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- What does it mean to be a green IT professional? The definition is definitely a moving target.
- Wondering if you have what it takes to be considered a "Green IT" professional? Cisco has taken a stab at defining what sort of skills you might need to adapt your role as businesses look to information technology to help slash carbon dioxide emissions, energy costs and so on. ...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Green IT, Cisco Systems Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- World Wildlife Fund releases new reports on how virtual meetings can cut carbon dioxide AND increase productivity
- I'm writing this blog post from the first trade show I've been to in quite a while, the HIMSS 09 healthcare-related show, where I actually stood in a bus shuttle line yesterday because there were so many people here. Although this has really nothing to do with this post,...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Carbon Dioxide, Business, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- EMC joins SmartWay fold
- Storage tech giant has become part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Transport Partnership. What this means, mainly, is that the company is putting a sharper focus on its distribution practices over the next three years. That means it will be looking at ways to improve its trucking operations,...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Supplier, EMC Corp., SmartWay Partner, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Green tech calculators you can count on, literally
- For those seeking practical tools that can help them get a better handle on the energy and carbon dioxide emissions they're producing, I have not one but three different online calculator type tools to point to in this blog entry. They aren't exactly comparable, but serve different purposes that might...
- Tags: Rackspace, Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Blog Entry, Tool, Forrester Research Inc., Productivity, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Before you can get a grip, you have to get a grip. IBM aims to help.
- I'm starting to wonder how much extra storage devices will be needed to archive all the carbon emissions and other green-related data that companies are desperately trying to start tracking as a way of figuring out where to go from here! The latest addition to this admirable...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, IBM Corp., Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- HP takes leadership stand on emissions reporting across supply chain
- Talk about full (well, almost-full) disclosure: As it promised in its 2007 Global Corporate Citizenship Report, tech giant Hewlett-Packard is reporting carbon emissions data not just for its own operations for those of its largest suppliers. The data represents about 80 percent of the company's "first-tier manufacturing expenditures." (Whatever...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Leadership, Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Dioxide, Supplier, Channel Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- 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, Heather Clancy, Manufacturing, Material, Surace
- 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
Additional Resources
- Apple declares its environmental credentials
- Much has been cyber-ink has been spilled (spilt?) over the past several days about Apple's new Environmental disclosure site called, aptly enough, Apple and the Environment. For all its vaunted and legendary hipness, Apple hasn't been as vocal as its high-tech rivals in the green IT...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Attention big "emitters": Are you ready to start coughing up greenhouse gas data?
- The United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA says it's ready to start collecting greenhouse gas emissions from some of the largest facilities across the country that are responsible for contributing up to 85 percent of our contribution to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, the...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Carbon calculator as value-added service: Consider the case of Sabre
- Many businesses are using carbon footprint calculators to track the environmental impact of some or all of their operations, notably travel. But what exactly can a company do with this sort of data? Travel management and services company Sabre, which is using sophisticated calculators developed using datawarehousing...
- Tags: Sabre Holdings, Carbon, Product Marketing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Carbonetworks releases new app for managing emissions info, sustainability planning
- If your company would like to take control of its greenhouse gas emissions information and other data related to energy usage and sustainability initiatives, Carbonetworks has flipped the switch on what it is calling a Performance Management Platform for this information. The application is offered as a service, so you...
- Tags: Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Eco-ears: Why downloading your music from the Internet is inherently more green
- Someone, somewhere in Apple's Cupertino headquarters is kicking themselves for not thinking of jumping on this theme first: Intel and Microsoft have published a whole bunch of case studies and scholarly analyses that look at the various impacts of technology-enabled habits and processes on the environment. One of the...
- Tags: Internet, CD, Album, Music, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
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