China’s Huawei Technologies has launched a new solution that promises to reduce base station power consumption by 60%. Huawei’s Green Site Solution uses optimized hardware design, an innovative power amplifier and power consumption management, to help operators realize a high level of power saving. The solution adopts leading power amplifier technologies, including DPD and A-Doherty, [...]

BetterWorld Telecom, a new full-service voice and data telecommunications services carrier based in Reston, Virginia, has received Zerofootprint’s certification as the first telecom provider in North America to achieve carbon-neutral status. Zerofootprint, based in Toronto, Canada, is an organization that provides information, products and services to people and businesses working to reduce their environmental impact. [...]

UK firm, Cranberry, says its new Small Client, SC20, consumes only 9 watts of power, compared to the average power consumption of 750 watts by a typical mid-range PC. According to the company’s research, the SC20 offers a 95% reduction in carbon emission compared to the average office PC. The paperback-sized SC20 runs Windows XP [...]

Canon U.S.A’s new Generation Green brand aims to help its customers understand the company’s green initiatives. The brand consists of three product classifications: Eco-Conscious, which highlights several packaging changes to boost shipping and packaging efficiency; Eco-Standards, which marks products that adhere to industry standards

Google announced that it has made a US$10 million investment in eSolar, a California-based solar thermal power developer first identified as a partner in the Internet search giants RE < C initiative. The investment was part of an announcement by Google.org of core initiatives to combat climate change, poverty and emerging threats. More than US$25 [...]

Two separate reports have come to the same conclusion: That IT organizations are slow to address climate change because they are often cushioned to the effects their systems have on energy costs. While the amount of energy to power the corporate IT infrastructure continues to grow, most IT departments are still not accountable for the [...]

The ‘Greenness’ of technology vendors will become an increasingly important deciding factor as IT executives look for new purchases, according to the results of a new survey by market researcher, IDC. It is becoming clear across the board that end-users will be expecting vendors to take more responsibility in terms of bringing ‘Green’ products and [...]

The industry of telecommunications came in dead last in an annual list of corporate sustainability. The Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World is compiled by Canadian media firm, Corporate Knights Inc. and international investment advisory, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors Inc. and lists the top 100 sustainable large corporations across 17 countries. The companies [...]

Comment: Tony Chan The room installed with the Cisco telepresense system wasn’t all that big. Inside the elongated room was a long curved desk that stretched the length of the room. Mirroring the curve of the desk on the facing wall, to form kind of an eye shape if you looked from directly above, was [...]

While not exactly on the topic of sustainable telecommunications practices, a speech made by US Treasury Under Secretary David H. McCormick on China’s Journey to Environmentally Sustainable Growth at the West Coast Leadership Dialogue 2008, revealed some interesting figures on the role of the developed world in not only reducing carbon emission levels, but to [...]