http://www.eweek.com Green IT - RSS Feeds en-us Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:00:38 -0400 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:00:38 -0400 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:20:37 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/NASA-Hopes-Third-Try-at-ISS-Wont-Be-a-Strikeout-571244/?kc=rss - The space shuttle Endeavour's launch countdown operations continued without a hitch July 10 though predicted stormy weather continues to threaten the scheduled July 11 7:39 p.m. (EDT) liftoff. The mission hauling the large, last pieces of the Japanese Kibo laboratory exposed complex to the ISS ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/NASA-Hopes-Third-Try-at-ISS-Wont-Be-a-Strikeout-571244/?kc=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:34:40 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Weather-Clouds-Endeavours-Third-Attempt-at-ISS-Mission-889692/?kc=rss - Grounded twice in June by a potentially dangerous launch pad hydrogen leak, the space shuttle Endeavour's third attempt to lift off for the International Space Station is threatened by a far more mundane but equally lethal issue: bad weather. Liftoff is scheduled for July 11 at 7:39 p.m. EDT, ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Weather-Clouds-Endeavours-Third-Attempt-at-ISS-Mission-889692/?kc=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:10:40 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/NASA-Sat-Images-Reveal-Arctic-Ice-Thinning-172523/?kc=rss - Arctic sea ice is dramatically thinning with thin, seasonal ice replacing thick, older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record, according to scientists from NASA and the University of Washington. The researchers used data and observations from NASA's earth-orbiting ICESat (Ice, ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/NASA-Sat-Images-Reveal-Arctic-Ice-Thinning-172523/?kc=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:34:34 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Mars-Rover-Remains-Mired-in-Martian-Sand-Trap-770503/?kc=rss - The daily NASA report from Mars is the same day after day: quot;Spirit remains positioned on the west side of Home Plate. quot; In other words, Spirit, one of two Mars rovers, is stuck on the side of a sand dune dubbed Troy and has been since May 6. Will this be the final resting place for ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Mars-Rover-Remains-Mired-in-Martian-Sand-Trap-770503/?kc=rss Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:01:38 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Cisco-Targets-Energy-Efficiency-in-Buildings-411083/?kc=rss - As it is doing with its Smart Grid initiative, Cisco Systems is looking to use its networking expertise to improve energy efficiency in offices and other commercial buildings. At the Cisco Live event in San Francisco July 1, company officials unveiled its Smart Connected Buildings program, part ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Cisco-Targets-Energy-Efficiency-in-Buildings-411083/?kc=rss Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:39:52 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/DOE-Launches-New-Energy-Efficiency-Training-for-Data-Center-Managers-834273/?kc=rss - The U.S. Department of Energy already has put a lot of its own power into its Energy Star server and storage programs. Now it is undertaking an ambitious educational program centering on data center energy saving. Through its Save Energy Now program, the DOE is developing several training cer...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/DOE-Launches-New-Energy-Efficiency-Training-for-Data-Center-Managers-834273/?kc=rss Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:16:32 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Worlds-Largest-Commercial-Satellite-Blasts-Off-855538/?kc=rss - TerreStar Networks launched the world's largest commercial satellite July 1, aiming to deliver 3G mobile voice, data and video communications to devices as compact as an iPhone. The TerreStar-1 took off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The $300 million, 15,000-lb. TerriStar-1 is equip...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Worlds-Largest-Commercial-Satellite-Blasts-Off-855538/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:26:08 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Aldrin-Creates-Buzz-Opposing-NASAs-Manned-Plan-897543/?kc=rss - Count former astronaut Buzz Aldrin among those who think NASA is off target with its current plans to reach the moon by 2020. Aldrin, the second human to walk on the moon's surface during the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, calls the new race to the moon a quot;glorified rehash of what we did 4...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Aldrin-Creates-Buzz-Opposing-NASAs-Manned-Plan-897543/?kc=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:49:44 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/DOE-Opens-Spigot-On-Smart-Grid-Projects-381074/?kc=rss - The Department of Energy announced June 25 the agency is ready to solicit applications for $3.9 billion in grants to support efforts to modernize the electric grid. The money is part of the Recovery Act funds approved by Congress earlier this year. Approximately $3.3 billion is earmarked for the ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/DOE-Opens-Spigot-On-Smart-Grid-Projects-381074/?kc=rss Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:40:37 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/IBM-Launches-New-WideRanging-Green-IT-Initiatives-687190/?kc=rss - In the environmentally conscious section of enterprise IT, there are two camps: the true green-bleeding companies who innovate, and the so-called quot;greenwashers. quot; The latter are organizations that simply hitch their wagons to others and pretend to be green IT leaders, when in fact ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/IBM-Launches-New-WideRanging-Green-IT-Initiatives-687190/?kc=rss Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:46:30 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/NASA-Mission-Reaches-Moon-115676/?kc=rss - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully entered orbit around the moon June 23, four days after launching from Cape Canaveral along with its companion vehicle, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. A series of four engine burns over the next four days will put the LRO into ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/NASA-Mission-Reaches-Moon-115676/?kc=rss Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:44:41 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/NASA-Successfully-Launches-Lunar-Mission-777844/?kc=rss - After more than a decade's absence, NASA made its first steps back to the moon June 18, launching two lunar spacecrafts atop an Atlas V rocket. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Spacecraft are unmanned scouts designed to lay the first groundwork for NAS...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/NASA-Successfully-Launches-Lunar-Mission-777844/?kc=rss Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:16:35 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Hydrogen-Gas-Leak-Delays-Shuttle-Launch-Until-July-589908/?kc=rss - Bedeviled by the same hydrogen gas leak that postponed the space shuttle Endeavour's June 13 launch, NASA June 17 again scratched the 16-day mission to the International Space Station. The mission was officially called off at 1:55 a.m. EDT and rescheduled for July 11 at 7:39 p.m. EDT. A hydr...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Hydrogen-Gas-Leak-Delays-Shuttle-Launch-Until-July-589908/?kc=rss Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:10:43 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/NASA-Reschedules-Endeavour-for-June-17-Launch-661664/?kc=rss - NASA decided June 15 to postpone the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour to June 17. The original launch date for Endeavour's mission to the International Space Station was June 13, but a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak led NASA to scrub the takeoff. The new launch forces NASA to res...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/NASA-Reschedules-Endeavour-for-June-17-Launch-661664/?kc=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:26:54 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Hydrogen-Gas-Leak-Delays-Shuttle-Launch-479509/?kc=rss - The seven-person crew of the space shuttle Endeavour never even suited up before NASA scrubbed a June 13 launch to the International Space Station due to a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak. NASA scratched the launch at 12:26 a.m. EDT, and the 16-day mission will be delayed until at least J...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Green-IT/Hydrogen-Gas-Leak-Delays-Shuttle-Launch-479509/?kc=rss