Inspite of the hiring being slowed down by recession, green-collar jobs are growing double than that of traditional jobs. Clean Energy Economy study which is billed as the U.S.’s first state-by-state survey of green-collar jobs states that Green-collar hiring took a hit during the current recession and may accelerate beyond its 1998-2007 growth rate of […]

Today is a video day. NASCIO, community organization representing all state CIOs, have this good video urging member states to adopt Green IT.
This is well timed to benefit from Obama’s renewable energy intiative.

Enjoy this teaser video from meettheboss.tv. Alain Benoist is a CTO of Societe Generale’

Full video is available on funny sounding website - meettheboss.tv. Apparently they are using teaser YouTube video to increase site registration.
To see full video you need to sign up and to sign up one has to cross both Nile and Sahara!

The 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference featured a Green Jobs Expo showcasing the many pathways to green jobs and careers, which surprisingly didn’t have any of the blue chip IT companies!
It definitely can’t be lack of awareness considering its hype everywhere, so what’s the deal here?
For example companies like HP, IBM, Cisco and […]

Continuing with our effort to share good quality video with our readers. We found this interview of James Governor by Adam Bomb very fascinating. Lot of hype surrounding Green IT is related to loaded buzz words. James clear message related to cost savings and applying common sense makes great sense.
Watch it:

Takeaway for executives is to […]

This is an interesting video. Executives from different companies were being asked the same question and their reply ranged from “Definitely happening” to “Total hype”. We think reality is somewhere in between.

What do you think? Is your company planning to allocate budget for green computing?

Community site Green Grid is rated by New York Times as one of the sites IT professionals should put on their must visit list. Rising popularity of Green Grid site shows that Green IT is a cost management initiative. Initiative has less to do with oil price dynamics.
With the economy in shambles and energy prices […]

US President-elect Barack Obama has promised massive economic stimulus package to revive flagging economy. Most of this money will go into green jobs and is expected to generate close to 2 million new jobs.
This will have clear impact on IT industry. No wonder we see all IT services companies flaunting green credentials on their website […]

Nokia is starting 2009 with a big campaign around generating the need to recycle old handsets. Using multiple marketing tools, company plans to take this cause to end users. Recycle initiatives, named Take Back, is aimed to reduce e-waste and to help reduce environmental impact of Nokia’s widely used cell phone handsets. From Nokia […]

It’s not common to hear cost reduction initiatives and green IT go hand in hand. Infact that’s exactly what energy efficient practices, as promoted by Green IT, lead to - sustainable cost savings.
Outlook Business magazine predicts Green IT to be one of the trends to  pick up in 2009:
Research shows tht almost 80% of a […]