Microsoft Promises to go 30% Greener by 2012
Microsoft Promises to go 30% Greener by 2012
Posted 03/17/2009 at 1:05pm
| by Paul Lilly
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Microsoft makes its way to the increasingly popular green movement by announcing to its more than 90,000 employees plans to reduce its carbon emissions by more than 30 percent by 2012.
"As a technology company, we believe that our footprint goals will be met by leveraging software and technology," Microsoft's sustainability chief Rob Bernard wrote in a blog post. "We will work to provide advances in our building operations, we will continue to expand our use of our Unified Communications tools...and will look for new ways to reduce our use of resources in our datacenters by continuing to push the envelope on innovation in how datacenters are designed, built, and operated."
Bernard said Microsoft's goal can be achieved by improving energy use in its buildings and operations, reducing air travel, and increasing the use of renewable energy. Some of that work has already begun, and Bernard claims Microsoft was able to save over $90 million on travel by utilizing remote conferencing.
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mojosico
March 17, 2009 at 7:47pm
its cool that MS is tring to become green but this might be another smoke screen to help divert the press away from all the bad things MS has done .. i cant wait to see a picture or comercial of steve balmer hugging a friggin tree or something . hehehe. the sienfeild/gates comercials did not work either . mabe bill gates needs to be put in a reailty show since he's supposedly semi-retired to help get the bad press spotlight off of microsoft. realy steve huggin a tree .lol.hehe.lol
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