Category Archives: Green

News, Software as a Service

California Common Sense Unveils Interactive SF Data Portal

By Green Commerce Bureau | September 19, 2011

California Common Sense (CACS) and Phil Ting’s Reset San Francisco presented San Franciscans with a new tool to explore, analyze, and visualize city government data, providing transparency for taxpayers to see how their money is spent. Earlier this summer, CACS launched California’s first-ever interactive data transparency portal, and now with the help of Reset San Francisco, the [...]

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Marketing & Sales

CEA 2010 Sustainability report illustrates environmental progress

By Green Commerce Bureau | January 4, 2011

Consumer electronics industry cites strides in efficiency, emissions, electronics recycling The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today released the CEA 2010 Sustainability Report to highlight the tremendous progress the industry has made in its green initiatives, from designing more energy efficient products to cutting greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) at facilities, to developing a national electronics recycling [...]

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Cloud Computing, Joyent Cloud, opSource, Software as a Service, Technology

Cloud Computing to Reduce Data Center Energy Consumption

By Green Commerce Bureau | December 17, 2010

Whether cloud computing is a more sustainable and more eco-friendly way of running data centers is an ongoing debate which gets more intense as firms like Gartner and Pike Research are coming out with reports to support the claim of cloud as a green technology. According to the latest figures, data centers represent 1.5 percent [...]

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Articles

Mystic River

By kasai | July 6, 2010
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We have seen the film. Many have read the novel. How many people not familiar with the Greater Boston region actually know about the river itself? The  Mystic River, which flows from the Mystic Lakes in  Arlington through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea to  Boston Harbor, is one of the great urban rivers of [...]

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Articles, Tips & Advice

Buy Recycled!

By milica | July 6, 2010

Recycling activity has made tremendous strides in the last few years. In fact, many communities all across the nation are now required to have a recycling program in place. All residents should be proud of the changes that they have made in their life-styles in order to do their part to protect the environment and [...]

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