Republican Presidential candidate, John McCain is betting that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin can help bring the right kind of reform to Washington, restoring accountability and effectiveness to government, and working to secure energy independence, according to a WSJ opinion piece by a senior policy adviser and national spokesperson for the McCain campaign. The fact is [...]
There is growing demand for legal advice on environmental law from clients such as developers, venture capitalists, and even state and local agencies seeking good environmental counsel to avoid costly litigation, according to an Environmental Law Forum at the University of Virginia. One member of the panel discussion, Bill Sinclair, an Attorney with Beveridge & [...]
The American Solar Energy Society finds that renewable energy and energy-efficient industries were responsible for the creation of nearly 8.5 million jobs in 2006, and that number is expected to reach 40 million by 2030, according to the AP. Overall, concerns over climate change and rising oil prices have made reducing energy consumption and emissions [...]
IBM recently announced plans to build a $360 million state-of-the-art data center at its facility in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina - the latest addition to the company’s Project Big Green. The company is renovating an existing building on its RTP campus to create one of the most technologically advanced… and energy efficient data [...]
Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have assumed a more centralized planning function in companies, according to SearchCIO.com, citing a new Forrester Research study. The study also shows that as the IT function has taken on a more strategic role, the CIO more often reports to the chief executive. The report quotes Bobby Cameron, Principal Analyst at Forrester [...]
Data center managers have the technologies at their disposal that can cut their energy consumption by nearly 50% and reduce associated greenhouse gas emissions by an amount equal to taking 8 million cars off the road, according to GreenerComputing, citing the Data Center Demonstration Project. According to the report, the new research, which was launched [...]
Concerns over climate change and rising oil prices have made reducing energy consumption and emissions a priority for businesses and governments around the world. On Wall Street, there is a “green” revolution under way, as a growing number of firms implement initiatives to decrease their carbon footprint according to SecuritiesIndustry.com. Citigroup, Wachovia, Barclays and Washington [...]
The issue of data center efficiency is garnering more attention as companies face mounting pressure to cut back on spending. That’s because the massive, energy-gobbling data centers that hold racks of mission-critical equipment are costly to maintain. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that data centers in the U.S. consumed 61 billion kilowatt hours of [...]
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