Matthew Wheeland

Matthew Wheeland is the managing editor of GreenBiz.com.

Oakland, CA — Matthew Wheeland is the managing editor of GreenBiz.com. He has a long background in environmental journalism and new media, and is a graduate of U.C. Santa Cruz and the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He has previously worked at publications including Sierra Magazine, AlterNet and Greater Good Magazine; his writings on the environment, politics, culture and business have appeared in a wide range of print and online publications.

Sex Toy Company's Green Efforts Fail to Arouse GreenBiz.com
By Matthew Wheeland, March 19, 2010
Adam & Eve, the 'online home for all things erotic,' has pulled back the curtain on its efforts to reduce its environmental impacts, showing off the effective but mundane ways any company can...
Cisco's EnergyWise Additions Make Green a No-Brainer
By Matthew Wheeland, March 17, 2010
Among the many upgrades Cisco announced today to its 'Borderless Networks' plan is EnergyWise Orchestrator, which makes a simple software upgrade the only action thousands of businesses need to...
A Sneak Peek at Designing Electronics for the Environment
By Matthew Wheeland, March 17, 2010
Despite well established practices and technologies on the market, most firms are unaware of the business benefits of desiging electronics with environmental performance in mind. An upcoming...
Greenpeace Loses Round Two in Tiff with Facebook
By Matthew Wheeland, March 09, 2010
After calling out the social network for using electricity generated with coal for its new green data center, it turns out that at least some of Greenpeace's servers are powered by coal as well as...
Your Taco's Footprint: 19 Ingredients that Logged 64,000 Miles GreenBiz.com
By Matthew Wheeland, March 03, 2010
A new project from a California college aims to map how far the various ingredients in your taco-truck lunch have traveled to reach your plate. ...
CloudBlue Takes Responsible E-Waste Management Global
By Matthew Wheeland, March 03, 2010
The company aims to bring transparency and environmental responsibility to end-of-life management, focused especially on global enterprises with complex infrastructures. ...
Is a Bloom Box a Good Investment for Your Company? GreenBiz.com
By Matthew Wheeland, March 01, 2010
The new Bloom Energy Server was touted far and wide last week as a game-changing fuel-cell device. We talked to some of the first owners of 'Bloom Boxes' to find out why they made the $700,000...
eBay, Walmart, Google Among First to Hop on the 'Bloom Box' Bandwagon GreenBiz.com
By Matthew Wheeland, February 25, 2010
At a much-buzzed event yesterday on eBay's campus, Bloom Energy unveiled its Energy Server, fuel cell generators that could change the shape of how companies and municipalities get their energy....
The Smart, Connected Planet is at the Heart of IBM's Pulse 2010
By Matthew Wheeland, February 22, 2010
The kickoff to IBM's third-annual Pulse expo showcased how the company has its eyes on making the world's cities connected, automated and efficient, through hardware and software innovations and...
Can Facebook's Data Center be Green if it Runs on Coal?
By Matthew Wheeland, February 18, 2010
The social network earned cheers aplenty for its recently announced energy-efficient data center, some of which are turning to jeers now that it turns out its electricity will primarily be...

Facebook Status Update: We're Opening a Green Data Center
By Matthew Wheeland, January 26, 2010
The social networking giant is building its first-ever company owned data center in Oregon, aiming for green with LEED Gold certification and a PUE of 1.15. ...
The State of Green IT
By Matthew Wheeland, July 07, 2009
John Lamb, an IT architect with IBM and the author of "The Greening of IT," explains the basics of optimizing IT systems, simple steps for getting started, and the many incentives that...
Green IT Gaining in Importance Globally: Report
By Matthew Wheeland, May 27, 2009
Symantec's first annual Worldwide Green IT Report assesses the state of energy-efficient and environmentally friendly computing around the globe and finds significant progress being made on many...
Dell Spells Out E-Waste Policy: If It's Broken, Don't Export It
By Matthew Wheeland, May 12, 2009
Casting a broad net to keep as much potentially toxic electronic waste out of developing countries, Dell today laid out its company-wide policy and challenged other IT firms and legislators to...
Power Management Summit Shows How Companies Save Millions
By Matthew Wheeland, March 30, 2009
An online meeting for professionals in IT, sustainability, facility management and more outlined the easy ways that companies are managing their PC fleets to save millions in energy costs and...
Eco-Patents Commons Grows with Addition of Ricoh, Taisei GreenBiz.com
By Matthew Wheeland, March 23, 2009
The addition of patents from the printer and office products company Ricoh and engineering firm Taisei Corporation, as well as newly released patents from DuPont are the latest additions to the...
Mid-Sized Businesses are Buying In to Green IT: Report
By Matthew Wheeland, March 11, 2009
A new white paper from IBM and Info-Tech Research finds that companies are taking on a host of green IT practices to achieve both cost-saving and footprint-reduction goals. ...
AFCOM's Five Predictions for Data Centers Bode Well for Green
By Matthew Wheeland, March 10, 2009
At the Data Center World conference, AFCOM and the Data Center Institute revisited a list of five IT predictions from 2006, finding that the economy has led to slowdowns in some areas, but...
HP, Microsoft Reach Out to Africa with IT
By Matthew Wheeland, February 17, 2009
Hewlett-Packard yesterday unveiled results of the first phase of a project to take on e-waste in Africa, while Microsoft and the U.N. Environment Programme teamed up to use IT to address some of...
Intel, Microsoft, SAP and Others Unveil Lean, Green IT Toolbox
By Matthew Wheeland, February 11, 2009
In partnership with Ireland's Innovation Value Institute, the companies are part of a consortium that have developed a framework for helping streamline an enterprise's IT department for business...

