Green information technology is frequently used to describe environmentally sound computing practices. This includes everything from energy-efficient data centers to recycling old or unusable electronics. Making data centers more environmentally friendly has been of considerable importance, as federal data centers account for 1.5 percent of total energy consumption in the United States. The Obama administration is pushing green government practices like distributing memos electronically instead of by paper and teleworking when feasible. Some agencies are embracing these changes more readily than others.
Military takes aim at excessive fuel consumption
February 01, 2012
On Tuesday, the Pentagon detailed $18 million worth of new projects focused primarily on managing battlefield heating and air conditioning systems to reduce energy consumption. ...
Green IT News & Info from Government Agencies
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Green IT Articles from GovExec
Ramping Down - - GovExec. com
November 23, 2011
| Adam Stone
The Energy Department taps outside assessment of long-range IT needs to decide which data centers to close.
Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. In the article Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices, San Murugesan defines the field of green computing as "the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems—efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment. " The goals of green computing are similar to green chemistry; reduce the use of hazardous materials, maximize energy...
Green IT Stories from Tech News Sites
In Search of an Energy Yardstick
January 29, 2012
| CIO.com - News
We take a comprehensive look at the new green-IT metrics for measuring data center efficiency and productivity from The Green Grid and other industry groups. Insider,...
Secret to Facebook's green data center?
November 18, 2011
| CNET News.com
Water misters Facebook says its Prineville, Ore., data center received gold-level LEED green-building certification due to an elaborate evaporative cooling system that taps...
2011 Top Green- IT Vendors
October 23, 2011
| CIO.com - News
These companies completed the same survey as the end user organizations and were judged on the same criteria -- most notably, on their IT departments' efforts to reduce energy consumption ...
In Nest Labs, finally an Apple of home energy
October 25, 2011
| CNET News.com
Nest Labs and its Learning Thermostat bring Silicon Valley's strengths in consumer electronics and software programming to energy, a shift that can go a long way to bringing green technology ...
iPhone's new Micro USB Adapter complies with EU charger standards
October 05, 2011
| Ars Technica - News
The European Commission announced in 2009 that 10 mobile phone producers, including Apple, LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research in Motion, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Texas Instruments, agreed to adopt a standardized charger in order to minimize the'' needless electronic waste ...
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