Spam not only wastes your time, it wastes a huge amount of the world’s energy in the transmission, processing and filtering of unwanted email. In a study called the “ The Carbon Footprint of Spam ” McAfee estimates it takes a mind-blowing 33 billion kilowatt...

On Friday, March 11 th Climate One , a special project of the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, brought together Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist, and Bill Weihl, Google’s Green Energy Czar, to discuss how IT - from desktop to...

Can a website save the world? Probably not. But as Conservation International learned, a good one can do a lot of good. With offices in over 30 countries, Conservation International is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that applies...

We are writing from Houston, Texas where we are attending CERAWeek 2011 . The theme for this year’s conference is “Leading the Way: Energy Strategies for a World of Change”; the conference is focused on how the energy system will evolve...

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)—which holds the world’s largest database of greenhouse gas emission and energy use data—needed an easy-to-use online reporting tool to streamline the reporting process for a growing customer base. The Carbon Disclosure...

Are you a Sustainability Champion? At Microsoft we have over 430 of them working in 73 different buildings across the Puget Sound campus. The recently launched Sustainability Champion Program is another way in which Microsoft and its employees are helping...