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Green-Collar jobs are still growing!

Inspite of the hiring being slowed down by recession, green-collar jobs are growing double than that of traditional jobs. Clean Energy Economy study which is billed as the U.S.’s first state-by-state survey of green-collar jobs states that Green-collar hiring took a hit during the current recession and may accelerate beyond its 1998-2007 growth rate of […]

Digital Realty Trust adopts BREEAM standards

BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) is the leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings around the world, with over 110,000 buildings certified and over half a million registered.These Buildings can be used to assess the environmental performance of any type of building (new and existing).It sets the standard for best practice in […]

Greenpeace Hosts Green Idol and Apple Refuses to Play Along

Greenpeace, environmental campaign group based out of Netherlands, has a mild rap on the knuckle for all leading electronics manufacturers. In a recently published report (Complete link here and also check docstoc embed), Greenpeace found some progress compared to last year’s survey, but there is lot still needs to be done.
This year’s survey had […]

Welcome to GreenCIO

We felt we have obligation to do something for our energy crisis. It was about ‘What can we do’.
That led to lot of soul searching, resulting in shocking revelation that we don’t know much about our energy usage. What better way to learn than by blogging our current events, analysis and generally keeping ourselves ‘honest’ […]