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IRVINE, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- VIZIO, North America's HDTV and Consumer Electronics Company, revealed today details of its 'Using Greener Methods' environmental program, demonstrating their commitment to protect the Earth and the environment. This comprehensive program is a leader in the HDTV market in addressing power consumption and energy standards, development of new, more efficient technologies, use of materials and elimination of hazardous substances, and recycling of old...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today unveiled a new sustainability initiative dedicated to helping customers run more carbon-efficient Web infrastructure and improve their energy consumption. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100225/AKAMAILOGO ) Akamai's sustainability initiative includes a focus on enhancing the carbon...

After an extensive period of testing, researchers have launched an Internet portal to showcase the real-time measurement and visualization of energy use on the University of California, San Diego campus.The UC San Diego Energy Dashboard (http://energy.ucsd.edu/) allows users to see up-to-the-second information on a structure-by-structure basis for 60 of the largest buildings on the La Jolla campus. The data is provided by UC San Diego Physical Plant Services from over 200 energy meters...

KLEIN, Texas, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Klein Independent School District estimates that they will save approximately $150,000 per year in energy costs following the installation of its Uniphy network thermostats, a Web-enabled intelligent network thermostat created by Proliphix. The district did a 12-month field trial with the thermostats before deciding to deploy them district wide. The estimated annual savings are based on the results of the field trial, which showed over a 40% reduction...

TROY, Mich., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ilumisys, Inc., developer and producer of next-generation solid-state lighting technology, announced today that channel partner Ecogreen Solutions Inc. has installed LED light tubes at Holiday Inn San Diego Downtown in San Diego to improve lighting quality and lower energy costs. Los Angeles-based Ecogreen Solutions replaced T-8 fluorescent lights in the hotel's subterranean parking lot with ilumisys MK2 T-8 LED light tubes, which will result in a cost...

In order to save energy, consumers need to be able to obtain up-to-date information at any time about the energy consumption of their appliances, and be able to control them while away from home. In Hall 9, Booth B36 at CeBIT, Fraunhofer scientists unveil two applications that help consumers manage their power use. "Smart meters" "“ intelligent devices to measure consumption "“ make it possible to read and control power consumption, even of private households, while away from...

SAN RAMON, Calif., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Faronics and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative announce the release of the Power Management Systems Design Guide that addresses general design principles for making power management faster and more reliable. Climate Savers Computing is a global nonprofit committed to reducing IT related energy consumption. The Power Management Systems Design Guide, available at www.climatesaverscomputing.org, addresses specific reliability challenges of...

LONDON, January 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The world took a big step closer today to a green and more sustainable communications future with the launch of Green Touch(TM), a global consortium organized by Bell Labs whose goal is to create the technologies needed to make communications networks 1000 times more energy efficient than they are today. A thousand-fold reduction is roughly equivalent to being able to power the world's communications networks, including the Internet, for...

DALLAS, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T* today announced the appointment of John Schinter as AT&T's first director of energy. Schinter, who has twenty-five years' experience in environmental sustainability and integrated energy services, will oversee AT&T's company-wide energy management efforts across all energy-consuming business units, drive comprehensive programs to reduce energy consumption and direct AT&T's energy purchasing strategies. Schinter will join...

Theory also says energy conservation doesn't helpIn a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions "“ the major cause of global warming "“ cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day."It looks unlikely that there will be any substantial near-term departure from recently observed acceleration in carbon dioxide emission rates," says the new...