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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:22 PM

Microsoft and the European Environment Agency (EEA) launch “Eye on Earth" today

Today, Microsoft and the European Environment Agency (EEA) launched “Eye on Earth” a pioneering online environmental observatory with the first of its resources: Water Watch. Water Watch is a web application that will provide the public with instant online
Posted by jhenretig | 1 Comments
Monday, July 28, 2008 9:07 PM

Can Webcams Change The World?

The Entertainment & Devices Partner Marketing Team along with the LifeCam and the Unified Communications Team just kicked off an effort to promote Telework and Remote Meetings. The "hero" is the Microsoft LifeCam series of webcams and its integration
Posted by FrancoisAjenstat | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:10 AM

Sungevity uses Virtual Earth to quickly, remotely assess customer sites

Check out a cool new case study on Sungevity's use of Virtual Earth to simplify solar panel installations in homes in California. Cool stuff.
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Monday, July 21, 2008 7:01 PM

King County announces second-annual ‘Best Workplaces for Recycling’ list

Microsoft has just been named one of the best workplaces for recycling in King County. Find out more here - http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/garbage-recycling/best-workplaces.asp
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:22 PM

Environmental Sustainability at the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference

As part of the Environmental Sustainability team at Microsoft, I spent this last week in Houston, Texas for Microsoft’s World Wide Partner Conference (WWPC) to learn more about those partners who have or are developing environmental technology practices,
Posted by jhenretig | 1 Comments
Friday, July 11, 2008 2:23 PM

Imagine Cup 2008 - And The Winners Are....

Well, the Imagine Cup 2008 finals are over and I wanted to repost the Press Release with all of the winners of the competition. This was an incredible event and amazing to see the innovation of these students tackling very complex environmental challenges.
Posted by FrancoisAjenstat | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:08 PM

Sustainable Workplace Design

I have a personal passion in Architecture and Green Building design so I wanted to highlight this recent article on Microsoft's newest building on our Redmond campus. The building was designed using LEED Gold certification and has a number of environmental
Posted by FrancoisAjenstat | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:16 PM

Digital Green wins award in the Stockholm Challenge 2008

Rikin Gandhi, assistant researcher at Microsoft Research India , has won an award in the Stockholm Challenge 2008. Gandhi’s project, called Digital Green , won this year in the "Culture" category. Digital Green is a combined system of technology and social
Posted by FrancoisAjenstat | 1 Comments
Sunday, July 06, 2008 12:54 PM

Imagine Cup 2008 - Software Design Semi-Finalist Teams Announced!

As posted on the Imagine Cup blog . After 2 days of intense competitions between our 60 Software Design teams, the twelve Semi-Finalists have been announced. Tonight these teams will face off again in front of the judges, and tomorrow morning we'll announce
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 1:33 AM

Imagine Cup 2008 - Invent for the Planet!

This week are the finals for the Imagine Cup 2008 World Championships. The Imagine Cup is a truly global competition where young people are encouraged to apply their imagination, their passion and their creativity to technology innovations that can make
Posted by FrancoisAjenstat | 1 Comments
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