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Date Posted: 11/03/2013 Posted By: Sandip
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The Future of Energy: Earth, Wind, Water
Strip our biggest sources of energy to their most elemental, and you are left with fire—the burning of fossil fuels. To build a sustainable energy future, we will have to start relying a lot more on the other three classical elements: water, wind, and earth. This year, discover teamed up with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ieee, and the National Science Foundation to bring leading energy experts to Capitol Hill, where they briefed Washington insiders and charted the scientific, technological, and political challenges that lie ahead on the road to a new energy economy.
read more... Please, Click below link Reference : http://discovermagazine.com/2012/nov/03-the-future-of-energy-earth-wind-water
Energy Management Online - The FutureReleased on 02/02/2012
At this event, Neil Peacock CEng FEI, Managing Director, Energy International, and Lisa Howkins, Sales Director, ESight Energy Ltd, spoke on the future of energy management online.
read more... Please, Click below link Reference : http://www.energyinst.org/media-relations/media-centre/190
Energy saving strategies - a case study from Merseyside PoliceReleased on 20/10/2011
On the evening of 20 October, and at the Schneider Electric offices in Warrington, the North Western and North Wales branch of the Energy Institute (EI) held an event where Denis Mulhearn gave an excellent presentation entitled Applied Energy Management.
read more... Please, Click below link Reference : http://www.energyinst.org/media-relations/media-centre/158
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Green IT / Infrastructure Management
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Date Posted: 11/03/2013 Posted By: Sandip
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Power efficiency a growing concern in the data centre and for end users
If a September report in the New York Times is to be believed, worldwide data centres use up 30 billion watts of electricity - or the same as 30 nuclear power stations - in "an incongruously wasteful manner".
The article revealed how data centres were run on full capacity by companies around the clock in case of a surge in activity that could crash their operations, and on average were using 6-12% of the electricity powering their servers to perform computations.
read more... Please, Click below link Reference : http://www.techworld.com/business-it-hub/opinion/3408027/power-efficiency-growing-concern-in-data-centre-for-end-users/
Why green IT solutions don't work - IT efficiency is the future
Tough economic times seem to have quelled the worst excesses of IT vendor Greenwash, where every new product and upgrade was claimed to be saving the planet, much to most IT professionals’ relief.
Nevertheless, being green is a big deal. Or at least nobody wants to be caught out, and publicly embarrassed by seeming to endorse business practice which damages the environment.
read more... Please, Click below link Reference : http://www.techworld.com/business-it-hub/opinion/3342468/why-green-it-is-turnoff-efficient-it-is-future/
Global data centre investment up 22% in a yearGrowing power demand has increased the need for DCIM and cooling equipment in data centresBy Sophie Curtis | Techworld | Published: 11:40, 08 October 2012
Global investment in data centres has grown 22% in the last year, from approximately $86 billion in 2011 to $105 billion in 2012, according to the latest findings from the DatacenterDynamics (DCD) 2012 Global Census.
The largest increase in investment (23%) was in the facilities management (FM) and mechanical and electrical (M&E) sectors, including such areas as uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), cooling equipment, and data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) systems. This was up from $40 billion in 2011 to $49 billion in 2012.
The IT equipment sector – including ‘active’ equipment such as servers, storage, switches and routers – showed slower growth at 17%, from $30 billion in 2011 to $35 billion in 2012.
read more... Please, Click below link Reference : http://news.techworld.com/data-centre/3403770/global-data-centre-investment-up-22-in-year/
Heat-resilient servers pave the way to fresh air coolingGreen Grid says current perceptions about data centre equipment’s tolerance to heat and humidity are outdatedBy Sophie Curtis | Techworld | Published: 15:56, 24 October 2012
Data centres can run at significantly higher temperatures and humidity levels than they do today without affecting overall equipment failure rates, according to The Green Grid.
In its latest report, “Data Centre Efficiency & IT Equipment Reliability”, The Green Grid states that the current perception of data centre equipment’s tolerance to heat and humidity is based on archaic practices dating back to the 1950s, resulting in an enormous waste of money and carbon.
Harkeeret Singh, who contributed to the report, said that periods of high heat and humidity can be compensated by periods of more favourable environmental conditions, where water- and air-side economisers can be used for cooling. This allows data centres to reduce reliance on mechanical chillers without any detriment to overall failure rates.
read more... Please, Click below link Reference : http://news.techworld.com/data-centre/3406952/heat-resilient-servers-pave-way-fresh-air-cooling/
Facilitating More Sustainable Business
ICT for Sustainability is the new name for Green IT Expo - the UK’s leading forum for using ICT and communications technologies to accelerate the responsible business agenda.
