AT&T has a simple six step check for green computing

Use an LCD instead of a CRT;
Consider a laptop;
Kill the screen saver;
Use your computer’s sleep function;
Buy Energy Star compliant machines;
Recycle your old system.

Note: Windows Vista use can be detrimental to your productivity. Stick to Windows XP

- Apple revamped Mini product line with greener core - Apple claims the computer is super-efficient, using 45 percent less power at idle than its predecessor.
- Recently concluded DataWorld conference effectively replaced Green IT with Energy Efficiency. All about cost savings!
- Green Grid - companies are working to develop metric to measure datacenter efficiency. Green […]

While we are talking about numbers. Here is a random sprinkling of numbers I collected from different surveys.
The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), a nonprofit professional society of over 9,500 members, issued a survey to its members to determine the need for Green Jobs.
Survey Results:
* 41% of the energy professionals who were surveyed plan […]

Forrestor Research, Inc. has introduced green IT baseline calculator , online tool to help IT professionals calculate their green IT baseline.
Doug Washburn explains how this baseline calculator can help in quantifying Green IT implementation practice:

* Guide your greening efforts with solid data. Avoid guessing about what to green first by […]

Do Dell’s products rightfully deserved to be called green? And are they the only champion of computer industry whose mantra once used to be build more powerful computers/servers and gorge up hordes of power. So let’s see.
One of Dell’s big pushes was to build laptops whose displays used LED backlights. LEDs make a laptop more […]

I was reading HP CEO Michael Hurd’s biographical piece on Fortune magazine and it struck me how cost conscious HP management is. Article attributes this culture to Hurd’s mid-western background.
In that context I read this announcement by HP that the two leading visual effects companies have gone with HP blade server to drive […]