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Friday, November 20, 2009 4:38 PM

EEA Selects Windows Azure as platform for Eye on Earth, AirWatch

As Rob Bernard mentioned in his latest post , Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) have made an upgrade to the Eye on Earth global observatory for climate change, and as part of that upgrade is a move to the Windows Azure platform, Microsoft’s
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:09 PM

Sacramento Municipal Utility District and Xcel Energy Customers Now Able to Manage Home Energy Consumption with Microsoft Hohm

The Microsoft Hohm team continues rolling out its online energy management software with power utilities in North America. Today, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) customers in the California area will be able to better understand and change
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:57 PM

Microsoft hits its “Stride” with Climate Counts

Climate Counts , a non-profit created to raise consumer and corporate awareness of climate impact and corporate responsibility, today announced that Microsoft has achieved their highest category of rating. Climate Counts scores the world's largest companies
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:54 PM

Microsoft joins Seattle Climate Partnership

Seattle mayor Greg Nickels announced today that Microsoft has become the 150th business to join the Seattle Climate Partnership, a voluntary program for the region’s businesses working to reduce their carbon footprint and partner with others in the effort.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:35 PM

Windows 7 Energy Efficiency post on BT’s CSR Perspective blog

Over a year and a half ago I had the pleasure to meet with BT’s CSR and Sustainability team to share ideas and best practices on environmental sustainability. BT is doing phenomenal work and have been thought leaders in this area. Since then I’ve been
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:08 PM

Microsoft and EEA Partner to bring Air Quality information to Europeans

In order to make the changes that are required to create a sustainable planet, people need to have a better understanding of the world around them. This requires us to imagine and create  new ways to see and interact with information. Imagine if
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:30 PM

Water, Water, Everywhere: Using Information Technology to Address Water Industry Issues

There have been quite a few discussions lately about Water being the next carbon in terms of major challenges that we need to address. As such, I wanted to share a new blog entry from our Power and Utilities team who have been looking at this issue and
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:02 AM

TechSoup Webcast on Green Tech Tips

This Wednesday, November 4th, TechSoup Talks and Microsoft will be conducting two free webinars which will help nonprofits and libraries learn how to reduce the environmental impact of their information technology and how to effectively use IT to improve
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Monday, November 02, 2009 12:48 PM

Intel: Windows 7 improvements gain laptop users an additional 1.4 hours of battery life

Joakim Lialias, a Microsoft Alliance Manager for Intel recently wrote on the Windows Partner Blog about our work with Intel to “Make PCs Run Faster and Longer.” We’ve talked a lot about the work we did around power management in Windows 7, but Joakim
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