With many telecom companies committed to carbon reduction, their anticipated growth in coming years will mean an increasing reliance on “green” network equipment.
Companies are shifting to more efficient base and switching centers and handsets that consume less electricity. Cell phone companies including Sony-Ericsson, Sharp, and Sprint are introducing energy saving handsets and other eco-options.
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Having worked with a client leading the way in high-brightness, high-performance LEDs, we know a little about the challenges of these breakthrough solid-state light sources. Namely, heat! For all the environmental benefits that accompany innovations in LED lighting, one challenge remains – keeping the applications cool and performance hot.
Today, start-up Progressive Cooling Solutions [...]
Waltham Technologies Inc. was launched by biotech industry veteran Una Ryan with the aim of using blue-green algae to treat wastewater. A number of other clean energy companies are also using algae to dispose of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, but Waltham Technologies’ system not only cleans wastewater of contaminants, it creates a [...]
Hara, a California startup founded by former executives from SAP and Oracle, has just rolled out a software-as-a-service offering designed to help large organizations reduce costs through better management of natural resources.
The Environmental and Energy Management system from Hara collects data about the resources consumed across an organization, including energy and water, as well as [...]
“Greening” the data center has become a hot topic over the past few years, as computing power grows and servers proliferate. Power efficiency is more important than ever to bottom-line concerns, since the typical data center’s costs come from not only the computers themselves, but also the infrastructure to support them (air conditioning units, power conditioning [...]
Leave it to MIT to blow our little eco-friendly minds with another bit of research that pushes the energy limits. A new essay from professor Daniel Nocera in the recent issue of the ChemSusChem scientific journal explores his “personalized energy” plan for individual electricity and fuel generation from sunlight and, according to Green Light blogger [...]
It’s not a big surprise that some U.S. cities are way ahead in policies to reduce carbon emissions. In 2005, with federal funding for green initiatives virtually non-existent, mayors of cities including Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle got together to create the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement – a statement that their cities would reach [...]
Coca-Cola announced yesterday that it will pilot the “PlantBottle™” made partially from Sugarcane and molasses. The bottle will be rolled-out initially in North America with Dasani water, and later in carbonated beverages and vitaminwater in 2010. According to a release from the company, the bottle is “fully recyclable, has a lower reliance on non-renewable resources, [...]
Economic woes have hit the solar energy industry harder than most these past few months, but even as most companies are in wait-and-see mode now, a welcome flow of stimulus funds next year looks to potentially jump-start the industry once again. So what do we have to look forward to? PV companies are popping up [...]