On 12th November, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) released their 70-page Green IT ebook summarising the key issues surrounding Green IT in the IT industry.  Although the eBook provides tips and outlines of quick wins, it mainly focuses on case studies of AIIA members that have implement some form of Green IT and is targeted at IT businesses between 10-100 seats.

Examples of the case studies, include:

• Intel - Sustainable Program Office with a focus on energy consumption reduction and data centre efficiency
• Toyota - Green IT Roadmap across three main Victorian sites
• Corporate Express - design and development of a "highly efficient" data centre with a 70-80% power/space/cooling reduction
• Connex - carbon management system for NGERs compliance and business efficiency improvements
• Dell - implementation of 1E desktop management software to achieve US$1.8 in savings per annum across 50,000 PCs

References

AIIA, Green IT eBook, November 2009

The development of Carbon Emissions Management Software (CEMS) has hit the growth curve across developed nations, where five years ago a business may have struggled to find a handful to help them manage their corporate greenhouse gas emissions.

Connection Research, an Australian-based environmental research company released a market research report in November 2009, focussing on where this software development surge came from and why.

According to their research, pressures such as:

• regulators
• customers and consumers
• shareholders
• employees
• energy costs
• the global community

have all worked together to create the increase in need for CEMS.

With over sixty CEMS products listed in their database there is a unique assortment of business backgrounds ranging from ERP, to BI to traditional software vendors. Product functionality also varies from consumer based hardware-software combinations to commercial data warehouse-based applications.

However even with the surge in requirements and development presently which they expect to keep increasing over "the next 2-3 years", Connection Research believe there will eventually be a natural acquisition and attrition due to "competitive market forces".

References

Connection Research, Carbon Emissions Management Software - A New Global Industry, November 2009.

If you haven't heard of it before, the One Million Women campaign is an Australian initiative encouraging the sign-up of one million women to change activities in their lives and households, that affect climate change.  The campaign is supported by major Australian businesses including Telstra, BP, Wolf Blass and The Climate Institute.

The campaign itself involves a website on which women register and then commit to activities to change environmental issues.   They have developed an attractive and easy to use system where you select from a range of activities, and then track your progress against them at intervals:

The 1 Million Women campaign will be running a series of forums in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in November and December, with a range f guest presenters including:

• Bernie Hobbs, ABC Science Presenter
• Lisa Corbyn, Director-General, NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change
• The Hon. Anna Bligh, Premier of Queensland
• Senator Penny Wong, Federal Minister for Climate Change and Water

What does your organization do with its old computers and other electronic equipment when it doesn't want them any more? The EPA says it can account for only 20% of electronics waste in the US.

Aberdeen is currently undertaking research on what companies do with ewaste. For each respondent, they will provide a copy of the results report.

Any questions, refer to Carol Baroudi from Aberdeen

Click here to participate & get your copy of the results