A few years ago, we had the local electric company do a home energy audit. Our 19th-century house was hard to heat, and as we suspected, the inspector found we didn't have enough insulation. But our most cost-effective change turned out to be the purchase of a new refrigerator. You can't manage what you don't measure. Once you start looking at the right data, the results can lead you to solutions you hadn't imagined.

CIOs are ignoring the potential of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) software to help cut their carbon emissions, according to Ovum analysts.

ARN has joined forces with Computers Off Australia to bring you an energy savings calculator that shows what you can do in the office to reduce your power consumption and save money.

A locally developed carbon auction system that claims to cut through much of the complexity of government legislation has received backing from Microsoft to be sold globally.