The State Department is eliminating 21,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually– and looking for more -- as part of its worldwide power and systems management initiative to eliminate power waste across 100 percent of its workstation computers. Projected to save millions annually when fully implemented, the initiative is designed to comply with OMB sustainability and energy management mandates, plus support the Department's Greening Diplomacy Initiative. Currently State has 88,986 desktops at 468 worldwide sites – comprised of domestic facilities, embassies, consulates, and passport agencies. Gerry Caron, Branch Chief, Enterprise Management Systems, Information Resource Management Bureau told AOL Government that being a geographically diverse agency meant the Department faces multiple problems and issues.
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Installations of wind farms with less than 20 megawatts of capacity may rise to a record this year if lawmakers expand a federal tax credit.
Two big wind development projects on Appalachian ridges in Bedford and Clearfield counties have been canceled, and fewer new turbines will be spinning across the nation next year due to the possible end of a federal tax credit program that has driven development.
The world's most efficient solar cells, a new vaccine against chicken cholera and recycling car tyres to make steel are among the five winning inventions at the inaugural Australian Collaborative Innovation Awards.