This week Environmental Leader looked at how federal agencies are using IT to reduce energy consumption. Federal agencies like NASA, the General Services Administration, the Department of Defense and the Smithsonian Institute are using information and...

Our friends over in Global Foundation Services published a blog post last night in response to the New York Times series looking at the environmental and economic impacts of cloud computing. These are critical issues to all cloud users and providers,...

This week, The New York Times published a blog post on its Green blog looking at the social cost of carbon. The post follows an effort spearheaded by 12 federal government to develop a “coherent standards for establishing the social cost of carbon” that...

Last week the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) issued its annual climate change report that ranks the greenhouse gas emissions of many of the world’s largest public companies. At Microsoft we’ve remained committed to the principles of carbon disclosure...

This week, GreenBiz published an article about smart building technology that profiled newly constructed buildings—like the headquarters of the San Francisco Public Utility Commission—as examples of how the bar is rising for energy efficiency in commercial...