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OK so first I'll apologise for taking naptime on my blog for the past month+.  I have no excuse other than perceived lack of time - you may send me to the principal for punishment.  Speaking of the 'head', today our illustrious leader, Mr Ballmer, made some announcements on Environmental Sustainability in Microsoft.

First up: we have promised to reduce our emissions 30% per unit of revenue by 2012.  Considering the Prime Minister of Australia could only manage a paltry 5% for the whole of Australia, I'd say our target it pretty <bleep> brilliant.

Second: he encouraged all employees on the things they can do to help meet this target:

• Using IT to improve energy efficiency: check out our newly revised website www.microsoft.com/environment for information on reducing energy consumption using technology
• Accelerating research on Environmental Sustainability:  check out www.research.microsoft.com for our work in this area
• Responsible environmental leadership: the 30% reduction will be achieved through things like building management, reducing air travel, optimising our supply chain, and investing in concentrated programs

Checkout the formal blog post from our E&S Team for more info:  http://blogs.msdn.com/see/archive/2009/03/12/reducing-microsoft-s-carbon-footprint.aspx