In the fall of 2018, the University of California tasked a team of researchers with identifying projects from which it could confidently purchase carbon offsets that would reliably cancel out greenhouse gas emissions across its campuses. They found next to nothing. The findings helped prompt the entire university system to radically rethink its sustainability plans. …

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For data center operators, options for boosting sustainability include shifting energy sources, upgrading physical infrastructure and hardware, improving and automating workflows, and updating the software that manages data center storage. Hitachi Vantara estimates that emissions attributable to data storage infrastructure can be reduced as much as 96% by using a combination of these approaches. Critics …

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Aside from the whole Elon Musk/Tesla hoopla, there’s a reason why you should care about electric trucks: They’re going to be crucial to transitioning the US, and the world, to planet-friendlier electricity. A truck, the Ford F-150, is the best selling car in the United States. Rule the electric pickup market, the logic goes, and …

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