Great timing on Dell's part. Wait until arch-rival or at least one of them Hewlett-Packard is busy chatting up the press about a minor (ha!) services acquisition, and then WAY up the ante when it comes to an energy-efficiency proclamation. Here's the thing: While other vendors, including...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day
- Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- First, a game of green. Then, fade to black
- It is truly astonishing that I mention the word Apple in a post and I get more talkbacks than pretty much anything I write about. Puh-leeze, get a grip. Anyway, just back from reluctantly leaving my old PowerBook G4 with the kindly (actually, can someone half my age be kindly?)...
- Tags: Brain, Query, Apple Inc., Games, E-mail, Web Site Development, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Cautionary tale: carbon trading and carping loggers
- Cautionary tale: carbon trading and carping loggers...When people understand that you cannot monetize everything then we will start to see real progress. Until then... nothing more than lip service. ]:)
- Tags: carbon
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Cautionary tale: carbon trading and carping loggers
- In New Zealand an official carbon-trading scheme is not running smoothly. It's perhaps a cautonary tale for other countries or regions looking at carbon-trading as a way to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. New Zealand's a signator to the Kyoto Protocol which led that nationto try carbon-trading...
- Tags: Emission, Greenhouse Gas, New Zealand, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Is it RIP for my aged Apple laptop?
- OK. I may just have found a very relevant reason to go out and buy a new computer: I think I have officially killed my four-year-old Apple notebook. And, yes, I will lose data if I can't recover the hard drive. And, yes, I am traveling as this discovery is...
- Tags: Thin Client, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IGEL, Thin Clients, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- A sailing robot to cross the Atlantic
- The Times of London reports that seven robotic craft will compete in a race across the Atlantic Ocean in October 2008. One of them, 'Pinta the robot sailing boat,' has been designed at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Pinta is expected to sail for three months at a maximum speed of...
- Tags: Pinta, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
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