Open-Source Website Helps Organizations Reduce Environmental Footprint

Sun Microsystems launched a new online community that lets organizations share information about their energy use, and calculate, compare and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

OpenEco.org may help companies and organizations more easily calculate their emissions and make improvements with the site's free online tools. Similar analysis often requires expensive consulting services or significant internal resources.

An organization can register, input its energy habits and data regarding fleet and personnel, import energy data, and calculate and compare itself against others by location, size, purpose, etc. Organizations can choose to share this data publicly or anonymously.

Sun introduced the site today at an event with the Carbon Disclosure Project, an independent nonprofit organization that connects shareholders and corporations around the issue of climate change. The event featured President Bill Clinton, whose speech should be available in webcast or for download