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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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Fiat and Chrysler create global alliance . Why is this interesting? Fiat is a leader in economical small cars with associated lower environmental footprint. The trend is away from large gas guzzlers of the past and Chrysler is getting on board. But why
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Dale Vince, Founder of Ecotricity , has now approached government with a big idea. Eradicate fuel poverty by investing the £3B of taxpayers money and £700M of industry money in construction of a ten-mile barrage on the Severn River to generate
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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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Microsoft have launched a new environmental portal pulling together all the great work we are doing helping to address environmental challenges. This is a great resource site which talks about what we are doing in the internally, in the industry and the
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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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A belated post but noteworthy for those you may have missed it....Microsoft have recently appointed Rob Bernard as Chief Environmental Strategist reporting to Scott Charney, Corporate VP of Trustworthy Computing which demonstrates to me that we are thinking
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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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Microsoft Commitment to Environmental Sustainability Fact Sheet June 2007 Microsoft Corp. is committed to environmental sustainability and continuously works to explore and implement new ways to preserve and improve the environment. Environmental efforts
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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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