The World Wildlife Fund estimates that increasing telecommuting and virtual meetings could help save more than 3 billion metric tons of CO2 emissions in a few decades, the equivalent to approximately half the current U.S. CO2 emissions. An amazing reduction...

Spend some time with Christian Belady, Microsoft’s general manager of Datacenter Advanced Development and you will hear him say his goal in life is to make datacenters disappear. Anyone who knows him can see his dedication to shrinking the amount of infrastructure...

Successful construction projects are born from successful project management. Through our affiliation with Stanford University’s Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE), we have had the pleasure of learning about some big news for project...

The global scale of climate and energy challenges is daunting. As world population approaches the 7 billion mark a growing majority people now live in cities. These billions of new urbanites need energy; energy for lights, for heating, for cooling; energy...

Today we announced that we will switch to 100 percent post-consumer recycled printing paper in all Puget Sound facilities, including our Redmond headquarters. The annual savings is expected to save approximately 2,500 million BTUs in net energy, the equivalent...

After months of hard work the Environmental Sustainability working with many partners across Microsoft has launched a newly designed Environmental Sustainability site on microsoft.com. Why the makeover? We wanted to improve our site to make it easier...

I had the privilege of attending Fortune Brainstorm Green last week in Laguna Niguel, CA. This was my 2 nd time attending and as usual, Andy Serwer and entire Fortune team delivered a phenomenal event . Here are some of my key event take always: · The...

Re-posting with updated URLs. Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is coming! Each year, the WPC Awards program recognizes partners who have delivered exemplary solutions built on Microsoft technologies. This year there is a new award...

Microsoft Corp. today announced its ITPAC datacenter technology will be utilized by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of the energy efficient IT infrastructure for a new energy-neutral UN office in Nairobi. With IT often one of the most energy...