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Google uses sea water to cool Finland data centre
Posted by Business Green: Jonathan Bardelline on June 2nd, 2011
Business Green: Google's new data centre in Hamina, Finland, will be cooled exclusively with sea water, a side benefit from the location and previous use of the facility.
The data centre is situated in a former paper mill built in the 1950s by the Gulf of Finland.
"Our team was really anxious to utilize the opportunities of it being right near the gulf to come up with an innovative and very efficient cooling system," Joe Kava, Google's senior director of datacenter construction and operations, said in a video...
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Starbucks stalls on energy and recycling goals – slashes water use
Posted by Business Green: Jonathan Bardelline on April 19th, 2011
Business Green: Starbucks has made strides in the past year to use to less water and serve ethically-sourced coffee, but lagged on using less energy and adding recycling to stores.
The coffee giant's progress and stumbles, detailed in its latest environmental and social responsibility report, are in some ways tied to outside factors that Starbucks has been trying to influence. Recycling, for instance, is heavily dependent on what services local governments and waste haulers offer. While 75 per cent of Starbucks...
McDonald’s sets long-term sustainable beef, coffee plans
Posted by Business Green: Jonathan Bardelline on March 15th, 2011
Business Green: McDonald's has laid out a plans to move to more sustainable meat, coffee and packaging.
The company's Sustainable Land Management Commitment will require suppliers to gradually source food and materials from sustainably-managed land, though there are no specific timelines for now, and it is initially focusing just on beef, poultry, coffee, palm oil and packaging.
Those five were chosen, with the help of analysis from the World Wildlife Fund, since they have the most potential to be changed...