Tagged: Carbon Footprint
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Apple to build 20MW solar farm at North Carolina data centre News
21.02.2012 In its latest environmental report, Apple has revealed how it is planning to build a 100-acre solar farm around its data centre in Maiden, North Carolina. Apple is also building...Categories: Sustainability, Servers, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, IT Organisation, Global CIO, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Data Management, Data Centre, Consumer Tech, CIO -
EcoNav transport research receives €2.35m EU funding News
14.02.2012 The Centre for Transport Research and Innovation for People (TRIP) at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is playing a major role in an EU sustainable travel research project called... -
Energy and clean-tech challenges for planet Earth News
19.10.2011 Paris was the scene this week for a two-day International Energy Agency (IEA) meeting, when energy ministers from around the globe converged to talk about pressing issues such... -
Solar PV firm sets new world record for solar efficiency News
17.01.2012 With the World Future Energy Summit taking place in Abu Dhabi this week, US company First Solar has just revealed that it has set a new world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe)... -
Facebook on a clean energy mission with Greenpeace News
15.12.2011 Greenpeace has today ended its Unfriend Coal attack on Facebook. Instead, the duo are now teaming up to launch an ambitious clean-energy drive, which will involve encouraging...Categories: Energy, Global CIO, Economy, Consumer Tech, Green Tech, Renewable Energy, Search Engines, Social Media, Sustainability -
Aviation Authority swoops in on clean tech to make global impact News
02.12.2011 The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has received a pivotal sustainability award for its work in optimising airline routes to cut distances travelled by 2.2m kilometres, saving...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Mobility, Green, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Green Tech -
Ireland on clean-tech high as it sets new wind power record News
20.10.2011 Ireland hit a new wind-energy record on Thursday, 6 October at 2.30pm, when the power generated from wind reached 1,341 megawatts (MW) – enough power to supply 870,000 homes....Categories: Sustainability, Research, Renewable Energy, R&D, Green Computing, Green, Government, Global CIO, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, Green Tech, CIO, Careers and Employment -
Irish firms start to see fiscal benefits of carbon reporting News
18.10.2011 Irish business leaders are starting to put sustainability and carbon reporting at the core of their business-planning strategies, recognising both the challenges and the... -
Irish energy firm wins supply contract in Jeddah for US$150m project News
17.10.2011 Enterprise Ireland is leading a trade mission of 45 companies to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week. Already, the Irish energy company CES Energy has secured a supply contract for...Categories: Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, Renewable Energy, R&D, Private Irish Business, Jobs, Investments, Infrastructure Management, Green Computing, Green, Government, ERP & Supply Chain Management, Enterprise, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, Deals Done, Data Centre, Contract, Green Tech, CIO -
Ford reveals green vision and smart tech for future vehicles News
14.10.2011 This week I had the opportunity to visit Ford Motor Group’s Lommel Proving Ground in northern Belgium, one of the world’s leading car test centres and the site where Ford... -
Dublin's Clerys embraces electric car charging News
10.10.2011 The world's oldest department store (Clerys) in Dublin City has today yet again reinvented itself to embrace a new electric car era. ESB ecars, a division of ESB Electric...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Jobs, Green, Engineering, Energy, Education, eCommerce, Consumer Tech, Computers, Communications, Green Tech, CIO -
The cloud and your firm’s carbon footprint News
15.10.2011 The school of thought that cloud computing can help businesses globally reduce their carbon footprint needs to move from notion to fact.Categories: Virtualisation, Sustainability, IT Management, Infrastructure Management, Green Computing, Financial, Energy, Data Centre, Green Tech, CIO -
OpenHydro wins pivotal engineering award News
05.10.2011 Ireland’s pioneering clean-tech company OpenHydro, which is building the world's first large-scale, grid-connected tidal energy farm with energy giant EDF off the north coast of...Categories: Telecommunications, Sustainability, Science, Research, Renewable Energy, R&D, Jobs, Green, Global CIO, ERP & Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Engineer, Consultant, Green Tech, CIO -
Cycle to Work scheme grabs fitness-conscious commuters News
04.10.2011 The Cycle to Work scheme has only been up and running in Ireland for just over two years, yet over 90,000 people have already capitalised on it, availing of the tax incentives...Categories: Tax, Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, Renewable Energy, Recycling Services, Mobility, Jobs, Green Computing, Green, Engineer, Energy, Economy, Green Tech, CIO -
Sports stadiums go green: from Croke Park to Minnesota Twins News
19.09.2011 Since the baseball stadium of the Minnesota Twins set a new standard in 2010 when it opened its new target field using a rainwater recycling system to meet 50pc of its water...Categories: Sustainability, Special Events, Renewable Energy, Recycling Services, Green Computing, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy -
Dell Ireland rewarded for its Green Team sustainability vision News
15.09.2011 Dell Ireland has been nominated for two EnviroCom Awards, with the tech leader’s Green Team in Ireland having pioneered a more sustainable approach to its business operations by... -
Renewable energy powers Interxion’s London data centre News
12.09.2011 Interxion's London data centre has taken another step forward in reducing its carbon footprint by signing up to 100pc renewable energy from UK provider SmartestEnergy. -
Google discloses its carbon footprint for the first time News
08.09.2011 Google has today published its energy usage figures, revealing that its CO2 footprint – at almost 1.5m tonnes per year – is all down to the cloud: doing more with less. -
Global hotel chains team up to lower carbon footprint News
05.09.2011 A new carbon measurement group formed by the World Travel & Tourism Council, the International Tourism Partnership, and backed by 12 major hotel brands such as Hilton Worldwide,...Tags: Carbon Footprint, CO2 Emissions,