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  • Copenhagen Countdown - A look at ways ICT can help

    With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) due to kick off in Copenhagen on December 7 and the country's politicians debating an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the Australian ICT industry is gearing up for what some suggest could – and should – be a green revolution.

  • TVs and computers to be targeted in e-waste recycling program

    Computers and televisions will be the first products regulated as part of a national recycling scheme endorsed by state and federal environment ministers. Federal environment minister, Peter Garrett said in a statement that the new "industry-run national collection and recycling scheme" will be up and running in or before 2011.

  • Internode MD smashes world record electric car distance

    Internode managing director, Simon Hackett, has broken the world record distance for driving an electric car on a single charge. Hackett and co-driver Emilis Prelgauskas drove a Teslar Roadster — owned by Hackett and the only one of its kind currently in Australia — 501 kilometres on a single charge. The record was set as part of the Global Green Challenge.

  • NetApp, VMware light up new green data centers

    NetApp and VMware have each built highly efficient new data centers designed to provide millions of dollars of savings on energy costs each year, the vendors announced separately this week.

  • Light side of the Ark

    It’s time to Do Something! about paper usage by harnessing technology. Planet Ark founder, Jon Dee on technology and the environment.

  • Government IT managers leading in Green ICT

    Australian Government agencies are generally more advanced in Green ICT than their private industry counterparts, a Fujitsu Australia- and World Wildlife Fund-commissioned report has found.

  • Environment dept greens up IT and sets trend

    The Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) last month appointed a new IT services provider in a bid to green up its IT. Although it is the first Australian Government IT services tender specifying a green focus, this will be a growing trend according to Datacom Director Mark McWilliams.

  • NetSuite launches 'green' discount program

    On-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite announced a promotion on Wednesday that provides a 50 percent discount for one year if the customer can prove they belong to a "green" organization, such as the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council.

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