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• Smarter Cities ~ A Project by the Natural Resources Defense Council

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 161
  About smarter cities: “When thinking about the urban environment, more often than not problems come first to mind.  Less commonly thought about is the potential presented by cities, potential to rethink and reshape their environments responsibly.  Today urban leaders—mayors, businesses and community ...
  6 hours ago

• Best of Inhabitat: The Worlds Tallest Green Buildings

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Photo via Inhabitat Can you figure out which former worlds tallest building lost its title to the Burj Dubai, but has now found a way to stay afloat in the battle of the superlatives by revamping itself as the worlds tallest green building ? The worlds tallest treehouse is 10 floors and has spiral staircases, ...
  9 hours ago

• Tips From UPS: Why and How to Start Greening Your Data Center

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  We’ve all heard the good news: Improving efficiencies at your data center is a sure-fire way to cut energy costs and reduce GHG emissions.But, let’s face it. The prospect of greening a data center can seem overwhelming. After all, data centers are complicated, unwieldy and high-tech. Even the most intrepid ...
  13 hours ago

• GreenBuild Conference News Roundup: Day 2

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  As day two kicks off at the GreenBuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix, Arizona, more new building products and reports are being unveiled on the show floor.Under the spotlight are two Dens interior gypsum panel products from Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC. The company claims both the DensArmor Plus ...
  17 hours ago

• Enabling Sustainable Datacenters with Tightly-Integrated, Advanced Component Technologies

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  By Dr. John Busch, president and co-founder of Schooner Information TechnologyAccording to the U.S. Department of Energy, for every 100 units of energy piped into a typical data center, only three are used for useful computing. These inefficiencies are the result of very low (~10%) utilization of the data center’s ...
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• Greenbuild Conference News Roundup: Day 1

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  With the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo now underway in Phoenix, Ariz., here are some of the initial announcements.YKK AP America has launched (PDF) two new products aimed at improving the energy-efficiency of commercial buildings. The company has expanded its enerGfacade product line with the addition ...
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• Data Center Pulse: Finding Green Solutions for Energy-Guzzling Servers and Cooling Systems

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  Think of it as a support group for data center gurus.Better yet, think of it as a support group on steroids for data center gurus.Data Center Pulse (DCP) is a non-profit, open source community where data center end users can share information, voice opinions, define innovative next-generation solutions, and ultimately ...
  2 days ago

• Opening Up Fort Knox: Looking for Transparency to Foster Data Center Innovation

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  By David Zwerin, Sustainability Marketing ConsultantWhile researching the sustainability of data centers, I became frustrated with the lack of corporate transparency around the environmental impacts associated with their data centers. Many companies talk about how efficient their data centers are, but stop short at ...
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• What it Takes to Power the Internet: Quantifying Our Online Obsession

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  US Infrastructure ran an article last month about how much energy we use to power the Internet. The above is an in interesting representation of what that power consumptions looks like. From updating our Facebook profiles to reading the news to watching last night’s sitcoms, the Internet has subsumed nearly every ...
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• International Green Building Conference and BEX Asia 2009

  
  Green Business Times — Authority: 108
  The inaugural International Green Building Conference (IGBC) 2009 was held recently in Singapore as part of the Singapore Green Building Week. The conference theme was “Build Green. The Future is Now.” and drew about 1,000 delegates from more than 20 countries to focus on sustainable building issues, green ...
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• Main Street Green: Connecting to the Conversation at Greenbuild 2009

  
  Johnson Controls: Your Energy Forum — Authority: 106
  This week in Phoenix, an estimated 25,000 will walk through the doors at Greenbuild 2009 , the annual conference sponsored by United States Green Building Council (USGBC). It’s one more sign that commitment to greener buildings remains strong as companies, government organizations and others continue to see ...
  3 days ago

• 3p’s Data Center Week: Creating a Context for Green IT

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  For many of us, the data center is something we all know exists; and as we have been reading more and more, it is something that needs “greening” to improve large corporations’ environmental footprints.Yet, aside from the select few that work and think about data centers on a day-to-day basis, the majority of ...
  3 days ago

• Enterprise Sustainability and Greening Data Centers

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  By Dr. Zen Kishimoto, Principal Analyst, Alta Terra Research Network Some years ago, energy was cheap. Few people in corporations paid attention to how much energy was consumed company wide, much less in data centers. More recently, however, several factors have changed this scene completely. These factors included ...
  3 days ago

• Data Centers as Information Factories

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  By Dave Ohara, Data Center Consultant and Publisher of GreenM3.comI have been writing on the Green Data Center topic for more than two years. After more than 1,000 blog posts, one of the things that I have found is the name “data center” doesn’t mean what most people who don’t work on them think they [...]
  3 days ago

• Climate Change Denial: Where It Counts, Its Not Going Up

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  George Monbiot is beside himself. He writes in his post Death Denial: "There is no point in denying it: were losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere which cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to scientific findings is ...
  3 days ago

• Liberty Mutual’s 10 St. James Avenue, Boston Building Receives LEED Silver Certificate for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 484
  http://www.libertymutualgroup.com On November 05, 2009 Liberty Mutual Group, announced that its 10 St. James Avenue building, a 585,000 square foot Class A office building located in Boston’s Back Bay, has been awarded LEED Silver Certification for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance (LEED EB O&M) by ...
  4 days ago

• Green Buildings Continue Impressive Growth, New Market Study Finds

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 484
  http://www.GreenerBuildings.com/impact2009 Green building activity has sustained impressive growth during 2009, amid a brutal construction market that has decimated other segments of the construction marketplace, according to the 2009 Green Building Market & Impact Report published on November 5, 2009 by ...
  5 days ago

• The Zero Energy Home

  
  TechPulse 360 — Authority: 581
  Almost two decades ago, Marc Porat captured the imagination of Silicon Valley with a radical idea and a hot new start-up, General Magic. Spray foan insulates an attic space at March Porats California home The radical idea was to develop software agents – or virtual genies – able to carry out the wishes of ...
  6 days ago

• Liquid Granite and the hunt for a carbon-neutral cement

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 582
  Cement is responsible for 5% of the worlds carbon emissions, and the race is on to find an alternativeAlok Jha, guardian.co.uk 4 Nov 09;What do you do with a problem like cement? Around 2bn tonnes are used every year, each tonne a source of 0.4 tonnes of carbon dioxide as it is made. The cement industry is responsible ...
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• New Landscape Rating System to Transform the Industry, Complete Green Building Puzzle

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 514
  The  Sustainable Sites Initiative released the nation’s first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings. A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) , the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the U.S. Botanic ...
  1 week ago

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