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 to retire in the next ten years.

* 72% of energy professionals indicate a heightened shortage of qualified professionals in the energy   efficiency and renewable energy fields in the next five years.

* 70% of energy professionals indicate a need for national and state training for “Green Jobs” to address job shortages that are impairing growth in green industries, such as energy efficient buildings and construction, renewables, electric power, smart grid, energy efficient vehicles and biofuels development.

A different survey, conducted recently by Prasanto Kumar Roy, President, ICT Group, CyberMedia India Ltd. to see how green is corporate sector of the nation today and these are the results

* 43.5% of MNCs ,39.6% of Indian private limited companies and 52% of the PSUs feel Green IT is a reality.

On the definition of Green IT

* 33.2% :Configure desktops to enter the sleep mode when not in use.
* 30.2% :E-waste/computer waste recycling.
* 29.2% :Server consolidation.

On Green standards awareness –

* 51.5% of the respondents knew about the Energy Star.
* 39.9% knew about the ISO14000/ISO14001.
* 32.8% knew about the Climate Saver Computing Initiative.

On rationale for Green IT –

* 78% feel it was to reduce costs.
* 54% felt that it is related to environmental issues.
* 29% said it was for compliance and corporate image building.

* 26.3% had already implemented upgrading or reconfiguring the data center cooling infrastructure for improved efficiency.
* 31.4% had already implemented reduction of server power consumption using thin client architecture.
* 35% said that less than 5 percent of the IT budgets had been provisioned for green.

According to a yet another Green consumer survey by Yahoo-

* 77% of consumers believed themselves to be “green” and
* 57% stated they made a green purchase decision in the past six months.

* Around 23% of consumers were tagged as “deeply committed” greenies by Yahoo and
* Nearly 24% found green to be “trendy”.

Analyzing the above survey results it can be said that “Green IT” is no more just a hype but it sure is happening.

Christopher Mines, senior vice president, Forrester, said that “The early read indicates that a slow macro economy will not slow Green IT efforts and there is a significant opportunity for IT organizations to implement Green IT, which can increase from a worldwide size of half billion dollars to about 5 billion dollars in 2013″.