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Reckitt Benckiser Ads Detail Green Advantages Of Dishwashers

Ads for Reckitt Benckiser's automatic dishwasher detergent brands contend that consumers could save water and energy by using a dishwasher rather than washing dishes by hand, The New York Times reports. A German TV ad says that consumers can reduce water use 85 percent with a dishwasher, according...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-05-2007
BT Aims For More Efficient Data Centers

BT's data center chief Steve O'Donnell says the company is consolidating many of its systems onto VMware and Solaris containers to physically reduce the number of servers, according to an IT Week interview. "Rather......( read more )

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-05-2007
Ford Turns Paint Fumes Into Energy

Ford Motor Co. is purchasing a fuel cell from FuelCell Energy for its Oakville, Ontario, facility to reduce paint solvent from automotive painting operations by turning its fumes into 300 kilowatts of electricity. The Direct FuelCell unit turns Volatile Organic Compounds that emanate from enamel base...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-30-2007
Citigroup Plans $232 Million LEED Data Center

Citigroup plans to build a $232 million LEED-certified data center in Frankfurt, Greener Computing reports. The data center, which the company said would cost no more to build than a traditional facility, will go online in March 2008. Citigroup estimates that the facility will save......( read more ...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2007
SC Johnson Cuts GHG Emissions With Cogeneration

SC Johnson says that powering the company's largest global manufacturing plant with cogeneration turbines that run on natural gas and waste methane from a public landfill have prevented GHG emissions equivalent to that produced by a car driving 7,630 times around the Earth. The twin......( read more...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2007
Rising Energy Costs Force Changes At Hitachi Unit

With the price of products such as laptops always coming down, and energy prices going up, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Singapore Pte. Ltd. has been finding ways to cut its energy use, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company encourages......( read more )

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2007
Virgin Games Installs Green Storage System

As part of the Virgin Group's global drive to develop and promote environmentally-friendly businesses, Virgin Games -brands include Virgin Poker, Virgin Bingo, and Virgin Casino - is using a new storage system to consolidate multiple tiers of storage, applications and IT environments into a single...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2007
Companies Focus On Cutting Energy Use

With oil, gas and electricity prices soaring, companies are beginning to pour more money into making old equipment energy-efficient or upgrading to cleaner models, The Wall Street Journal reports. A recent......( read more )

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2007
Alcoa Installs 588 kW Solar Power System

Alcoa has completed a 588,000 Watt, roof-mounted photovoltaic solar power system at its Alcoa Building and Construction Systems’ Kawneer manufacturing facility in Visalia, California. Alcoa partnered on the project with DEERS, a global solar power project developer and Constellation Energy Projects &...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-24-2007
EBSCO Installs Solar Power System

Ebsco Publishing has installed a photovoltaic array on the roof of their building on Union Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The 192 solar panels, mounted on the roof of the Quartz Building on Union Street, feed power directly into the building, offsetting the amount of power that the company buys from...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-23-2007

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