General best practices for Green IT implementations
Recently the World Wildlife Fund has developed a number of papers on ICT and it's impact on the environment. HP joined WWF on a couple of these initiatives including the development of the Sustainable Innovation Zone (SIZ), which HP actually launched internal to their own organisation in September 2007.
Computers Off Australia is a new campaign that launched on 30th June 2008, aimed at educating consumers and businesses on saving carbon dioxide emissions generated from latent energy use - for example from the thousands of PCs that are left on overnight or with no power management configuration.
In December 2007 SPEC, an industry standards and benchmarking organisation, released the first standard for measuring and reporting power consumption of servers...
In a survey of 810 manufacturing and construction companies, 26% believe the highest risk from climate change is that of the market, such as loss of competitiveness...
Sun Microsystems are currently promoting 3 kits for eco-IT responsibility...
