Macbook Air earns Silver EPEAT rating

Notice I am writing about this quite a bit thing?  I admit that based on the reading I have done that I am impressed with the little device so far, although the price tag on the SSD model – the one I think makes the most tech sense – is a bit tough to swallow.  [...]

Computerworld MBA Shortsighted if you ask me.

Everybody is talking about it – Computerworld sounds off too:
MacBook Air: Ethereal or Unrealistic? | Computerworld Blogs
One of the more interesting quotes in here (to me) was:

In my view, Apple’s enterprise-oriented subnotebook would be roughly one-inch thick, be sized to the 13.3 screen, have the MacBook Pro keyboard, and come with most of the ports [...]

Greenpeace applauds MacBook Air

I thought this was interesting…
PC World – Greenpeace Applauds MacBook Air
…especially since I see it as a good first step, I thought it interesting that Greenpeace should sound so impressed.

MacBook Air – a giant ecotech step forward?

Nice article outlining the green efforts Apple has made in the just announced MacBook Air:
Apple Grows Greener with MacBook Air « Earth2Tech
As the author says, incremental steps, but at least Apple appears to be honoring Steve Jobs pledge from a year ago.
The one exception: the battery can’t be replaced, which is a shame.
Which leads us [...]

Why track executive compensation?

I was asked the other day ‘Why does DGE track executive compensation?’
For those who may not know it, we evaluate all sorts of things (more than twenty-five areas) when doing a DGE rating.  One of those involves the tying of compensation (executives, technology management, technology personnel) to eco-friendliness. 
The basic idea here is if a company [...]

Is technology just inherently ‘eco-evil’?

I had an interesting conversation the past week on whether or not business technology – computers, cell phones, UPS, network hardware, etcetera – is just inherently evil.  This discussion was with my cousin who pointed out that so much of the components are going to cause problems down the line – batteries, silicon chips, all [...]