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- Is greenhouse gas reporting about to become the next SOX-like IT problem?
- The last two weeks have brought a whirlwind of news, from both a global and domestic perspective, that suggest things are about to get really tricky for businesses that have been ignoring the little matter of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions reporting. I couldn't possibly list everything but...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Information Technology, Greenhouse Gas, Climate Change, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Verdantix, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- 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
- Developers plan integrated platform for managing energy, resource conservation goals
- It must be awfully annoying for businesses to have to deal with point applications for environmental/energy management. Plainly speaking, these things should be just part of overall management tools associated with compliance, sustainability and overall operational excellence initiatives. Someone must have clued in ESS, which provides Environmental,...
- Tags: Software, Sustainability, Compliance, Greenhouse Gas, Crisis Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- 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
- Olive drab isn't the only green the Army cares about
- Want to know what the U.S. Army uses to manage its greenhouse gas emissions? The agency just extended its deployment of software from Enviance, which develops a greenhouse gas reporting and management system. After a pilot in Colorado's Fort Carson, the application is being rolled out at...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Enviance System, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- EPA formally declares a pox on excess greenhouse gas emissions
- I'm surprised Harry Fuller hasn't blogged about this one, yet, but perhaps he is in the great outdoors today. Because I'm not a reporter in Washington, I figured the most useful thing for me to do is create a mini-table-of-contents to some of the coverage of the...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, Greenhouse Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-18
- EMC moves to help shape emissions reporting criteria
- EMC has put its name down as a sponsor of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Product and Supply Chain Initiative, which is a joint project of the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development. The effort aims to establish a standard set of measures for tracking...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, Emission, Greenhouse Gas, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- It's green report card season: Proclamations from IBM, SAP, Toshiba and Xerox
- Some scintillating corporate sustainability reading for your perusal today, folks. In all seriousness, the last few weeks have seen several of the biggest of the big high-tech vendors publish their latest environmental reports or corporate responsibility statements. Here’s a list of some of the most recent, along with a brief...
- Tags: Sustainability, Xerox Corp., Card, Corporate Responsibility, Greenhouse Gas, SAP AG, Toshiba Corp., IBM Corp., Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- New carbon monitoring resources available via the Web
- If one of your near-year-end resolutions is to build out the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reporting for your company, there are a couple of new resources that have been released in the past week. First off, Sun Microsystems has updated the tools that are available on...
- Tags: Web, Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- CES gets the carbon treatment
- Could the mammoth trade show that is the Consumer Electronics Show be in for the green treatment? I mean, after all, most of the vendors there will be preaching green goodness and yet the very act of traveling to a trade show is increasingly in for scrutiny. ...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Trade Show, Greenhouse Gas, Supply Chain, Transportation, Research & Development, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- AMD updates global climate protection goals
- If you're looking for ideas to help your company reach some of its green business goals, Advanced Micro Devices aka AMD has released the eighth version of its annual Global Climate Protection Plan. One of the big changes in this year's version is the company's decision to commit to reporting...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-01
- Overachiever: Sun surpasses greenhouse gas reduction goals
- Bully for Sun Microsystems. The company's U.S. operations have actually already overshot the 20 percent reduction goal originally set for 2012 under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program. Yes, that's right folks, a tech company has done something earlier than expected! The company reports this...
- Tags: Emission, Sun Microsystems Inc., Greenhouse Gas, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- New reports try to demystify the "low carbon IT" equation
- As we all know, information technology is both a culprit and a hero when it comes to carbon emissions. Various research companies estimate that information and communications technologies contribute about 2 percent of the global carbon footprint, and the larger IT companies have been falling all over each other to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Footprint, Carbon, Strategy, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Why Cisco's new low-carbon diet isn't just a fad (updated)
- (Updated to include video blog link.) Is Cisco CEO John Chambers' aggressive commitment this morning to a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2012 just a ploy/play for green headlines? Actually, I think this very public very high-level move represents just the first part of...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Cisco Systems Inc., Aldrich, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- 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
- A blog on light bulbs to brighten the last day of 2007
- In a perfect world, I would be posting my absolutely brilliant Top Something-Or-Other Predictions for Green Tech list today. Because I know every human being LOVES lists. But, I woke up this morning in Cape May, New Jersey, and it's beautiful outside and I haven't finished...
- Tags: Blog, Greenhouse Gas, Southern California Edison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- IBM business partner develops greenhouse meter
- One of the toughest things about being a technology VAR or reseller is finding a way to "productize" your intellectual property. Otherwise, your tech guys find themselves building custom solutions for virtually every customer. Not so for Enterprise Information Management EIM, a small IBM Business Partner that has struck green...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Portal, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., GreenCert, Portals, Enterprise Software, Databases, Internet, Software, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
Additional Resources
- EPA creates new resource for green-tech home retrofits
- Somehow in the scheme of personal economic priorities, retrofitting your home with a "smart" new set of energy-efficient appliances or heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems probably isn't at the top of your list. While intellectually those retrofits might help save you up to 30 percent off your...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Upcoming energy efficiency research from Pew will provide corporate benchmarks
- The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is preparing a report on corporate energy efficiency, to be released in March 2010. Turns out Toyota is the big sponsor of this project, putting up a $1.4 million grant over three years. The data was SUPPOSED to be based...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- 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. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
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