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Greening of IT March 19 2010

A High-Tech Entrepreneur On the Front Lines of Solar

Yale Environment 360 - "I want to compete against fossil fuels with no subsidies," says eSolar founder Bill Gross.

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The Green Economy

Smart Grid Opportunities Set To Explode

Market to reach $15.8 billion, but only a few firms will take full advantage.»

EarthandIndustry

The 16 Women You Must Follow on Twitter for Green Business

Sixteen green businesswomen, 140 characters at a time.»

SustainableBusiness.com

IBM Eliminates Two Toxic Compounds From Manufacturing Processes

Tech giant completes a five-year cleanup of its chips.»

Green Economy Post

Obama Administration Establishes a National Climate Portal

Climate.gov promises timely info about sea-level rise, growing seasons, weird weather, more.»

Matter Network

Cleantech Forum XXVI Comes to San Francisco

The conference will showcase new approaches, like Microsoft's Hohm energy-management software.»

CleanTechies

GreenRoad Raises $10 Million from Al Gore’s Investment Firm

Turbo boost for IT company that gathers data on vehicles and drivers.»

SustainableBusiness.com

TVA Chooses SmartSync to Manage Incentive Program

Company will provide real-time data that gives a premium to renewable energy suppliers.»

Cleantechnica

Nano-Scale Magnets for Energy-Sipping Computer Chips

Capitalizing on recent discoveries, the technology could prove attractive to established companies and startups alike.»

CleanTechies

Cloud Computing – Ease Up on Security to Keep Carbon Under Check?

Virtualization is good for the planet by using less hardware and also reduces maintenance costs.»

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Environment News Service

New York Data Centers, Factories Get $100 Million for Energy Efficiency

New York State is investing more than $100 million over two years to help data centers and manufacturers control energy costs and improve their competitiveness.»

Triple Pundit

Study Shows Bright Future for Smart Appliances

The market for energy-sipping fridges and washers might grow fivefold in five years.»

CleanTech.com

Water Analytics: Bringing Cleantech & IT together

There's gold in the balkanized and little-understood water industry.»

Sustainable Industries

Safeway Selects Hara to Track Its Resources

Software startup will track water, energy and carbon emissions from supermarket's 1,800 locations.»

Sustainable Industries

Energy Management Overload

The big winners will be the those who make an investment now — while funding is available and before energy prices soar.»

GreenTechMedia

Computer Memory Maker Eyes Solar, LEDs

Micron follows Samsung in pursuit of solar, and Toshiba into the market for LEDs.»

River Wired

HP Introduces Low-Cost Videoconferencing System

Hewlett-Packard has come out with a new tool to help you reduce the carbon footprint of meetings and save you money in the process.»

Triple Pundit

Who Is the Greenest Web Host?

If you're looking for a green web host, there's a large and expanding number of companies out there offering it. Trouble is, for the most part they do nothing different than their conventional counterparts.»

Triple Pundit

Office Vampires: Millions of Office PCs Feed at Night

Vampire or "phantom" energy loss describes the considerable amount of energy sucked up by computers, home electronics and appliances that go into sleep or standby mode when you're not using them.»

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