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LEED, Energy Star and rah, rah, rah...

Counterpoint from TreehuggerThe NYT piece is a horribly flawed article:http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/new-york-times-on-leed.phpRE: LEED, Energy Star and rah, rah, rah...Are these blog posts or tweets. Harry, talk about terse!

Tags: Blogging, LEED, Energy Star

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

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

Fortune Data Centers gets its LEED Gold certification

Fortune Data Centers earns rare Gold LEED certification for multi-tenant data center in San Jose, Calif. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Certification, Data Center, Data Centers, Quality, Storage, Training And Certification, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-09

News to know: VMWorld; Disney-Marvel; netbooks; Blackberry Storm; mobile banking; Apple

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. Dan Kusnetzky: Doing the VMworld Dance, Day 1 Jason Perlow: Frugal Tech Show: Speaking with Centrify at VMWorld 2009...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Mobile, Mobile Banking, Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Netbook, BlackBerry Storm, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Wiki, Hardware, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-01

LEED, Energy Star and rah, rah, rah...

Here's a look at the confusing, perhaps almost meaningless, array of labels and tax credit inducement that now go into American buildings. Now somebody has the effrontery to suggest that actual energy use be monitored? And the water use? You can conserve water and not energy or...

Tags: Tax Credit, Energy, Personal Finance, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-31

AMD recaps 2008 green and sustainability initiatives

For those of you who are beginning to account for sustainability strategy in your IT purchasing habits, Advanced Micro Devices has just published its two annual proclamations about its green and corporate responsibility efforts. Among the programs/milestones you can read about: The AMD Changing the Game initiative,...

Tags: Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-28

Foundation of our green future

I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...

Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Fortune Data Centers uses energy efficiency metrics as competitive differentiation

Fortune Data Centers, which opened a new "green" data center in San Jose, Calif., back in April 2009, is wooing prospective tenants with its high efficiency claims -- power usage effectiveness PUE measures of 1.37 at full load -- and its likely certification as the first operational data center in...

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

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Lofty aspirations for power efficiency: Power Loft seeks silver certification for new data center

Colocation data center Power Loft began dreaming about greener data centers several years ago, long before it became vogue to do so. Now, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard's Critical Facilities Services, the company has designed a 200,000-square-foot facility in Prince William County, Va., that can deliver between 120...

Tags: Facility, Certification, Data Center, Virginia, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-03

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