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Jones Lang LaSalle on Trends in 2012

Chicago

If you want to be competitive, more and more building owners are seeing that it is necessary to improve energy and environmental performance. The trends show how this is being done.

Digitization: More from Energy Infrastructure

digital

We are using smart digitization on top of dumb steel, which is keeping the cost of electricity affordable.

Panasonic’s Peter Fannon on Investing in the Future

panasonic

Putting power back in the hands of the customer. “Panasonic has launched a long term agenda to become the number one green business in the electronics industry by 2018, our company’s 100th anniversary.” But what Fannnon is saying is revolutionary for a company that is known in the United States for televisions and media players. Panasonic is looking beyond the delivery of things that make our lives enjoyable, to the future of energy. How will their customers lower costs, be more energy efficient–and even generate and store their own supplies.

Businesses Banking on a Green Economy

technology

The most encouraging aspect of the green economy is in the actions of individual companies. Whether it is the way that multinationals are now building energy efficient data centers, or in the development of improved generating technologies. The green economy will advance in spurts in some years, and stall in others. But it will inevitably grow—it already has—dramatically. The 451 Group, a leader in energy savings for technology, opines on the future for the green economy.

Green Exchange Announces Key Connectivity Providers to Offer Access for Trading

July 20, 2010
(New York, N.Y./London) – Green Exchange LLC (Green Exchange) in conjunction with leading Independent Software Vendors (ISV)s Bloomberg Tradebook®, CQG, EasyScreen, FFastFill, Flextrade, OnixS,  Orc Software, Patsystems, Stellar Trading Systems, SunGard, TradeCapture OTC and Trading Technologies today announced their intention to offer access to  the new Exchange through their [...]

4 Questions Every CEO Should Ask

Pitt Turner Photo

If hot data centers are raising energy costs, how can CEOs and CFOs get the information they need to drive energy efficiency?
We asked Pitt Turner, Executive Director of the Uptime Institute, what every C-Suite should ask their Information Technology departments. Uptime is an organization that has focused on energy efficiency since 1993, and developed the [...]

“Stop Gambling with our Future”

Deal with Climate Change
There are some things that speak louder, and more clearly, than anyone could have imagined. But the UN Foundation has done just that for climate change. They created a full deck of playing cards featuring a selection of the words from the more than 2,000 text, photo and video submissions (from more [...]