Fiat EcoDrive Video Fiat Ecodrive lets you record your driving information on a usb stick and then use this information find out how to lower your driving emissions on... Read more >>

Sustainable Energy Week The European Commission as part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week (23-25 March) will once again run the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign which... Read more >>

ICT taking a stand for Energy Efficiency I recently attended the European Commission’s ICT for Energy Efficiency event in Brussels where 4 associations representing information and... Read more >>

An example for applied Interoperability Hear me talking about the Eye on Earth online tool. This website shows data from thousands of air and water quality stations from across Europe in... Read more >>

Microsoft President International at INSEAD: IT and climate change I've just re-watched this video of Jean-Philippe Courtois talking to INSEAD about the role that IT can play in mitigating climate change, answering... Read more >>

Map my climate New and unique climate site illustrates for the first time in 3D how climate change affects you, your city and your home - and what you can do to... Read more >>

New York Times article on the Dublin Data Centre! As you may have read before on this site, we opened one of the largest data centres in Europe just last year in Dublin. Large-scale facilities such as... Read more >>

Bend the Trend: my two-minute pitch Think industry is the biggest emitter of Co2? Read more >>

eco:Drive by Fiat: becoming a more efficient driver It’s not a new story, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve to be told again! In 2008, Fiat introduced eco:Drive for Fiat Blue&Me powered by... Read more >>

Microsoft helps Volvo improve environment sustainability with unified communications Volvo chose Microsoft technology to help improve the company's collaboration, communication and environmental sustainability efforts.... Read more >>

New models to help understand European forests and climate change Major advances in data availability, together with recent advances in computational modeling and data analysis techniques, are enabling Microsoft... Read more >>

Environment Dashboard The Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX enables midsize businesses to easily track their environmental impact and energy... Read more >>

Somniloquy Scientists from Microsoft Research in the United Kingdom and the United States and University of California have developed a prototype that allows... Read more >>

Microsoft at COP15 Copenhagen has succeeded as Kyoto did to bring the world’s attention to issue of climate change. Read more >>

Microsoft Helps Businesses Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Costs The Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX enables midsize businesses to easily track their environmental impact and energy... Read more >>

Bend the Trend Join our partner – EEA – and  help build a community showing how we can IMPACT and CONTRIBUTE to addressing Climate Change!! Read more >>

Contributing to a “Better Climate” through Cloud Technology With Eye On Earth providing near to real-time information on Water and Air quality, encouraging two-way collaboration with citizens, Environmental... Read more >>

Environmental Atlas of Europe The European Environment Agency and Microsoft launched their latest project this month - the Environmental Atlas of Europe (Atlas) at the United... Read more >>

'Sleep Talking' PC’s Save Energy and Money A group of scientists from Microsoft Research in the United Kingdom and the United States and University of California have developed a prototype that... Read more >>

An insider’s take on the Dublin Data Centre: an environmental benchmark We were very proud to announce the grand opening of our Dublin data centre last month. This state of the art facility helps to improve cloud computing... Read more >>

Kiwigrid tames your household energy consumption There’s a new technology coming into your home. But unlike many, this one should save you money. Read more >>

Low carbon: Public-private partnerships take up the challenge Big challenges can encourage big solutions, and at the end of last year there was no challenge bigger than Europe’s response to the economic turmoil... Read more >>

Smart software improves environmental forecasting Environmental scientists face many challenges in monitoring and understanding our planet’s changing climate. Read more >>

Computing the energy problem In May 2009, a Brussels seminar examined the potential of computers to save energy – and the obstacles to realising that potential. Read more >>

Life support for the planet: Trees and climate change Software tools that help researchers to study the role of forests in climate change could make it easier to understand a wide variety of natural and... Read more >>

Keep it cool: the greening of Microsoft’s data centers Microsoft’s first European “mega data centre”, which opened recently on the western outskirts of Dublin, uses 50 per cent less energy than a... Read more >>

The marriage of maths and ecology A new research group in Paris aims to use optimisation theory to find answers to the challenges of ensuring an efficient and sustainable future. Read more >>

Partnering to Enable European Citizens to Monitor Climate Change Earlier this week Microsoft joined with the European Environment Agency to launch a compelling example of how Microsoft’s cloud computing technology... Read more >>

Europeans rate the air quality using the internet Through Eye on Earth, a repository for geographical environmental information created by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft,... Read more >>

Eye on Earth Project Demo Prof. Jacqueline McGlade at EEA, Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist at Microsoft Corp and Ludo de Bock, Senior Director EU and NATO,... Read more >>

Europeans rate water quality of beaches , lakes and rivers using the Internet Eye on Earth is a partnership created by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft that allows Europeans to understand and rate the quality... Read more >>

Eye on Earth Project Demo Prof. Jacqueline McGlade at EEA, Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist at Microsoft Corp and Ludo de Bock, Senior Director EU and NATO,... Read more >>

Ready to contribute to a “Better Climate”? While living in a world of easily available mass market technology, it always strikes me how little we do with it in an interactive way to create... Read more >>

Environmental Atlas of Europe Atlas, an online portal, uses the intuitive interface of Bing Maps to allow people to view stories about the impact of climate change across Europe. Read more >>

Meeting sustainability requirements in Microsoft Data Centers in Europe  We at Microsoft are delighted to see the opening of the first "mega data center" here in Europe. The Dublin Data Center is part of Microsoft’s... Read more >>

Technology Is Enabling a Green Business Revolution in Europe This week I have been lucky to be one of a handful of business executives speaking at the European Union’s Green Week conference in Brussels.  Read more >>

Eye on Earth - Waterwatch Eye on Earth allows governments, policymakers and individuals to compare the cleanliness of bathing water from sites across 27 European countries,... Read more >>

Greening the Dublin data center The internet is developing at a tremendous pace as more businesses and peopleworldwide gain access to an ever greater range of online services... Read more >>

A new in-car software application helps drivers reduce CO2 emissions   Car Manufacturers have made tremendous progress in reducing vehicle emissions. Today’s cars create far less pollution and emit far less carbon... Read more >>

Putting computer science to work on biodiversity As concerns about global warming grow, scientists are turning to sophisticated computational models to better understand and ultimately predict the... Read more >>

Green ICT: the industry must lead the way The European Commission has called on national governments and companies to apply information and communications technology (ICT) solutions to improve... Read more >>

More intelligence on the streets We are all thinking more carefully about our impact on the environment, and this applies to one of the biggest sources of CO2 emissions in particular... Read more >>

Small cameras that not only see, they watch! Small computing devices, such as enhanced cameras, are becoming smarter and more capable: not only do they record visual input (video) but they are... Read more >>

‘Water Watch’ makes a splash with EU bathers The European Environment Agency is pleased with users’ responses to its water quality site and plans to expand environmental features in the coming... Read more >>

Saving energy with home automation As computers become more prevalent in our offices and homes, not only as PCs but also in media and entertainment devices and embedded in appliances,... Read more >>

Managing your household energy use For most consumers, the amount of energy that each electrical appliance in a household consumes is hidden. Read more >>

What a GIG! One of the gigs at this year's Roskilde Festival, the largest music festival in Europe, didn't take place on the stage but in the trash. Microsoft... Read more >>

Collecting data on the environment European Environment Agency and Microsoft Eye on Earth Observatory bring Europaan beach quality into sharp focus Read more >>

Model your own climate Few research issues are as significant as trying to work out how climate change might affect the environment. Unlike many scientific experiments, this... Read more >>