The bMighty Blog -- Green Business

Data Center Conservation: Some Practical Tips

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:37 PM ET | May 9, 2008

Jack Pouchet, the director of energy initiatives at Emerson Network Power, believes companies can reduce 50 percent of the power consumption in their data center, if they tried just a little. Is your small or midsize business interested?

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Most Workplace Toilet Seats Are Cleaner Than Most Workers' Keyboards

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:54 PM ET | May 5, 2008

The viruses in your computer can harm your computer's data; the viruses (and germs and bacteria and toxins) on your computer can harm you.

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Green Business | HR | Hardware & Software | Healthcare | Open Source | Security

It's Earth Day. Time for Smaller Businesses to Go Green

Posted by Naomi Grossman 02:26 PM ET | Apr 22, 2008

It's Earth Day everybody. You know what that means: Time to think about ways to green your smaller business. It's the right thing, to do, it'll save your smaller business money, and bMighty has lots of easy ways for you to do it.

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Desk Phones Are Toast - Right?

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:20 PM ET | Mar 27, 2008

I just saw a UK "green" study that warns that desk phones are headed for the scrap heap as we begin to rely exclusively on our mobile handsets. Are we ready for that brave new world?

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Green Business | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Biosphere 2 Proves Money Isn't Everything

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:34 AM ET | Mar 19, 2008

Many small and midsize company know what it's like to be crushed by a much larger outfit flush with huge amounts of cash. But history shows that sometimes, easy money causes more harm than good.

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More Things I Didn't Know About Printing: Solid Ink!?

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:50 PM ET | Mar 11, 2008

Last week I wrote that inkjets are actually cheaper per page than lasers when printing color materials. Now I find that there's actually a third way -- no, I'm not talking about not dot-matrix -- solid ink technology.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | Green Business | Hardware & Software

Things I Didn't Know About Printing

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:45 AM ET | Mar 4, 2008

HP introduces a bunch of new printers for small and midsize businesses, and I learn a bunch of new things about inkjets, LaserJets, and how businesses really use printers.

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Green Business | Hardware & Software | IT

Fight The Power: Greening Your Linux Systems

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:32 AM ET | Feb 29, 2008

Linux has a lot of advantages as a desktop operating system. Power management, unfortunately, still is not one of them. But there are plenty of ways to make a Linux system less power-hungry -- and some of the most effective fixes are also some of the easiest.

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Green Business | Hardware & Software | Linux | Mobile | Open Source

The State of Green Business: Are You Trying, Smaller Businesses?

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:41 PM ET | Jan 30, 2008

A report evaluating the effort of businesses to get "greener" has just been released and its results are, at first glance, disheartening. But for smaller businesses the "green" possibilities are there.

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Green Backlash? FTC, Others, Question Greenwashing Business Claims

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:59 PM ET | Jan 10, 2008

More and more folks -- including the Federal Trade Commission -- are starting to question the claims of businesses and processes -- like carbon offsets -- held out as environmental solutions.

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Going Green the Google Way

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:48 PM ET | Nov 28, 2007

Google says it plans to invest "tens of millions on research and development and related investments in renewable energy." While it's a laudable move, there's no doubt that it's also a potentially cost saving venture as well. Maybe it's time for smaller businesses to start taking the "green" movement more seriously.

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Laptops for Kids, Not for Biz

Posted by Cora Nucci 08:58 AM ET | Sep 24, 2007

Would you be interested in a rugged laptop that comes with a camera, built-in wireless, flash memory, an open source operating system from Red Hat, a web browser, a word processor, and more, all for about $200?

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Green Business | Hardware & Software | IT | Internet/Web | Management | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Sales/Marketing | Technology/Telecom

Secure Computer Recycling II

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:48 PM ET | Sep 21, 2007

The first step (admittedly paranoid but also, I think, practical) in recycling computers is to physically remove any storage devices. The second is to smash those devices to smithereens. The third step is to find the right place to drop off the now storage-less (and business data-less) remains of the computer.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Green Business | Hardware & Software | IT | Non-Profit | Security | Storage

Virtualized Servers Can Lower IT Costs

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:57 AM ET | Sep 5, 2007

"Within the next three to five years, all data centers are going to run out of either space, power, or cooling, and face some sort of resource crisis," says Mark Monroe, director of sustainable computing at Sun Microsystems.

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Recycle Your Computers -- Not Your Business Info

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:37 PM ET | Sep 4, 2007

The news that Sony's opening a number of electronics recycling centers across the country is good news for businesses that have stacks and scads of old, outdated, underpowered and otherwise unused computers and other electronic devices cluttering their closets and storage spaces. (It's even better news for landfills, which do not need the toxic materials the devices contain.) Just be sure that what you're putting into the system is the equipment, not your business data.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Green Business | Hardware & Software | Security | Storage

Going Green Is Big Business - Not Small Business

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:03 PM ET | Aug 27, 2007

It seems counterintuitive, but apparently corporate America, not small and midsize companies, is leading business efforts toward environmentalism.

So says Kevin A. Fletcher at GreenBiz.com, citing all the typical barriers like lack of time, resources, funds, and staff, not to mention green expertise.

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