Local councils across Australia are split on whether to ban curb-side collection of electronic waste to keep toxic chemicals out of landfill two months after the Federal Government announced a national recycling scheme.
The Federal Government will need to create more than 1000 electronic-waste collection points — some 800 more than currently planned — to meet its 2020 recycling targets.
Organizations seeking ways to conserve energy and profit from being green may find the true gains won’t come from "greening" their data centers, but rather by maximizing the efficiency of their supply chains, said Peter Graf, the chief sustainability officer for SAP.
Alcatel-Lucent wants the telecommunications industry to turn a little more green by developing new equipment that cuts power consumption by a factor of 1,000.
SAP is making good on its commitments to heavily reduce CO2 emissions while at the same time increasing profitability according to its president at SAP Japan, Garret Ilg.
Last week we revealed the iPhone had taken out the Computerworld Top 10 Most Influential for 2009. The smartphone topped a list of remarkable people, products, organisations, trends and events that greatly influenced the ICT industry and community over the course of 2009.
Helsinki public energy company Helsingin Energia will recycle heat from a new data center to help generate energy and deliver hot water for the Finnish capital city, it said on Monday.
Computerworld continues its Copenhagen Countdown series by taking a look a virtualisation.
The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) is to roll out phase two of its environmental sustainability web portal LivingGreener.gov.au.
The pressure to achieve business efficiency and sustainability is piled on IT managers more than anyone else in business, according to a new IDC survey.
It’s time to Do Something! about paper usage by harnessing technology. Planet Ark founder, Jon Dee on technology and the environment.