This acclaimed educational event aims to help senior executives to understand, evaluate and implement the latest ICT solutions to support strategic sustainability objectives – via three distinct routes: ■ By significantly reducing the carbon footprint of ICT devices and infrastructure ■ By using ICT to facilitate more sustainable business processes throughout the enterprise ■ By developing reporting systems to measure, monitor and control environmental and social impacts The Virtuous Triangle of ICT for Sustainability
This ’Virtuous Triangle’ of ICT goes well beyond the simple cost-saving benefits that have always been apparent, evolving the role of ICT to become a key enabler for more sustainable business as a whole.
Entry is free-of-charge for ICT, business and sustainability decision-makers – providing access to a wealth of new research, industry insights, case studies and demonstrations of the latest innovations.
REGISTER NOW to get the bigger picture on 13th November 2012 at the QEII Centre in London.
read more... Please, Click below link Reference : http://www.greenitexpo.com/
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Compliance & Remediation Management
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Date Posted: 11/03/2013 Posted By: Sandip
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Radical revamp for workplace safety and health advice
A radical revamp of the way small businesses access official advice about health and safety online has been launched.
The new Health and Safety Toolbox is the latest in a package of online guidance, bringing together in one place everything a small, low-risk business could need to manage health and safety. Written with busy firms in mind, it makes it easy to find relevant guidance on specific risks with a few clicks of the mouse.
It builds on Health and Safety Made Simple which provides sufficient basic information for large numbers of low risk businesses.
The package of guidance - developed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) with the support of businesses - will help business owners and employers avoid wasting precious time reading what they don't need to, wasting money on unnecessary bureaucracy or resorting to hiring costly consultants.
Judith Hackitt, the HSE Chair, said:
"This package is everything small and low risk businesses could need to manage health and safety, online and free.
"It will help businesses save time and money by getting them focusing on the real risks, guiding them to what is relevant for them and steering them away from what's not.
"By going online and working through it for themselves, for free, we hope low-risk SMEs will realise that they don't need expensive consultancy or reams of paperwork to manage their responsibilities. It is of no benefit to businesses or workers if over the top precautions are introduced."
Minister for Employment Mark Hoban said:
"Small and low risk businesses should be focusing their time on growing and becoming a success not having to waste precious time and money on unnecessary bureaucracy. This Toolbox will make it quick and simple for businesses to discover everything they need to know about health and safety."
Mary Boughton, Chairman of the Health, Safety & Risk Management Policy Unit at the Federation of Small Businesses, said:
"The FSB welcomes the HSE's work to simplify guidance and make it appropriate for low-risk businesses.
"The Toolbox should give small, low-risk businesses the information that they need in a simple and easy to use way without asking them to read through reams of guidance.
"It is important that health and safety regulations are risk-based and as simple to comply with as possible."
Quick, simple guides and interactive tools on how to identify, assess and control common workplace hazards have been pulled together for the first time. Core health and safety issues relating to the type of business, its workforce and workplace are set out more simply then ever before.
Sections on the most common risks - such as manual handling, trip hazards and harmful substances - as well as tips on protective equipment are set out in plain English. The Toolbox and Health and Safety Made Simple are part of HSE's work to make it simpler and clearer for businesses to understand, manage and control workplace risks. A full review of all HSE's written guidance is also being carried out.
To get started follow the prompts on the right of the new-look homepage of HSE's website at www.hse.gov.uk
read more... Please, Click below link Reference : http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2012/hse-toolbox.htm
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Environmental Data Management
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Date Posted: 11/03/2013 Posted By: Sandip
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The Pheromone That Could Save Pine Forests From Oblivion
Vast swaths of reddish- brown pines dominate the landscape on the trails of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and down ski runs around Aspen, Colorado. The morbid color, by now a staple of the Rockies, comes not from fire or some exotic disease but from an insect no larger than a grain of rice—the bark beetle.
North American foresters have tracked the invasive bark beetle for centuries, but in the last 15 years its numbers have exploded. Beetles are now wiping out trees, even whole forests, at an unprecedented pace; they ravaged 9.2 million acres of forest in the western United States in 2010, according to the Forest Service, three times as much as that destroyed by fire. In British Columbia, the devastation over the last decade covers an area larger than Florida.
read more... Please, Click below link Reference : http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-pheromone-save-pine-forests-oblivion
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http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/ http://www.nicole.org/documents/DocumentList.aspx?w=SR http://www.hse.gov.uk/
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