A group representing some of America’s top business leaders is calling for the U.S. government to develop a national energy strategy, including a more than tripling of the current investment level on R&D into clean energy. The American Energy Innovation Council (AEIC), whose members include Bill Gates, chairman and former chief executive of Microsoft; Norm [...]

As we noted a while back, the energy industry is becoming a lot like the telecoms industry. From what was traditionally national grids, the energy sector is going increasingly cross border. The notion is not new since subsea power transmission cables have been in place to deliver energy from power rich markets to power starved [...]

Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality. Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data [...]

Before I go on and lament the state of green telecoms adoption, and why the telecoms and ICT industries need to step up to the plate when it comes to the fight against climate change, I’d like to clarify that I support fully the development and deployment of green telecoms and green IT. As Ericsson’s [...]

British Telecom is arguably one of the most advance organizations in the world when it comes to its own sustainability initiatives. Ever since we founded Green Telecom, Live, we’ve heard on many occasions, BT’s progress on its drive to reduce its environmental impact and develop strategic towards sustainable practices. To sum those up in half [...]

Despite the general disappointment that was COP15, companies around the world are increasingly faced with the challenges to calculating and reporting their carbon emissions and managing their sustainability initiatives for a variety of reasons. The task can be monumental in scale, especially for organisations that operate across different borders, facing different sets of regulatory requirements. [...]

GSMA’s recently announced Green Manifesto is a milestone in that it represents the first official pledge by the telecoms industry (albeit primarily mobile) to combat the effects of climate change. Not only does the document set a target for the mobile industry to curb its own emissions, but also offers a systematic (somewhat) analysis of [...]

Green Telecom Live was given the opportunity of hosting a session at this year’s CommsDay Melbourne Congress, held on the 13th and 14th of October at the Langham Hotel, Melbourne. A total of six speakers from IBM, BT, Macquarie Hosting, Connection Research, Ericsson and Telstra, presented at the Green Telecom session of the event. This [...]

This week, US President Barrack Obama issued an executive order to US government agencies to adopt sustainability practices – and targets. Executive Order 13514 lays out a long list of mandates for Federal agencies to set goals to reduce their impact on the environment and ensure sustainability going forward. The document itself reads like a [...]

When it comes to network energy efficiency, it’s not just about making each piece of equipment as energy efficient as possible, but also how the network is configured, the services it can support and how the equipment and how traffic is carried on it, says Juniper Network. In a presentation to customers last month, Matt [...]