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IBM leads Green Sigma Coalition
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-06-23 18:38:43
A new alliance led by IBM aims to improve energy, water, waste and greenhouse gas management through interoperability. Green Sigma applies Lean Six Sigma principles and practices to these areas.


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Give your gaming a green tinge
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Sustainability

Category: Energy conservation technologies

2009-04-02 19:56:16
See all those little red lights on your electrical equipment?  Remember all those “black balloon” adverts?  Feeling too lazy to flick the switch at the point after a gaming session?  If so, there are a couple of new products about to hit the Australian market that might save your hip pocket as well as your ever-polluting soul.


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CO2 chomping Algae to fuel cars, cut greenhouse gas and create jobs
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-03 18:17:08
A CSIRO discovery could lead to a new boom industry that would not only solve the world's energy problems but also its greenhouse gas concerns, while creating much needed employment. It might sound too good to be true, but the CSIRO, Australia's flagship research organisation, is no pie in the sky organisation and it is deadly serious about this.


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NASA's carbon dioxide mission fails to orbit, and crashes
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2009-02-24 07:42:53
After lifting off at 1:55 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) on Tuesday, February, 24, 2009, NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory did not reach its intended orbit. Its mission was declared 'lost' when it crashed into the Antarctic Ocean.


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Micro-USB picked as universal mobile handset charging port
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-17 21:08:11
So a mobile phone industry body has finally settled on a standardised charging scheme. I smell greenwash.


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Apple shareholders propose, directors oppose
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2009-01-08 21:20:06
Apple shareholders are putting four motions to the company's annual meeting on February 25, but the board of directors is opposing each and every one of them.


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Carbon emissions reporting software launched in Australia
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Sustainability

Category: Green IT

2008-11-18 19:28:09
In what is claimed to be a first, a new reporting software product, aimed at simplifying carbon emissions reporting across Australia’s business community, has been launched.


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Force bosses to go green say Aussie workers
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability

Category: Green IT

2008-08-25 00:17:02
Australian companies are not thinking about the environment, according to a new survey. More than half of Australian employees say environmental issues are not on the agenda at their workplaces, and one third say legislation would the most effective way of making businesses become environmentally responsible.


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Biofuel green credentials: DEBUNKED!
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Sustainability

Category: Alternative energies

2008-08-14 05:52:33
A new report from the UK Renewable Fuels Agency admits that only 19 percent of biofuels meet environmental standards...


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Flat screen TVs: giving the world's climate a roasting?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science

Category: Climate

2008-07-03 21:10:47
Is that shiny new LCD or plasma TV in your house a major contributor to global warming? A new research paper is making a shocking claim that's nothing to do with power consumption, but some critics think it's just some outrageous scaremongering and nary but a load of hot air!


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Prince Charles runs Aston Martin on wine and cheese
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science

Category: Climate

2008-07-02 08:19:48
The 2008 Annual Review of household expenses for the heir to the British throne, shows that Prince Charles has converted one car to run on wine and cheese while several others run on used cooking oil. All of which has helped reduce the Prince's carbon footprint by 18 percent while maintaining his reputation for eccentricity...


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Desktop software: not green, not lean and mighty unclean
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2008-06-09 03:17:23
An alternative title for this article was polluting the world, one program at a time but that's not fair. There's plenty of good software being developed that isn't a wasteful source of greenhouse gases, it just generally doesn't sit on the desktop anymore.


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Intel tries to reconcile global warming and Moore's Law
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2008-06-07 21:31:39
Driving a V8 gas guzzler in these days of skyrocketing fuel prices and fossil fuel induced climate change is no longer considered cool. So why should it be cool to own a supercharged power hungry desktop or laptop computer? Is Moore's Law dead? Not according to Intel.


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Australia's "ungreen" government cans solar panel rebates
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2008-06-06 02:28:10
In what must surely be the most bone-headed decision in the history of the green energy movement, the Rudd Labor Government has decided to squash the nascent local solar panel industry. The same government that paid lip service to environmental concerns by signing the Kyoto Protocol has decided to make installation of home solar panels a class issue.


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Green gamers? I don’t think so
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT

Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog

2008-06-03 21:21:19
What uses more power, a Sony PS3 or your average-sized refrigerator?  According to Choice magazine gaming systems and associated home entertainment equipment is chewing through more juice than ever.


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Revolutionary Lithium Ion battery research now funded by Saudis
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2008-04-18 08:58:48
In January this year, the news broke that an assistant Professor and his team at Stanford University had invented a revolutionary battery technology capable of holding ten times the energy of existing Lithium Ion batteries. Now the Professor's ongoing research is being funded to the tune of $10 million by a startup university in Saudi Arabia and conspiracy theories are flowing as thickly as oil.


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Electric cars? John D. Rockefeller Jr was no fool
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-03-17 23:11:45
Want to buy the car that only the super-rich of the 1910 and 1920s could afford? It’s the Detroit Electric, a car that should have seen the world choose electricity over petrol decades ago, but for the fact oil and petrol became so cheap as to give electric cars a shock that they’re only recovering from now.


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You can go green even in death
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Climate

2008-03-12 21:14:24
An Australian study by its largest cemetery has found that cremations are more environmentally friendly than burials.     
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Australia and China in clean coal research agreement
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Science

Category: Energy

2008-03-05 21:25:30
Australia and China have signed a formal international agreement for clean coal research which could result in a massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the coal fired power stations that proliferate throughout both countries.


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Virgin flies first commercial plane with biofuel
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Climate

2008-02-24 09:14:06
Sir Richard Branson is trying to fly greener skies with the first flight of a commercial aircraft fueled partially with biofuel. Specifically, he just flew a Boeing 747 partially filled with biofuels made with babassu nut oil  and coconut oil.         
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