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Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist in the New York area with close to 20 years experience in the high-tech industry. A monthly columnist on Web 2.0 and Mobile Technology issues for Entrepreneur, she also covers small business technology trends for the magazine and is a contributor to The...- more about Heather Clancy »
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- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Pepsi Bottling makes big green tech recycling commitment
- Mammoth beverage manufacturer Pepsi Bottling is turning to Redemtech to develop a strategy in the United States and Canada for handling its e-waste, either through recycling or reuse. Under the deal, Redemtech has been tasked with the following: - Dispose of electronic assets. For perspective,...
- Tags: Green Technology, PepsiCo, E-waste, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- The little wind turbines that could
- I have to admit, I'm more used to reading about U.S. tech firms expanding abroad rather than the reverse. But in the case of certain green tech innovations, I suppose it makes sense to flip this idea on its head. Just heard about the example of Proven...
- Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Accenture gets deeper into the green IT services game
- Need some outside perspective on the green status of your IT infrastructure? Accenture, which is one of Forrester Research's darlings when it comes to green IT services, has created a set of services called the Accenture Green Technology Suite that handle anything from basic green "maturity" assessments and modeling tools...
- Tags: Game, Data Center, Accenture Ltd., Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Super-duper green computers
- If you think about sheer performance-per-watt potential, it's pretty hard to beat a supercomputer. So any company with gargantuan transaction processing needs might want to scout the latest Green500 list for insight. This list was brought to my attention by SGI, which has 11 entries in...
- Tags: SGI Altix, Silicon Graphics Inc., Computer, Altix ICE, UNIX, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Mayor: Cleantech leaders are finding their way to San Jose
- The great thing about visiting my brother and his family in San Jose is that there is almost always a business reason for me to be here. I used my latest trip ending tomorrow to catch up with the mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, about his city's aggressive green...
- Tags: San Jose, Leader, Clean Technology, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Carbon management software maker snags $5 million
- Carbonetworks, which sells software for providing better visibility into managing your company's carbon impact, has closed $5 million in Series A funding from NGEN Partners. The company, which is based in Victoria, B.C., will use the money to expand its operations. I blogged about Carbonetworks'...
- Tags: Software, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.
- Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Agreement, mW, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Smart grid players extend their influence beyond the pilot phase
- When it comes to real market potential in the green tech space, smart grid-related technology is right up there. In any given week, I could post a half-dozen blogs about developments in this world. Echelon, in particular, has had a very busy summer, inking a new deal in Denmark, expanding...
- Tags: Echelon, Project Deployment, Pricing, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- California greenlights two renewable energy development projects
- Southern California Edison has received the thumbs-up from the California Public Utilities Commission to contract to buy clean energy from two new alternative energy projects. The first, the Granite Wind development in San Bernardino County, will see the construction of a 41-megawatt wind farm slated to come...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, California, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- You won't hear this winery whine about going green. Some tips for SMBs looking for green tech ideas
- I've been trying out organic wines over the past few months because of my growing intolerance for sulfites, but I never really thought about what that meant until I watched one of the ZDNet Green Enterprise videos this weekend. In the case of Frog's Leap Winery,...
- Tags: Green Technology, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- My mother and I chat a lot about different alternative energy options, mainly because she is lucky enough to live in Hawaii where solar hot water has been mandated for future construction. But one thing that has been ultra controversial on the Big Island has been wind power for the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Bookmark this: Three Web sites to aid the green cause
- "EcoSearch this" doesn't have quite the same ring as "Google this," but the non-profit is hoping to harness the power of the Google search engine to help raise money for environmental non-profits including the Sierra Club, TreePeople, RainForest Alliance, National Resource Defense Council, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child, Healthy World...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018
- Since my blogging buddy Harry Fuller is on vacation this week, I need to pick up the gauntlet and ensure that we've got some good political fodder for those of you who want to debate the existence of global warming and the necessity of reducing our dependence on foreign oil....
- Tags: San Jose, Mr., Al Gore, Fossil Fuel, Gore, Blogging, Investment, Internet, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- The green tech edition of ‘what I did on my summer vacation'
- How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...
- Tags: Green Technology, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Techie's green pet: IDC develops new report card for tech asset recyclers
- Does your IT services company make the grade when it comes to retiring and disposing of technology assets in the greenest way possible? Researcher IDC has come up with a new certification and weighting system for IT assess disposal functions that it is calling the Green Recycling...
- Tags: Asset, Card, International Data Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.
- OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Rhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gaps
- We hear that the state of Rhode Island has signed a five-year deal with demand response technology company EnerNOC to manage electricity demand across city, town and government-related buildings. The idea is that government agencies will be encouraged to reduce their consumption during peak demand periods. Those...
- Tags: Rhode Island, Taxes, Free Trade, Government, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- There's money up on the roof
- I've reported here before about the eyebrow-raising percentage of operations costs that telecommunications companies spend on energy. After all, their business is centered on providing services through massive data centers and they are directly affected by rising energy costs. It stands to reason, then, that some...
- Tags: Telco Systems, Photovoltaic Energy, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Another mobile phone recycling resource
- Heard from someone this morning with another place where you might donate your old mobile phone, when you're looking to upgrade. The 911 Cell Phone Bank out of Ocala, Fla., is another non-profit who distributes phones for emergency purposes to crime victims, people in witness protection programs and senior citizens...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
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