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In China, more than 1800 newly-produced electronic information products have to be marked with pollution control symbols before entering the market. This comes under

Could you power your office with your own wind turbines? It might sound daft but IF wind technology becomes easier to install (planning

There’s a lot of these green surveys flying around at the moment – partly because I suspect they’ve no news but people want put a point across and get their name out. My bet is that this situation will be very different in six months. Here’s the cut down version of the press release from the Green Technology Initiative. Nearly 70% of UK businesses have no target to reduce their carbon footprint research by the Green Technology Initiative reveals today, yet over 90% of respondents to the Green IT Awareness Survey think that tackling the carbon footprint of IT systems is core to an overall green strategy. Seventy nine percent do not link power costs to hardware spend or IT budgets. “What we are doing in IT today is not sustainable,” says Dan Sutherland, founder and acting chair of the Green Technology Initiative. “Systems efficiency is the cheapest and easiest way of reducing the carbon footprint of the work you do and delivered properly it has the benefit of bringing down costs across the board.”

Some 16 percent of small-business owners in the south west of England say their companies are adopting solar heating, and 11 percent said