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June 2007

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Is it just me or does this sound daft?

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China marks 1800 gadgets for eco labels

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
Wind-powered office, sir? thumbnail

Wind-powered office, sir?

Could you power your office with your own wind turbines? It might sound daft but IF wind technology becomes easier to install (planning
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Firms drag heels on IT CO2

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.”
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Small businesses make own power

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









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Smarter energy markets: Another benefit of smart grids

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New buildings – even the ‘green’ ones – aren’t so green

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Forget the politicians: Vote for your favorite energy innovations

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Who’s the leading smart-city brand?

More than half of the world’s nearly seven billion people now live in urban areas, and that proportion is expected to reach almost 69 per cent by 2050. To avoid pushing local and global systems to the point of collapse, cities will need to become much smarter and more efficient Read more ...
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Managing the smart-grid data overload

Developing the UK’s smart-grid infrastructure will require communications and data technologies that can manage far more information than utilities must handle today. That’s the focus of a strategy report from Greenbang Research: “Enabling the UK’s smart-grid future: The wireless spectrum debate.” The report answers such questions as: Should dedicated Read more ...
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Incentives fire up UK solar market

The introduction of the feed-in tariff (FIT) incentive policy on 1 April has sparked an explosive reaction in the UK renewable energy market with solar leading the way in installations, according to a new Greenbang research report titled, “The UK’s Feed-in Tariff: Impact, response and market trends for the decade Read more ...
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