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Technology is a transformative force for good, and must be harnessed toward the challenge of environmental sustainability.聽 That is the reality of the moment as well as the opportunity for the future that we focused on today at 鈥淗ow Green Is the Internet,鈥� held at Google鈥檚 Mountain View campus. There are two things that jump out at me coming away from the session.聽 One is the unique power and ability [...]
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How green is the Internet?聽 That鈥檚 a great question.聽聽 Not coincidentally, it鈥檚 also the name of a summit meeting today at Google headquarters.聽 (You can watch live at www.youtube.com/googlegreen.) Participants make up an intriguing mix of experts from industry, academia, government and NGOs.聽聽 For our part, 91pro视频 is helping to explore emerging questions around the environmental impacts and benefits [...]
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The 3,000-year old city of Xi鈥檃n was the capital of the first Chinese feudal dynasty. The city is world renowned as the home of the largest collection of ancient terracotta warriors. 聽Every visitor to Xi鈥檃n is amazed by the sophisticated culture preserved in these terracotta sculptures. 聽However, attendees at this year鈥檚 DESSC China Summit held in Xi鈥檃n May 18-19 were even more impressed with high [...]
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Back in July 2011, as the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee marked up and approved S. 1000, the Shaheen/Portman bill on energy efficiency, I couldn't get excited.聽 Why? 聽It was abundantly clear that the bill had no chance of enactment.聽 With the 2012 election already looming, there was no momentum behind bipartisan energy legislation, even in the noncontroversial, low-hanging fruit area of [...]
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43 years ago, the United States created Earth Day -- and 20 million Americans worked to reshape our environment from one where air pollution was a price of doing business to one where clean air and clean water were considered valuable legacies to be protected and enhanced.聽 Today, it is a moment to look at the modern challenges we all face -- and the cutting-edge solutions that will drive our ability [...]
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This blog was originally posted on the CA Technologies Corporate Blog:聽 Perspectives. I鈥檓 very proud to announce that CA Technologies is a signatory of the BICEP Climate Declaration, launched today in Washington, DC.聽 We have talked about BICEP previously on this blog, and the Climate Declaration is an example of how the organization is mobilizing business leadership to promote a sustainable world.聽 [...]
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Faced with growing pressures both to cut costs and to meet increasingly stringent sustainability goals, federal agencies are turning to information and communications technologies (ICT) as one means of helping them cope with this new reality.聽 NextGov, a leading news site geared towards federal technology decision makers, will be featuring the case studies聽 we developed with support from DESSC highlighting [...]
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This post originally appeared on the ACEEE Blog. While there is disagreement among politicians about the role of government spending and government regulations to spur cost-effective energy efficiency investments, politicians of all political stripes agree that knocking down market barriers that keep Americans from saving money is a worthy task. Within this context, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient [...]
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Two weeks ago, instead of experiencing the D.C. snow storm that never came, I was in California attending the Green Grid Forum 2013.聽 For those of you who don't know about it, The Green Grid (TGG) is an open industry consortium of end users, policy makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies that works to improve the resource efficiency of data centers. With more than 175 [...]
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This blog was originally posted on the Microsoft Green Blog. Last Thursday evening our very own TJ DiCaprio was awarded the Environmental Protection Agency Individual Climate Leadership Awardfor the work she has done to reduce carbon pollution and address climate change as Microsoft鈥檚 Senior Director of Environmental Sustainability. TJ was recognized for the role she has played in our internal carbon [...]