IBM has been selected by the Calgary Catholic School District (CCSD) to implement a system to track schools' power usage and reduce energy and maintenance costs. IBM is helping the district transform their schools into "smart" buildings that use new green technologies to save money and manage facilities and assets ...

News | Newswire | Jun 17, 2010

Panasonic Corporation announced its new midterm management plan that covers the next three years from April 2010 to March 2013. Panasonic President Fumio Ohtsubo unveiled the plan, called GT12 (Green Transformation 2012), that is designed to bolster the Panasonic Group's growth potential — essentially, becoming the number one green innovation ...

News | GB Staff | May 20, 2010

Toronto, ON — As economies emerge from the global recession, the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sectors continue to evolve at a rapid pace and will have strategic implications for TMT companies, Canadian businesses and consumers. Today, Deloitte unveiled its 2010 global TMT Predictions reports and launched its cross-country road ...

News | Newswire | Jan 19, 2010

London — Green Touch, a global consortium organized by Bell Labs, was launched today to vastly improve the efficiency of communications networks.  The consortium's goal is to create the technologies needed to make communications networks 1,000 times more energy efficient than they are today. A thousand-fold reduction is roughly equivalent to ...

News | Newswire | Jan 11, 2010

Ottawa — CANARIE, Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network, has announced $2.4 million in funding for four ground-breaking Green IT projects aimed at reducing Information and Communication Technology's (ICT’s) carbon footprint and measuring the impact of ICT and cyberinfrastructure on university electric consumption.    CANARIE’s biggest Green IT funding recipient is ...

News | Newswire | Nov 25, 2009

Washington, DC — GE, Whirlpool Corporation and a number of other companies recently announced the creation of a new collaborative effort aimed at demonstrating the role of smart grid technologies and practices in the achievement of climate change goals. Called the Smart Green Grid Initiative (SGGI), the effort will include ...

News | Newswire | Nov 5, 2009

The value of having greener, more energy efficient IT departments has been well understood for the past few years, but until recently those efficiencies weren’t financially viable for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Times have changed quickly, as Deeley Harley-Davidson® Canada can attest to. With IT virtualization, the company has ...

Features | Robert Colman | Dec 2, 2009

The ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ mantra gained a lot of currency in the 1980s. Since then a large number of organizations have been aggressively pursuing 3R policies, from paper usage and disposal practices to energy usage and water consumption. There is one additional area however, that demands equal consideration: managing data ...

Features | Stuart Butts | Aug 18, 2009

Upper management's approval? Check. Green IT baseline? Check. Green IT strategy? Check. Engaged employees? Not quite. This is the scenario of many organizations implementing green IT programs. Employee engagement is one of the most critical components to your organization’s green IT program but it’s often overlooked. “I see a lot of ...

Features | Britt Burnham | Aug 6, 2009

Earth Rangers is a non-profit organization that teaches hundreds of thousands of children through school and online programs about what they can do to protect the environment. For this reason, it’s important to them that their headquarters have as little impact as possible, which is why they’ve built the Earth ...

Features | | Jul 14, 2009

As often as we talk about how much greening a company’s data centre can save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there aren’t that many resources that offer a step-by-step approach to really tackling the issue. Terrabytes Consulting’s new online Green IT Guide fills that gap quite successfully....

Features | | Jul 13, 2009

Sometimes the lowest of the low-hanging fruit of energy conservation can seem insurmountable. I know, I’ve been through quality improvement sessions and numerous process management workshops. It often turns out that the most basic office processes are handled in the most inefficient manner. Print management is a bug-bear of so ma...

Features | | May 29, 2009