I love stories that spotlight local innovators. You’ve undoubtedly heard about lightRadio by now, those tiny, energy efficient cubes from Alcatel-Lucent (pictured above) that promise to one day replace those roadside eyesores, cell towers. What you probably haven’t heard is how Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ brought the concept to life. Sarah Portlock of […]
ecoATM: Automated Cell Phone Recycling
Whoo-hoo! The lower-case “eco,” capitalized everything else trend is finally taking off!This ecoATM takes your old cell and gives you store credit for your troubles. Simple! The first ecoATM went to a furniture store in Omaha and things appear to…
Report: Mobile Networks Can Cut Carbon Emissions by 42 Percent
They may have faded into the background (some pretty convincingly), but all those those cell sites require a lot of power!In his new Pike Research report, “How Mobile Networks Can Cut Carbon” (subscription required), Clint Wheelock finds that with a…
An Eco-friendlier Mobile Phone Industry?
It can be argued that mobile phones are inherently green. After all, they pack a hefty technological punch in a small package, reducing the need to keep a PC or laptop up and running to perform common computing tasks….
Green IT News Roundup – Friday, June 5
Green servers cropping up all over – InfoWorld The new HP ProLiant machines, for example, come equipped with a new feature that the company dubs “sea of sensors”: 32 smart sensors that automatically monitor the heat created by the server…
