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Heather ClancyArchive: February, 2012
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Heather Clancy
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Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune Small Business, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In a past corporate life, Heather was editor of Computer Reseller News, where she was a featured speaker about everything from software as a service to IT security to mobile computing.
Heather started her journalism life as a business writer with United Press International in New York. She holds a B.A. in English literature from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and has a thing for Lewis Carroll.
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Targeting e-waste, IBM opens China facility for refurbishing servers
The world’s biggest server technology company sees a ready market for remanufactured systems in emerging markets; it is the first to snag a Chinese license for this activity.
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Reading, writing and energy efficiency
Just 116 schools from 22 states managed to save more than 1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity in just four weeks, as part of the 2012 Green Cup Challenge.
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4 model communities for electric vehicles
When it comes to best practices for supporting electric vehicle adoption, some cities and states are ahead of the pack.
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Green construction project targets 5 states with 'no electric bill' homes
SolarCity and Shea Homes are teaming up to create homes with technologies and features designed to be so energy-efficient, that they should run entirely on solar power.
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AT&T adopts eco-rating system for mobile devices
Late in 2012, the carrier will add ratings considering 15 green technology criteria including energy efficiency, materials used in manufacturing and recyclability.
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Home Depot to sell Schneider residential electric vehicle charger
For now, most electric vehicle owners will need to buy the $799 EVlink Indoor Electric charging station off the retailer’s e-commerce site.
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Cree LEDs green up U.S. embassies across Europe
The installations have a dual agenda: save on electricity and promote U.S. green technology innovations.
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New Apple data center will sport biggest commercial solar, fuel-cell installations
Details are still sketchy, but company plans to run the Maiden, N.C. site with a ‘high percentage renewable energy mix.’
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Offshore U.S. wind turbines seen as vulnerable to hurricanes
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University suggest more attention be paid to turbine design, especially for technologies in the Atlantic and U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Mow your lawn, mix up a solar cell?
Apparently, an MIT research is testing how to use agricultural waste such as grass clippings or dead leaves as the conductor material for small solar cells but the method is highly inefficient.
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