Eco-Responsibility as the new black

Thu May 25 01:32:23 -0700 2006
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Companies are touting their "green" in an effort gain customers and raise awareness of their eco-responsible ways. AMD got into the act earlier this month with billboards launching in Times Square and Silicon Valley that feature a ticker of cost savings in data centers using the Sunnyvale-based chipmakers Opteron processor. And non-tech companies like Wal-mart are following suit by announcing strategies to save electricity and cut $300 million in fuel costs per year from their budget.

On his way to the Greentech Innovation Network conference in San Francisco Sun Microsystems founder and now Kleiner Perkins partner Bill Joy says to bet on green technology as the next big thing, commenting to BusinessWeek that ["Even] the garbage stream has a high value."
A whole roundup of the trend toward green-ness was featured last week in a special section in the NYTimes.