Sustainability

EDGE launched in India

EDGE, a new green building certification system, has been launched in India. The system developed by Green Business Certification Incorporated (GBCI) and International Finance...

Facebook to power Fort Worth data center entirely with clean energy

Operations of the upcoming Fort Worth data center of Facebook will be entirely powered by renewable energy. The social media giant, in collaboration with local...

Indian environment ministry plans online portal for green content

India could see an online portal dedicated to environment and forest issues in the near future. Minister for environment Prakash Javadekar has announced the...

Google’s clean energy-based data center to replace coal-fired power plant

Google is gearing up to build a data center powered entirely by clean energy in Alabama. The search giant plans to repurpose an old...

Vattenfall closing fossil fuel base in Denmark with divestment

Swedish power company Vattenfall is divesting its Nordjylland combined heat and power (CHP) plant. Aalborg Forsyning, the district heating company, will take over the...

Consumers Energy launches UAV to monitor power facilities

Michigan-based utility Consumers Energy (CE) has launched an unmanned aerial vehicle that can monitor power lines and facilities of utilities. The company is the fourth...

LEGO to fund research for sustainable raw materials in production

LEGO Group has announced an investment of 1 billion Danish krone ($0.15 billion) for research, development and implementation of new, sustainable, raw materials for...

GreenTouch launches solutions with promise of 10K-fold energy efficiency

GreenTouch, a global consortium focused on improving energy efficiency of data communications networks, has unveiled a bouquet of tools, technologies and architectures that, it...