Short clip: Turner's new 'green' council

February 24, 2009, 11:03am PST | Length: 00:00:42
Dan Darling, CIO of Turner Broadcasting System, believes that almost all companies have "green" issues on their mind. At Turner, they have a council to examine every part of the business, from vendors to production facilities to the equipment they buy, to see how they can be greener.

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Short clip: Turner's new 'green' council

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>> Tell me about some of the green initiatives going on at TBS.

>> Well, I think most companies are very green cognitive right now. Again, when you look at our data centers, our production facilities, the equipment that we buy, you know, we're putting a lot of pressure on vendors to be green in every way, shape, and form, from power consumption -- that's probably one of the biggest benefactors is power consumption in data centers. So we have a counsel here at Turner, as well as at Time Warner, that is looking at everything that we buy and everything that we build with green in mind.

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