The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we still do not have Energy Star rated servers. This really is not as hard as some would have us believe.  Even though it is not an exact science - witness the legion of consumers [...]

A solar radio-site system from Ericsson will provide enough clean energy to power Digicel’s network coverage in remote areas of Suriname, the company announced. The system will help Digicel, the largest mobile telecommunications operator in the Caribbean, lower its energy consumption, reduce operating and maintenance costs and reduce the company’s environmental impact. Ericsson’s main remote GSM base [...]

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country’s move to a low carbon economy, Reuters reports. The timing is being questioned with the economy facing growing recessionary pressures.

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to an MIT analysis. Despite the quick adoption and unsure start of the European system, which operates internationally and is larger than either of the U.S. programs for SOx and NOx, it is “far more [...]

The Bureau of Land Management says it is calling off a recently announced moratorium on applications to build solar plants on public lands, The Associated Press reports. The bureau wanted to put new applications for solar plants on federal land on hold until May 2010 while it reviewed potential environmental impacts from such plants. Although the bureau [...]

In a new video, “Sustainability: The Textile Revolution,” Cotton Incorporated discusses what’s now possible in eco-friendly textile processing. A follow-up to the cotton industry group’s video on the fabric’s agricultural sustainability, the new video focuses on global technology developments and mill case studies from China, India, and Latin America, the United States and Europe, the group [...]

U.S. companies could have saved up to $46 million over the three-day Independence Day weekend, according to a report produced by 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy. The report says if the 104 million workers who use PCs at work left them on for the long weekend, they would have contributed 474 million pounds of [...]

An anaerobic digestion facility installed by Ecovation will process stillage from the Maker’s Mark bourbon whiskey brewing facility to produce a methane and carbon dioxide biofuel to power the distillery’s boilers, WQMF reports. The company expects to offset between 15 and 30 percent of its natural gas consumption with the processor that has been incorporated into [...]

Logan International Airport has saved about one ton of carbon dioxide emissions since the installation of 20 10-foot-tall wind turbines on the roof of its offices that officials there expect will generate about 100,000 KWH a year, or about two percent of the building’s monthly energy use, USAToday reports. The turbines should generate an annual savings [...]

Enterprise Rent-A-Car expects a move from PCs to HP thin clients will cut energy consumption by 5 million kilowatt-hours, save about $500,000 annually, and reduce CO2 emissions by 6.5 million pounds per year, Computerworld reports. The network of more than 45,000 thin client terminals – operated through 743 terminal servers – connects Enterprise rental offices throughout [...]