How to Green IT
Consumers
- Use Power management on your PC
- Switch from CRT to LCD
- Use a laptop instead of a desktop
- Use hibernate/sleepmode instead of the screensaver
- Select an 'Energy star' labeled computer
- Send your redundant computer to a recycling company
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Business
- Use natural cooling, allow airflow, stirling cooling
- Use less devices
- Use an efficient power supply
- Virtualize here
- Manage your data storage here
Links
Green Computing Impact organizationFormed by a group of Global-minded IT executives, Green Computing Impact Organization (GCIO) was created to be an active participant in transforming the IT community from an environmental liability to an Earth conscious example of responsibility.
Climate Savers Computing
Started by Google and Intel in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations.
Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool
EPEAT is a system to help purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on their environmental attributes.
The Green Grid
The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.
SPECPower
SPECpower is the first industry-standard SPEC benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of volume server class computers. With SPECpower, SPEC is defining server power measurement standards in the same way we have done for performance.
Green Computing Summit
Building on the success of the inaugural Green Computing Summit held in December 2007, this two-part series held May 20th and December 2nd will address how public sector IT managers, procurement officials, program managers and public sector professionals can transform their IT and data center operations into more environmentally-conscious yet efficient solutions.
SuperMicro green servers
Optimized system architecture created to take advantage of Supermicro’s power saving technology to produce optimal cooling at all application levels
EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres
Green IT foundation
Cisco tutorials
http://www.us.logicalis.com/green/
IBM presentation on Green IT
Gartner presentation on green IT
Top 10 reasons to go Green IT
EPA
Dell
Tools
flovent datacenter airflow modellingVerdiem
Datacenter Carbon Calculator
Thin Clients
NcomputingWyse
Thin Client Lab
Server based IT
2X
Consultancy areas
- Information and advise on how to promote energy conscious behaviour in the workplace
- Adjusting your hardware settings for better efficiency
- Tuning the cooling for your datacenter
- Replacing low efficency hardware with high efficiency hardware
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