Skirting carefully around the fact that fossil fuels contribute to climate change, IBM has plenty of advice for how oil and gas companies can respond to the threat from global warming

Along with other large IT companies such as HP, IBM appears to have an extremely pragmatic take on climate change.

Keen to be seen to be green with a rash of carbon-cutting services and "green" hardware, the vendor is also happy to profit from the lucrative contracts available from oil and gas companies' continui… Continue

Microsoft is encouraging adoption of its Windows 7 operating system - even if that means replacing working XP machines - but is still critical of unbridled consumption

While on the one hand Microsoft is pushing consumers and businesses to trade in functioning PCs for shiny new devices running Windows 7, on the other the computer giant is characterising the boom years that preceded the current recession as unsustainable and unrealistic.

In a statement released this week, designed to push the ef… Continue

Carbon cap-and-trade schemes are a dangerous distraction and could trigger the next sub-prime financial crisis, according to environmental campaigners and academics.
In a report released today, Friends of The Earth says that carbon markets have been hijacked by financial organisations that are creating ever more complex products which echo the mism… Continue

Despite estimates that energy prices could increase by as much as 60 percent, the government has said smart metering could help cut bills in the long term

Concerns that rises in energy costs of up to 60 percent by 2020 could effectively wipe-out any reduction in bills offered by the introduction of smart meters and grids have been denied by the government.

Speaking to eWeek Europe UK, a spokersperson for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said that it was wrong to sugges… Continue

Environmentalists have criticised VMWare's choice of hydroelectric power for the damage damming causes salmon stocks and local communities

Virtualisation specialist VMWare has responded to criticism from environmentalists for its use of hydroelectric power in a new facility that it claims has set "the gold standard" for green data centre design.

Earlier this week, VMWare announced that it had opened a US data centre in Washington State. The virtualisation software maker claimed that by… Continue