Where Does Green IT Fit in Your Firm's Priority List?
By Matthew Wheeland, February 11, 2010
Results from a survey of IT professionals around the world finds that, despite all the talk about green IT and saving costs, it's still primarily a pragmatic world out. ...
Can IT Solve the World's Problems? The State of Green Business Forum 2010 GreenBiz.com
By Matthew Wheeland, February 05, 2010
At the end of yesterday's Forum, a panel representing the world's largest IT companies talked about how to successfully apply technology to environmental challenges. ...
IBM Brings Data Center of Tomorrow to the 'World of Tomorrow'
By Matthew Wheeland, January 29, 2010
A new exhibit opened by IBM in the Disney World's Epcot Center highlights IBM's Smarter Planet initiative, while also showcasing -- and being powered by -- an innovative modular data center. ...
Apple's new iPad is Deep Green, but a Planet-Saver? Nope. GreenBiz.com
By Matthew Wheeland, January 27, 2010
Apple's long, long, long-awaited new tablet computer has finally been released to the wild, and while the iPad is a pretty nifty looking machine, it's unlikely to be a game-changer for the planet...
Will Apple's Tablet Save the Earth? Don't Hold Your Breath
By Matthew Wheeland, January 25, 2010
The end-all, be-all of technology that may or may not be launched on Wednesday may or may not end up being a great gadget, but it won't solve IT's environmental impacts. ...
How to Find the Greenest E-Waste Recycler
By Matthew Wheeland, January 20, 2010
A recent seminar from the EPA offered a primer for small business and local governments on how to avoid the pitfalls of e-waste recycling, but the lessons offered apply to any organization that's...
Apple to Take a Bite Out of Home Energy Use?
By Matthew Wheeland, January 15, 2010
A new patent filed by Apple Computer suggests that the Cupertino computer giant aims to join Google and Microsoft in measuring, managing and reducing energy use in the home and office. ...
Will 2010 Be the Year Green IT 2.0 Breaks Out?
By Matthew Wheeland, January 13, 2010
The first two weeks of the new decade have found widespread government, industry and academic support for applying IT's power to the greening business operations -- while also cutting the power...
CES's 2010 Goal: Greener than Ever
By Matthew Wheeland, January 05, 2010
Despite taking a beating from the economic crunch, the gargantuan Consumer Electronics Show plans to showcase green technologies, as well as the many ways the event itself is reducing its...
Will Government Have to Step In to Make IT Green?
By Matthew Wheeland, November 25, 2009
With adoption of voluntary best practices lagging in the U.K. and Europe, some industry watchers think new laws and regulations are what's needed to drive laggards to green IT. ...

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Re-Designing the Environmental Challenge: State of Green Business Forum 2010 GreenBiz.com
By Matthew Wheeland, February 04, 2010
In a lightning-paced presentation, serial innovator Saul Griffith laid out the human and global scope of the climate crisis, as well as where solutions will -- and won't -- come from. ...
Taking the Pulse: State of Green Business Forum 2010 GreenBiz.com
By Matthew Wheeland, February 04, 2010
The opening of the first of two day-long events digging in deep to the findings of the State of Green Business report took stock of just how far we've come in reducing corporate impacts. ...
E-Waste Pops Back Onto the Nation's Radar
By Matthew Wheeland, November 18, 2009
The past week has been a busy one for electronic waste and its foes, as legislation to require collection and recycling of old electronics takes a hit, even as international experts see the...

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