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An affordable housing project in the South Bronx is looking to wind turbines to make living there even more affordable. Blue Sea Development Company is installing 10, one-kilowatt turbines on the roof of their newest apartment building, which will lead to significant savings in energy costs.

Teleworking, broadly defined, is the ability to work from a home or remote location for all or part of the work week. Companies have been implementing large-scale teleworking programs for close to a decade, following a trend that had its root in contact centers.

Intel and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies are teaming up to produce solid-state drives for servers, workstations and storage systems. The partners plan to deliver enterprise-class products equipped with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces.

The jointly produced offerings will be exclusively sold and supported by Hitachi GST, beginning in early 2010.

The Climate Group and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative published a report called Smart 2020: Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age that outlines how the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector can dramatically cut global emissions and energy costs by 2020.

IBM plans to buy Transitive to help its customers cut costs. Big Blue announced Tuesday that it will acquire the Los Gatos, Calif.-based virtualization-software company for an undisclosed amount.

Since January, IBM has been using Transitive's technology in its IBM PowerVMTM software, which consolidates customers' Linux workloads onto IBM systems.

IBM plans to buy Transitive to help its customers cut costs. Big Blue announced Tuesday that it will acquire the Los Gatos, Calif.-based virtualization-software company for an undisclosed amount.

Since January, IBM has been using Transitive's technology in its IBM PowerVMTM software, which consolidates customers' Linux workloads onto IBM systems.

The Fairfax 5 Theater just installed a 27 kw PV system, making the landmark a greener place to watch a film. While not the very first theater to be solar powered (hello, Palm Theatere), it is the first major motion multiplex cinema to slap on some PVs for renewable power. The rooftop system is made up of 42 solar modules, and utilized state rebates and federal tax credits to help speed up the pay-back period to just 5 years.

The picture of the Nehalem processor is getting clearer. On Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger described a new "turbo mode" that pushes the 45-nanometer Nehalem into a higher gear without heat consequences.

The Nehalem series aims to increase energy efficiency and processing performance while also improving hyperthreading and memory bandwidth.

The secondary market reduces e-waste, increases the useful life of equipment and stretches budgets. From the IT manufacturers' perspective, the push to "go green" is good for business, because advances in technology means replacing network equipment. Manufacturers are producing a plethora of power-saving products, encouraging customers to buy new hardware, even if existing equipment still works, in order to save money in energy costs, which does not seem like an Earth-friendly definition of green if you consider what happens to most end-of-life products.