Cloud Campaign Rains On Apple’s Parade

Greenpeace protests at Apple store

Greenpeace activists worldwide conclude protests designed to pressure Apple into cleaning up the carbon footprint of the iCloud with renewables. Read more →

Humming With Data: How The Cloud Enables Electric Car Adoption

The widespread adoption of electric vehicles presents a problem that must be solved with data – specifically, cloud-based software that will collect information on electric vehicles connected to the grid. Read more →

How Green Is The Cloud?

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It seems that whether computing goes green depends less on the cloud than all of the people standing beneath it. Read more →

Google Greens The Details On Email, Offsets

Google's green initiatives

Gmail is 80 percent more efficient than in-house email? That's just one new green tidbit coming out of the Googleplex. Read more →

Does Cloud Computing Really Save Energy?

Cloud Computing, CDP, AT&T

The Carbon Disclosure Project out of England has released a study funded by AT&T that says cloud-computing can save billions in energy costs each year. Read more →

Blowing Cloud Data To A Windy Power Source

Wind Turbine in Hand

Software is being developed that would route automatically data, stored on cloud computing systems, to data centers powered by the wind. Read more →

Greener Computing Need Not Be That Hard

Dell Green Laptops

Energy-efficient computers, green computing habits, cloud computing and e-waste recycling--in this primer, we cover the essentials of greener computing. Read more →

Cloud Computing Can Cut Carbon Emissions

Microsoft Cloud Computing Study

According to a new study commissioned by Microsoft, small businesses can reduce computing carbon emissions by as much as 90% by switching to cloud computing. Read more →

Greenpeace: Cloud Computing A Potential Future GHG Issue?

Greenpeace

Greenpeace is targeting the release of the iPad by focusing upon the problems around the potential increased use of fossil fuels like coal in IT applications such as cloud computing. Read more →