Be Eco Friendly

Leading communications and hosted IT solutions company Outsourcery has become the first software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider in the UK to offer carbon neutral IT.

Outsourcery’s new eco-friendly status will enable its customers – which include 10,000 small and medium-sized businesses in the UK – to complete their own audits without including their IT cost/carbon footprint in the calculation.

“After the launch of Outsourcery and new company values last year, we felt that it was important that we became carbon neutral as soon as possible.  As a direct result, we are now in the unique position of offering carbon-neutral communications and hosted IT solutions to our customers and partners at no extra cost.  This offers a further benefit to the thousands of small business customers that we have across the UK,” said Piers Linney, joint Chief Executive Officer at Outsourcery.  “Increasingly, many businesses want to do their bit for the environment and have put in place business policies covering global warming and the associated Corporate Social Responsibility.”

Source: http://www.outsourcery.co.uk/news/?story=outsourcery-becomes-the-uk-s-first-saas-provider&id=1501

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Norway plans to build the world’s most powerful wind turbine, hoping the new technology will increase the profitability of costly offhsore wind farms, partners behind the project said Friday.

With a rotor diametre of 145 metres (475 feet), the 10-megawatt protype will be roughly three times more powerful than ordinary wind turbines currently in place, Enova, a public agency owned by Norway’s petroleum and oil industry ministry, said.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/norway-plans-the-worlds-most-powerful-wind-turbine-1900807.html

Sainsbury’s recycling facility at  their Sydenham branch is one of the first stores in the country to collect energy-saving light bulbs in addition to portable batteries.

Sainsbury’s recycling facility at  their Sydenham branch is one of the first stores in the country to collect energy-saving light bulbs in addition to portable batteries.The supermarket has partnered with light bulb recycling specialists Recolight.  Sainsbury’s is the first retailer to offer joint recycling of batteries and bulbs, following a successful pilot in late 2009. The scheme has been rolled out across 200 of the company’s larger stores nationwide.

Read more: http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2010/02/sainsburys-introduces-eco-friendly-light-bulb-recycling/

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