ZigBee is ready for mass adoption and "green" energy mandates provide a likely driver while ZigBee itself emerges as the tool of choice for advanced meter infrastructures. Energy mandates will drive the convergence of ZigBee-based home automation and control applications with AMI (Advanced Meter Infrastructure) applications.
Demonstrating that the kids of today care very much about the shape of our planet tomorrow, recently launched ZooKazoo.com, the safer, online destination for kids 6-12 years old, announced that nearly 2,000 votes were cast during its first-ever Earth Day Challenge. Asked to choose from among five environmental causes, ZooKazoo members cast over 700 votes for Recycling as their number one environmental concern.
On April 21, EPA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The Green Grid to promote energy efficiency in small computer rooms.
Breaking new ground in data center design and development, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced the world's most eco-friendly and power-efficient data center - designed to achieve a 1.6 PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) rating by The Green Grid - the lowest power usage index of any data center in its class.
Promising to transform solar power from a "boutique" option to an affordable, dependable, mainstream energy solution, MIT and the Chesonis Family Foundation today launched a "solar revolution" with the ultimate aim of making solar energy America's primary carbon-free fuel.
JPMorgan Chase announced today additional strategies to reduce its global carbon footprint. By increasing energy efficiencies in its facilities worldwide, purchasing energy from renewable sources, and educating employees on energy conservation, the firm aims to cut its global emissions 20% by 2012 using 2005 baseline. In addition, the firm will offset 100% of all employee air travel.
Owning an energy efficient home is just one way of living Green. Georgia Power is launching a four-month advertising campaign to raise public awareness about energy efficient houses and educate new home buyers about the value of ENERGY STAR qualified homes.
American Electric Power, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, is expanding its green efforts to include more hybrid trucks. On Earth Day, at Navistar, Inc.'s Springfield, Ohio, Assembly Plant, AEP is announcing that it has ordered its largest number of hybrid trucks to date - 18 International® DuraStar(TM) Hybrid diesel hybrid trucks.
The Goodyear Tire + Rubber Company, the nation's leading commercial tire manufacturer, announced today it has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Transport Partnership, which previously approved using the company's Fuel Max linehaul tires on SmartWay tractors and trailers.
FedEx Corp. today announced that its operating company FedEx Freight has completed the installation of a solar-electric system in Whittier, Calif., and is nearing completion on a similar solar-powered facility in Fontana, Calif. Both systems will provide a substantial portion of the facilities' peak energy needs.
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