Corporate Culture
Survey Shows Consumer Electronics Industry Thinks 25% of Consumers Don't Want Green December 26th, 2008
The consumer electronics industry isn't quite embracing going green. That's the lesson learned from a poll in a recent issue of CEA Smartbrief, a newsletter of the Consumer Electronics Association. According to poll respondents, 25.82% believe...more
First EU Flower Eco Award Goes to ASUS Computers December 19th, 2008
Certification Honors Eco-Friendly Laptops
Looking for a greener laptop? You might want to start looking at ASUS Computers. Their N-series of laptops just earned the first EU Flower Eco Award for sustainable devices. The certification is part of the European...more
Green IT: Fujitsu Siemens Introduces Its Own Green Label December 18th, 2008
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has unveiled a proprietary, three-star ranking system for its own computer hardware products. The Green IT label looks at FSC's products and ranks them according to such criteria as energy efficiency, the use...more
Design Competition Offering $5k for Greener Gadgets December 16th, 2008
Designers, students and electronics enthusiasts worldwide are eligible to enter the 2nd annual Greener Gadgets Design Competition, sponsored by Core77 and Inhabitat. Organized in conjunction with the Greener Gadgets Conference (itself organized by the Consumer Electronics...more
Green Your Phone with Renewable Energy Credits December 12th, 2008
Best Buy Offering Mobile Phone Energy Offsets
Looking for a way to make your cell phone a little bit greener? Best Buy has an idea -- visit one of their stores to buy wind-power energy credits to offset your phone's electricity use. The...more
Start Saving Power in Your Datacenter -- Before It's Too Late December 9th, 2008
Study: Datacenters Face Critical Power Shortages by 2011
Businesses are going to have to start thinking about ways to conserve power in their datacenters immediately, according to a new report which says that two-thirds of all datacenters will not have enough electricity to...more
Cell Phone Industry Hangs Up On Vampire Power December 5th, 2008
New Rating System to Rank Most Efficient Chargers
As we've written here before, cellphone chargers are not the most efficient devices in the world. Even when they are done charging your phone, they continue to suck energy out of the wall. That energy...more
Greenpeace Grades the Electronics Makers on Climate Leadership December 4th, 2008
Nintendo and Microsoft Rank at the Bottom
For the tenth time in the last two years, Greenpeace has ranked electronics manufactuers according to their policies and manufacturing procedures to come up with a list of the "greenest" electronics makers, but also to...more
The Best Christmas Gift of All: Rechargeable Batteries December 2nd, 2008
Looking through this week's Rite Aid flyer, I was shocked to see not two, not three, but four different listings for disposable batteries -- including one "mega pack" of 16 AAs. I know it's Christmas time,...more
Do You Know How to Recycle Your Old TV? November 21st, 2008
New Report Grades Manufacturers' Take-Back Programs
A whole bunch of TVs are likely to be replaced over the next few months. Not only will retailers be dropping their prices in a desperate bid to reduce their inventory, many TVs will need...more
