carbon footprint

IBM Brings the Cloud to New York City

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 31, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Big Blue will consolidate the data center operations of 14 agencies in the first phase of a plan the city hopes will save $100 million over five years.

Spam’s Noxious Carbon Footprint

Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 15, 2009 at 9:12 am PT

Email users may already hate spam, but perhaps they’ll be gratified to know that it’s also bad for the environment. Calculating one’s carbon footprint may be all the rage, but in the case of spam, it’s serious, according to a study released Wednesday by computer security company McAfee Avert Labs.

The Green Side of Online Shopping

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 3, 2009 at 11:46 am PT

E-commerce reduces the environmental impact of shopping by using about a third less energy than traditional retail–but only if you skip the express airmail. A study out Tuesday by the Carnegie Mellon Green Design Institute offers a scientifically rigorous estimate of e-commerce’s green benefits. E-commerce not only uses less energy, but its carbon footprint is also a third smaller than bricks-and-mortar retail, the scientists found.