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IBM has introduced a carbon-emissions modelling tool, aimed at helping businesses analyse the environmental impact of supply-chain decisions and to devise alternative business practices.

IBM has been working on redesigning the packaging for its X Series Servers. The changes have resulted in environmentally friendly improvements throughout the supply chain.

IBM has unveiled a new supercomputer called Hydro-Cluster that uses water to cool down the device and reduce overall energy consumption.

IBM is getting its developers to create "green code" - that means building software products that focus on efficiency. Another sign that green is not just good for the environment but encourages good design that we can all benefit from.

IBM has announced the Green Retail Store portfolio, a range of more energy-efficient IT products that handle all aspects of retailing, from the shop floor to the back office.

IBM has announced the Green Retail Store portfolio, a range of more energy-efficient IT products that handle all aspects of retailing, from the shop floor to the back office.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and IBM are initiating an effort in partnership with Nokia, Pitney Bowes, and Sony have come together to help the environment, unleashing dozens of innovative, environmentally responsible patents to the public domain. The pledged portfolio, dubbed the "Eco-Patent Commons," is available on a dedicated, public Web site hosted by the WBCSD (http://www.wbcsd.org/web/epc).

IBM, Nokia, Sony and bulk-mailing equipment manufacturer Pitney-Bowes have together donated patents to the Eco-patent Commons, an organisation set up to share the patents for technology with environmental benefits.

group of more than 90 current and former residents of Endicott, New York launched legal action against IBM on 3 January, alleging that the company's manufacturing operations in the area caused decades of environmental contamination that made them sick.

Subterranean chemicals, including those part of a class called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), from a former chemical burn pit owned by IBM in the pre-regulation 1950s through to the 1970s has likely re-emerged and spread under an upstate New York Country Binghamton Country Club property to the south, according to recent tests overseen by state health and environmental officials.

Steven Sams, IBM Vice President of Global Site & Facilities, is interviewed, in which he describes an energy crunch facing IT data centers and how IBM's Project Big Green initiative aims to solve it.

IBM has developed a new environmentally-friendly process that repurposes scrap semiconductor material for internal reuse and eventual recycling to the silicon-constrained solar panel industry.

As the focus on climate change continues to grow, IBM is launching a corporate-led initiative in which businesses earncash or credits for reducing their energy consumption. As part of the program, IBM Efficiency Certificates, clients are rewarded for lowering the amount of energy needed to run their data centers.

IBM estimates the recycled silicon could generate 13.5 megawatts of solar energy.

In the exciting world of solar energy, a new breakthrough that could help further lower costs.