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Tech execs talk smart design for ‘green' buildings

At Greentech Media's Green Building Summit at SRI International, in Menlo Park, Calif., tech executives discuss what is needed to construct and design "green" buildings. Executives contend that many "green" buildings are not energy efficient and smart design means more than picking the right materials and products.

Tags: Executive, LEED

Videos 2009-06-15

Green leases allow tenants to be sustainable

At the Green Legal Strategy panel in San Francisco, Louise Adamson, a partner at K&L Gates, explains the commercial interiors certification within the LEED program--tenants are able to certify their workspace separate from the building and landlord. She says, however, that creating a truly green lease requires a holistic approach...

Tags: Tenant, green, legal, lease, rental, sustainable, LEED, tenant, landlord

Videos 2008-10-29

Pittsburgh: Cleaning and greening its image

Pittsburgh is trying to shed its image of a gritty, grimy steel town one building at a time. Its convention center is one of the most environmentally friendly buildings of its size in the entire country. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits Steel City and takes a tour of the space...

Tags: Image, Quality, Business Operations, News, kara tsuboi, pittsburgh, convention center, LEED, green, composting

Videos 2008-05-16

What is LEED?

"Going green" is becoming commonplace in the corporate world. Paul Holland, general partner at Foundation Capital, explains LEED, the metrics used to certify the "green-ness" of a construction project.

Tags: Construction, Metrics, Green Technology, clean technology, Adam Grosser, Foundation Capital, LEED

Whiteboards 2008-03-31

Ontario: The new frontier for alternative energy

Ontario: The new frontier for alternative energyTranslationTaxpayers are propping up an inefficient industry that pretends it can ignore the laws of physics and got a bunch of politicians on board to suck the taxpayers dry in consequence, and everyone is running to the trough to grab some before the house...

Tags: Leadership, Quality, Vertical industries, TAXPAYERS, alternative energy, LEED, Chartwell

Discussion threads 2007-06-21

Additional Resources

List celebrates 12 of America's greenest cities

Congratulations Californians. Your cities dominate a new list of the Top 12 greenest cities in the United States, published by Greentech Media. OK, I get that San Jose and its neighbors are doing a lot that warrant their green credentials, but, actually, I'm more interested in the...

Tags: Alternative Energy, City, Free Trade, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Advanced Data Centers strives to be an aqua-friendly data center

I receive all sorts of e-mails and press releases about companies, especially data center operators, who have done some serious work on greening their facilities and infrastructure. I try to share the relevant, specific ones as quickly as possible, however many are disappointing for their lack of interesting detail. ...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Is Green IT a passing fad? Deloitte CIO says NO

This is the last of my posts from notes I took during the Uptime Symposium last month. I've been stewing on this one the longest because the thoughts aren't from a high-tech vendor pushing green tech or from a person like me who just "believes," they are from a person...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Data Center, Green IT, Server, Data Centers, Printers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Peripherals, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Earth Rangers data center is small in size and carbon footprint, big on environmental impact

Non-profit children's environmental awareness group Earth Rangers, working together with Dell, Nortel, Pillar Data Systems and VMware, managed to shrink a new data center into one-tenth the space that it COULD have claimed in its LEED Gold-certified building. At only 100 square feet in size, the data...

Tags: Data Center, Carbon Footprint, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-03-24

SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI

SAS is planning to spend $70 million on a cloud computing facility at its Cary, N.C. headquarters as it expands its on-demand offerings. SAS seems to be making a big bet on business intelligence software in the cloud, a concept that isn't expected to get a lot of traction.  ...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Software-as-a-service, On-demand, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, Forrester Research Inc., Forrester Analysis, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-19

How to 'grow' your own indoor fresh air

A presentation delivered this week at the TED 2009 conference demonstrates how you can “grow� fresh air indoors with just three varieties of plants. The discovery was the result of 15 years of testing at Paharpur Business Centre and Software Technology Incubator Park (PBC™ - STIP) in New Delhi, India,...

Tags: Worker, Presentation, New Delhi, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-02-06

New California hosting facility snags sizable energy-savings rebate

Advanced Data Centers, which snagged a Platinum LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating for its new data center in Sacramento, Calif., now says it has received the largest ever "Savings by Design" reward for the building from the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. The companies didn't reveal the size...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-01-21

Using TREES to save the forest

Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...

Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-01

TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home

The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...

Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-24

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

Green tech an integral part of new California Academy of Sciences building

When I still lived in the San Francisco Bay area, I would often wander up to Golden Gate Park and the museums and exhibits nearby. One of my favorite “historic� buildings in the city was the California Academy of Sciences, which now has been completely overhauled with a green bent....

Tags: Green Technology, Museum, Construction, Collaboration, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-19

New green certification program helps keep kitchens out of the frying pan in terms of environmental waste

Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the...

Tags: Food, Kitchen, FoodServiceWarehouse.com, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-12

SAS invests big in green tech for Cary campus

If you've ever been for a visit to software developer SAS in North Carolina, you already know that they have one of the most unique corporate campuses of any high-tech company with daycare, multiple fitness centers and a dry-cleaning facility all right on site. (They've also got their own television...

Tags: Green Technology, Farm, SAS Institute, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-02

2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for debate nonetheless

2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for debate nonethelessjobsi ssee you are still no making an honest living!2 million jobs made how many will be put out of work 10 millionRE: 2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for dI don't...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Propaganda, good topic

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

The Weather Channel's 'green' HD studio

Brian Shield, CIO for The Weather Channel, tells us about their LEED certified HD studio and the company's push towards greener data centers. by Andrew Mager

Tags: Studio, Weather Channel, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-19