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• Mobile app lightens paperwork at Ace Contractors

  Ace Contractors has reduced paper use and expedited its compliance operations by digitising site inspection forms in a mobile app.

• Paperless office still not a reality: HP

  HP is not worried about the rise of digital reducing the amount of paper printing, according to company officials at the HP World Tour in Beijing.

• Google, Cisco lauded for green IT efforts

  Cisco and Google have shared the top spot in Greenpeace's latest Cool IT Leadership rankings. The leaderboard from the advocacy organisation tracks IT companies' efforts to implement environmentally sustainable technologies as well as businesses' political advocacy for eco-friendly policies.

• Using open source to build sustainable communities

  A forthcoming documentary from Filament Features will feature the work of the Open Source Ecology project, which aims to produce a set of open source tools capable of building environmentally sustainable communities.

• Fresh air cools Telstra, Optus mobile sites

  In one of the hottest summers on record, Telstra and Optus relied on fresh air cooling and high-efficiency air conditioners to keep their mobile networks going, officials from the companies said last week.

• Green Room feature

  The old adage ‘you can’t improve what you can’t measure’ seems particularly apt when it comes to bringing data centres up to a point where their power consumption, and corresponding carbon emissions, can be properly reported back to the business.

• NextDC gets green light for Sydney data centre

  Data centre operator NextDC (ASX: NXT) has been given the go-ahead to kick off construction on its latest data centre in Sydney, S1, which was initially announced back in March.
  

• Green storage solutions for SMBs part 2

  In part two of this feature Computerworld examines Green messaging by the major vendors including product effectiveness and competitive strategy.

• Green storage solutions for SMBs pt1

  With ever-increasing storage capacity and escalating energy costs, the small to medium business (SMB) sector is looking for solutions to address both the capital and operational costs of storage.

• How green is the Cloud?

  There’s an argument doing the rounds that says the best way to describe the Cloud’s Green benefits is to compare it to commuters abandoning their cars in favour of public transport. The more commuters abandon their cars, the greater the carbon reduction benefits.

• Ford debuts all-electric car

  Ford Motor Company debuted its first all-electric vehicle, the Focus Electric, at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show Friday. It is one of five new electrified vehicles that will be available in North America and Europe by 2013.

• Sharp buys US solar project developer

  Sharp will acquire Recurrent Energy, a U.S. developer of solar energy projects, in a deal that will give the Japanese company a stronger position in the fast-growing solar-power generation business, the companies said Wednesday.

• New mobile charger cuts 'vampire' power drain to zero

  A team at London's City University has been granted a patent on a new 'green' technology that stops phone, laptop and MP3 chargers eating electricity even when nothing is connected to them.

• Oracle board against sustainability proposal

  Oracle's board of directors has weighed in against a shareholder proposal calling for the creation of a board-level committee on sustainability, according to the proxy statement for the vendor's upcoming annual meeting.

• NEC develops green technology from non-food components

  Japan's NEC Corporation may have found the answer to the nagging debate between saving the environment without necessarily starving the population. And NEC found the answer while addressing the demand for durable plastic for the electronics industry.