IBM helps the world go cradle to cradle

A quick search of EcoGeek's archives shows that IBM has never been shy about its environmental leadership. But now it's taking this to a new level.

Instead of just working on greening its business and products, IBM is creating a massive consulting service to help others down the path.

IBM is calling the new business unit "IBM Environmental Product Lifecycle Management," but I'm going to call it the IBM Big Green Evangelical Party. The service covers pretty much everything a major corporation could want to green up its operations including:

• Making sure that products meet environmental and safety regulations.
• Designing products so that they're easy to refurbish and reuse or disassemble and recycle.
• Assessing lifecycles and reducing carbon footprints including shipping, use, and recycling.
• Choosing materials that are renewable, recyclable and non-toxic.
• Designing packaging.
• Reducing the time it takes to get eco-friendly products from the drawing board to market.

Of course, if I was any manufacturing company in the world, I'd be calling up IBM right now to get on the waiting list.

But all I make is blog posts, and while I'm sure I could be more efficient...I don't really have to worry too much about hazardous substances.