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EPEAT spreads its wings, goes international

The Green Electronics Council has created an international version of Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool EPEAT that will now enable manufacturers to list their products in 40 countries worldwide. With the expanded focus, EPEAT can now be used by IT purchasers in the United States, Canada, Europe,...

Tags: Lifecycle Management, Manufacturer, Green Electronics Council, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Green IT Is Essential to Green Government

Environmentally conscious, or "Green" IT encompasses everything from examining the use of pollutants in the manufacture of technology, to Projections to the Test. The Leadership Group is one of many organizations focusing attention on the growing challenges of improving energy efficiency within data centers. The Green Grid is working toward...

Tags: Data Center, U.S. General Services Administration, Green IT, Leadership Group, Green Grid, Green Electronics Council, Data Centers, Government, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-10-07

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News to know: IBM-Sun; Microsoft; SaaS; Green tech

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM's Sun deal setting: Talks reportedly near collapse NYT: I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems   Mary Jo Foley: New...

Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Health Care, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Wireless, Palm OS, Wi-Fi, Vertical Industries, Software As A Service (SaaS), Benefits, Healthcare, Wireless And Mobility, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Greener Electronics Council report: Designers need to remember end-of-life concerns

The Green Electronics Council, keeper of the widely referenced Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, has published a report that explores the link between product design and how efficiently a particular piece of technology or gadget can be taken out of service responsibly at the end of its useful life. ...

Tags: Electronics, Heather Clancy, Management, Marketing, Product Design, Product Marketing, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-04-03

EPEAT, EcoLogo join forces on green stamps of approval

The organizations driving two of the best known green product-labeling programs, the Green Electronics Council and EcoLogo, have teamed with the goal of helping to increase the number of products that are listed in EPEAT the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool. Essentially, the collaboration means that...

Tags: Product, Manufacturing, Monitors & Displays, Collaboration, Groupware, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-20

EPEAT greenlights 1,000th green-tech product

Newsflash: In a little more than two years, the Green Electronics Council has vetted and rated 1,000 personal computers, notebooks, monitors and integrated systems under the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool aka EPEAT. Sony has the distinction of pushing the organization to this latest milestone, with its...

Tags: Product, EPEAT, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-10

IT resellers encouraged to spread the EPEAT green gospel

If you're not interested in understanding the in's and out's of the EPEAT Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool rating systems, the Green Electronics Council has started training IT solutions and services providers about how to better-interpret the information for their clients. EPEAT uses 51 different criteria (such...

Tags: Information Technology, Reseller, EPEAT, Federal Government, Strategy, Government, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Tech distie Ingram Micro teams up with EPEAT

If you're a technology product reseller, here's another reason to buy from distributor Ingram Micro: the company's product database now includes the EPEAT Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool ratings information for rated products that it sells. For now, EPEAT which is maintained by the Green Electronics Council covers desktops, notebooks,...

Tags: Team, Ingram Micro Inc., Team Management, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Tallying up the benefits of EPEAT purchasing

OK math geeks, here's one for you. According to a new report from the Green Electronics Council, if you add up the positive environmental impact of the 109 million displays, notebooks and desktop computers sold through the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool EPEAT in 2007, here's what you get: ...

Tags: Reduction, Benefit, Greenhouse Gas, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-17

When it comes to green tech, should companies share and share alike?

While Harry obsesses over cars this week, I'm going to delve into the more esoteric. And I'll start by asking one of those squirmy ethical questions. Here goes: If someone invents some piece of green tech that could vital or key in halting or even reversing the damage that humankind...

Tags: Commons, Green Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-15

Lenovo launches green (and small) desktop

Lenovo is claiming that its latest desktop is the smallest, quietest and most energy efficient. Will it be enough to make desktops cool again? Probably not since most folks are replacing desktops with laptops, but give Lenovo all reviews credit for trying. The company launched its...

Tags: Desktop, Lenovo Group Ltd., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-12

OR trying again to pass electronics recycling law

Contrary to Oregons image of being a progressive green state, the Oregon has yet to pass an electronics recycling law, reports the Oregonian. The first state to pass a bottle recycling bill, Oregon has twice tried and failed to come up with an electronics recycling plan. Now a third...

Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt

Blog posts 2007-02-07