Can electronic medical records (EMR) help hospitals, clinics and doctor’s offices go green? Yes, but not right away. Kaiser Permanente, a health care giant, used itself as a test case and the results are encouraging. Transitioning to electronic medical records can cut CO2 emissions by up to 1.7 million tons a year. The New York […]
Today’s 10: Twitter Tuesday Edition – May 3, 2011
Here’s what’s making news today on the Green IT and cleantech (and social media) fronts: Verizon has a new new carbon intensity metric based on how many terabytes course through its platforms; IBM’s Smarter Planet campaign resonates online and in social media; and a 64-chip that consumes just one watt of electricity? Adapteva says yes. […]
EV 101: With V2G, your car is the battery
Besides reducing carbon emissions from car travel and ending America’s love affair with the fuel pump, electric vehicles (EVs) can perform another important function: energy storage for renewable energy sources. GE’s new Txchnologist website has an infographic that illustrates how your (future ?) plug-in can one day become a pivotal piece of the smart grid […]
U.N. to StEP up e-waste monitoring
The electronics industry’s dirty little secret is about to get more international attention thanks to a U.N. program to monitor where our discarded gadgets end up. The New York Daily News is reporting that a United Nations program called StEP (Solving the E-Waste Problem) will monitor ports in Asia and West Africa to help pinpoint […]
ecoSocial Spotlight: Save the Redwoods League
My inbox and press releases do not get along… at all. So it’s a minor miracle that an alert today from Save the Redwoods League wasn’t trashed at first glance. What spared it from my ruthless delete key? An intriguing mobile tech angle that incorporates crowdsourcing in the form of the League’s newly-released Redwood Watch […]
Infographic of the Day: Peer-1’s top sites online
I hope your mouse wheel’s up to the task because this one’s a scroll-a-thon. (That up there is a mere sampling.) Peer-1 Hosting, which knows a thing or two about green data centers, has cooked up a spiffy, super-sized infographic of today’s most visited online destinations and the power it takes to keep their IT […]
This Earth Day, think of the children!
Here at ecoINSITE, it’s more about green data centers and cleantech innovations. Connecting with kids… not so much. Worry not, National Geographic has it covered when it comes to getting your kids excited about the awesomeness that is planet earth. If you’re looking for some online resources to share with younger minds with Earth Day, […]
LOL of the day: Achievement Unlocked!
It was hard to find a Green IT angle on this genius post at evilrouters.net, but I think I found it. Under the In Progress section, Deforester! Resist the urge to print, folks. Not only do you save energy and paper, you improve productivity by avoiding the Easter egg hunt that has become the paper […]
Slashing energy costs by $2 per employee per day
Now multiply that by your company’s headcount and the brilliance of Jen Indovina’s passion for automating the waste reduction process becomes a little contagious. On Friday, TED Blog’s Alana Herro posted an interview with Indovina, the inventor behind PICOwatt, a wireless smart plug that targets energy wasters and vampire power and can be controlled over […]
Done deal: IBM completes Tririga buy, angles for smart buildings boom
A few weeks ago, IBM made one of its strongest plays in the smart buildings market by announcing that it was acquiring Las Vegas-based Tririga. Today, word is that the deal is done. Financial terms remain undisclosed, however. With Tririga, a maker of facility and real estate management software, in the fold, IBM can leverage […]
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