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Prisco announce innovative options for printers to reduce environmental issues at Graph Expo, reports Whattheythink

vikash — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:23:47 +0000

Prisco has been the leader in providing affordable products and systems that have minimized the impact on the environment since the introduction of the first commercially successful alcohol-free fountain concentrates almost 50 years ago. Prisco innovations are always designed to provide the most cost effective, productive and practical answers for print production. Our “Go Green with Prisco” initiative encompasses all of Prisco’s sustainable technologies and over 100 years of PRISCO pressroom expertise. WHATTHEYTHINK

Counting green jobs in China harder than creating them

vikash — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:55:07 +0000

China’s massive and fast-growing economy could create millions of new green jobs over the next eight years, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute. The study is the most thorough effort known to date to explore China’s green jobs potential.

An analysis of China’s energy, transportation, and forestry sectors shows they could provide at least 4.5 million green jobs just in 2020, with millions more positions created in the coming years. Beyond the numbers, however, Worldwatch’s research revealed large problems in the current methodologies that exist in China to track and count job creation by sector. ENVIRONMENTAL-EXPERT

Yahoo Green Data Center Opens in Lockport NY

Nishi — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:18:59 +0000

Yahoo has unveiled an energy efficient data center, called Yahoo Computing Coop, in Lockport NY. Decision to use Lockport was based on cold climate, windy conditions and hydropower facilities available in the city.

Yahoo, like other Internet giants, is taking electricity consumption level with serious concern. Improvement in energy utilization techniques are hardly catching up with the phenomenal growth experienced by data centers powering popular Internet services. Researchers and companies are increasingly looking into this space. This Yahoo Labs page documents few challenges for researchers:

What impact will virtualization, cloud computing, and other innovations have upon net and relative energy consumption?
What are likely to be factors that increase or decrease energy efficiency at the level of code, server utilization, and data center design?
How do we benchmark improvements in energy efficiency of computing in a manner that is both standardized and meaningful on an industry level (MIPS, per search, per page view, per visit)?

Industry standard metric, Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), for this data center still doesn’t come close to average EPA number – which is at 1.92. Yahoo is promising PUE rating of 1.08. According to Yahoo, electricity saved from this data center could power 1.1 million laptops for a year and a mere 9,000 New York households!

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Nishi — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:06:42 +0000

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’ about our data center practices.

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