In an effort to help clients benchmark and improve efficiency of their IT operations and reduce their environmental impact, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the industry's first corporate-led initiative to enable clients to earn energy efficiency certificates for reducing the energy needed to run their data centers.

General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner announced today a far-reaching collaborative strategy to support the Chinese government’s pursuit of energy-efficient and environmentally friendly transportation that will be based on the principle of “in China, with China, for China.”

Brother Industries, Ltd. will release the direct drive programmable electronic pattern sewer with cylinder bed, which has the world’s highest sewing speed (2,700 rpm) and is the industry’s most energy efficient.

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today unveiled new UltraSPARC T2-based servers that deliver advanced virtualization capabilities, increased system utilization and industry-leading energy efficiency.

Building aircraft wings with a special aluminium fibre combination makes them nearly immune to metal fatigue. The application of this technology, partly developed at Delft University of Technology, will lead to substantial savings. The unusual qualities of this special material (called CentrAl, an abbreviation of Central Reinforced Aluminium) can make a significant contribution to the development of truly energy-efficient, ‘green’ aircraft.

New Family of Intel Xeon Processor-Based Servers, Powered by the Solaris OS, Melds Innovative Design with Industry-Leading Performance, Density and Energy Efficiency

Intel Corporation today announced the launch of an open source community project designed to meet the growing demands for increased energy efficiency across the computing spectrum spanning servers in data centers to personal mobile devices.

General Motors (GM) received the Corporate Energy Management of the Year Award from the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) yesterday at the association’s annual conference in Atlanta.

U.S. college students could reduce CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 1.8 million tons this year - the equivalent of taking more than 350,000 cars off the road - by enabling power saving features on their desktop PCs.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today publicly released a report to Congress assessing the current trends in energy use and costs of data centers, outlining existing and emerging opportunities for energy efficiency. The report was requested by Congress in legislation passed in December 2006, which was introduced by Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Representative Mike Rogers (R-MI).