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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

Additional Resources

News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intel Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Another way to ditch your gadgets the green way and earn some money in the process

For about a year now, a Web site that started life as Second Rotation has been buying back electronic gadgets including cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, laptops, GPS devices, gaming consoles, camcorders, satellite radios and portable hard drives. No matter how old. During that time, the...

Tags: Site, Gazelle, TechForward, GPS, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Satellite Radio, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-19

News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Geoengineering may be tech's answer to global warming

There's already money going into developing geoengineering plans to combat rising temps on this planet. Shell Oil has stepped forward as an early supporter. There are a myriad suggestions on how to use mega-engineering projects to combat global warming. Sulphurous gases sprayed into the upper atmosphere. ...

Tags: Global Warming, Proposal, Geoengineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-18

IBM: Measure, measure and measure some more

So far, the main green tech consulting offerings have emerged from the biggest of the big systems vendors and this latest service I'm referencing today out of IBM is no different. The new IBM Green Sigma offering, for those companies that do the Lean Sigma thing, focuses...

Tags: Green Technology, Carbon, IBM Corp., Transportation, Research & Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-18

An Event Apart 2008: Day 1

The antique Palace Hotel in San Francisco houses An Event Apart, a collaboration of interactive presentations about web standards, user experience design, and best practices. The two-day conference features well-known speakers from around the world, including AEA's hosts Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. ...

Tags: Web, Framework, Web Design, Interfaces, Craftsmanship, D, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue you

GraphOn is suing Google for patent infringement and the company appears to be doing a nice imitation of NTP, the company that made its name by suing Research in Motion. GraphOn is going for gold in the patent troll Olympics. In a statement Monday, GraphOn said it...

Tags: Database, Patent, GraphOn, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-18

News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...

Tags: Olympic Games, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Semantic Web, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Will we kill the ocean before the atmosphere kills us?

Will we kill the ocean before the atmosphere kills us?.....Either way our arrogance will be our undoing. Nature will bounce back once we have been reduced to nothing more than a foot note in history. While I don't believe as a species we will be wiped out, that is not...

Tags: Food & Beverage, species, denial

Discussion threads 2008-08-16

Not so idle: HP earns green transport logo for business products

It takes more than better attention to energy-efficiency or attention to materials to classify some gadget or another as green tech. That's why Hewlett-Packard has made a concerted effort to have its products vetted as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay logo program, which focuses on the fuel consumption...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Emission, Product, Document Management, Supply Chain, Transportation, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-15

News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches? Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making ...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Open Source, Health Care, Apple iPhone 3G, Outage, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2008-08-15