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Call for Submissions: Ceres-ACCA 2009 Sustainability Reporting Awards

By Tracey de Morsella on September 15, 2009 Comments Off on Call for Submissions: Ceres-ACCA 2009 Sustainability Reporting Awards ACCA, annual Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Ball Corporation, Best First Time Reporting Award, Ceres, Commendation for Emerging Issues Reporting, Commendation for Innovative Reporting, corporate sustainability performance, Dell, disclosure, environmental, environmental impacts, environmental performance, General Electric, investor, Mindy Lubber, Paul Costello, Seventh Generation, shareholders, SME, social impacts, social performance, stakeholders, sustainability performance, sustainability reporting, sustainability reports, sustainable reporting, Symantec, transparent disclosure, Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Ceres, a US coalition of environmental and investor groups, today called for submissions to the ninth-annual Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting. The purpose of the awards program is to acknowledge and publicize best practice in reporting on sustainability, environmental and social performance by corporations and organizations and to provide leadership to those companies that are publishing or intend to publish sustainability reports.

GREEN CLOUD UPDATE: EPA to Release Energy Star Rating System for Data Centers, AMD Introduces New Energy Efficient Chip, SAS To Build LEED Cloud Computing Facility

By Chris de Morsella on April 29, 2009 Comments Off on GREEN CLOUD UPDATE: EPA to Release Energy Star Rating System for Data Centers, AMD Introduces New Energy Efficient Chip, SAS To Build LEED Cloud Computing Facility 40W ACP processor, 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron EE processor, Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, California, cloud computing, cloud computing environments, cloud computing facility, Data Center, datacenter, Dell, EE processor, Energy and Environmental Design, energy efficiency, energy efficient processor, Energy Star, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Sustainability, EPA, green data centers, green grid, Hewlett-Packard, International Business Machines, John Fruehe, LEED, Middle East, Patrick Patla, Power Usage Effectiveness, PUE, SAS, Server Workstation Business, Sunnyvale, very low power servers

The GREEN CLOUD UPDATE, a regular feature that covers current news in the green cloud computing space looks at the following stories: The Environmental Protection Agency will announce Energy Star performance rating for data centers; Advanced Micro Devices introduces new Energy Efficient processor, designed for very dense data center environments; SAS to build USD 70 million cloud computing facility built according to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for water and energy conservation.

Dell Powers Oklahoma City Campus with 100 Percent Green Energy

By Tracey de Morsella on March 4, 2009 Comments Off on Dell Powers Oklahoma City Campus with 100 Percent Green Energy Dell, EPA Fortune 500 Green Power Challenge, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Gas and Electric, wind energy

Dell recently made the announcement that it is partnering with Oklahoma Gas and Electric to powers its 240,000 square-foot Oklahoma City campus with 100-percent wind energy as part of its plan to reduce its worldwide facilities’ greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2015. The company expects to to avoid nearly 5,100 tons of CO2 emissions per year at the Oklahoma facility.