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Here in Microsoft UK our Environmental Management team have been spending the past year getting a handle on our environmental footprint and putting in place a program to reduce our environmental impact. Here are some of the achievements so far …………with
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Last week Steve Ballmer sent an e-mail to all Microsoft employees to communicate the company’s commitment to environmental sustainability. The mail outlined the company’s role in solving environmental challenges, its progress to date, and the opportunities
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Some links to Microsoft Data Center strategy. Recommend you check out the video of Michael Manos (GM of Microsoft Data Centers worldwide) in his hotel room taking you though the online tools (SCRY) we have that allows us to measure the energy & carbon
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have been one of the leaders in implementing flexible working practices which has helped them reduce costs of office space plus reduce the impact to the environment. The added bonus is that they have seen a reduction to sick leave and increased
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Verdiem’s Edison is a free energy-monitoring application for eco-conscious consumers. You can use it to more actively control your PC’s energy consumption — and subsequently your household’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This
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When saving the environment (and reducing costs) sometimes the simple things make an impact. Do you really need to print it out? If you must print select duplex and consider 2 to a page. While you are at it think about narrower margins? Is it a draft
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The Story of Stuff captures environmental and social issues associated with rampant consumption and externalising costs. Worth a look.
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A great article appeared in this months TechNet Magazine on Build a Green Datacenter by Dave O'Hara. One area he talks about is the need to make business units accountable for the costs of the IT infrastructure of which an increasing component is energy.
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Having recently moved to the UK I am encouraged to see that Sustainability is top of mind for many organisations and indiiduals. BT seem to really stepping up and doing something concrete as demonstrated by commitment to flexible mobile workforce in recent
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Many organisations constantly leave their PC's running. Employees are even instructed to leave them on over night so they can use this window to perform management functions such as security patching or software updates. And timeout screen-savers are
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I had lunch with Andrew Gray (Head of Quantitative Research at Goldman Sachs JB Were) last week and the conversation ranged far and wide across how we respond to climate change from both individual and corporation perspective. Andrew is doing some great
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I was encouraged to read an article in the Australian Financial Review the other day that some of our Australian CIO's in the banking sector are already recognizing the role they play in reducing the impact of technology on the environment. National Australian
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Welcome to my first foray into the blogosphere . Since I work for Microsoft and have a passion for both technology and the environment, I thought I would start blogging about how CIO's can use technology to help reduce their environmental impact. Thankfully
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