It's National Recycling Week. What happens to those ink and toner cartridges that you put in the Planet Ark boxes?
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Juniper Networks has jumped into the data centre fray, partnering with IBM to launch a new offering for data centre consolidation, server virtualization and sustainable information technology. Juniper, like most of its rivals these days, is claiming significant green credentials for its new data centre solution.
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A survey of more than 180 top Australian companies conducted in May 2008 found that 73% of companies had not presented a business case that incorporated any Green IT factors.
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Most of us equate an increase in servers with increased power consumption. However, Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, claims its "green IT strategy" has enabled to it to increase servers in its data centre while reducing power consumption.
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A new tip in IBM's developerWorks shows you how to monitor application usage, system attributes, and user activity to more effectively use the power-management systems of your Linux laptop or desktop computer.
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The man once touted as the next CEO of SAP Shai Agassi has forged agreements between his company, Better Place, Australian utility heavyweight AGL Energy and the financial advisory arm of Macquarie Group, to launch a AUD$1 billion electric car infrastructure project in Australia.
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Australia is to host a distributed energy conference in November, organised by the CSIRO. The event, hosted in Sydney, will focus on ways to generate renewable and other sources energy closer to the places that use them.
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In a typical household, over 12 percent of the power bill goes on the small amounts of power consumed by devices in standby mode. Are you a gamer? Well ratchet that figure up considerably further. TrickleStar have a device to save that waste. iTWire spoke to co-founder Bernard Emby recently.
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Greenpeace has praised Apple for eliminating certain harmful chemicals from the latest iPods. That's quite a turnaround for the organisation that previously criticised Apple not for its deeds but for a lack of words.
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Updated versions of Adaptec's RAID controllers deliver power savings by taking advantage of green features in the latest drives. Energy use by the drives can be cut by up to 70 percent, the company claims.
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In what it claims as a world first, a UK company has announced a chair made from 100 percent recycled plastic from a single source. Oh yes, that source happens to be the Sony PlayStation 2 games console...
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While the IT industry makes various efforts to improve its green credentials through measures including reduced energy consumption and the reduction or even elimination of certain hazardous substances, the proper disposal of equipment when it reaches the end of its life can be a thorny point. D-Link thinks it has an answer.
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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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Intel is promising PC manufacturers and users a new generation of processors featuring a "turbo mode" that delivers high performance without generating additional heat. The chip maker unveiled plans for the new processor range at its Developer Forum in San Francisco.
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Google has continued its investments in alternative energy sources by injecting nearly $US11 million into enhanced geothermal systems.
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Scientists at Monash University in Australia, together with Princeton University and the CSIRO, have discovered a new way to produce Hydrogen from water using artificial photosynthesis. The process, which uses chemicals found in plants, works even under low light conditions and with ordinary sea water, according to the lead researcher.
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