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Green IT: Why Mid-size Companies Are Investing Now

This research from IBM and Info-Tech Research looks at adoption rates of virtualization, power management, asset management and a host of other green IT practices in more than a thousand medium-sized companies. Read More

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Clean Energy Trends 2009

How is clean energy technology faring amid the countervailing forces of Obama stimulus and economic meltdown? The seventh annual Clean Energy Trends report details the growth and challenges of the sector -- and provides experts' take on five key trends. Read More

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Five Ways to Reduce Data Center Power Consumption

This white paper from the Green Grid outlines the ways that reducing energy use at the point of consumption (the server) provides benefits at all other levels by reducing load on power and cooling facilities which in turn reduces their own energy use. Read More

Think You Know Green IT? Take This Pop Quiz and Find Out

Think you're up to speed on Green IT and green computing? Here's a chance to test just how much you really know. Answer the following ten questions and then rate yourself from Know-Nothing to Maven. Read More

Windvertising Enables Companies to Put Ads on Turbine Blades

Are you looking for a creative way to advertise your business? How about using wind turbine blades to send your message? That may be possible thanks to a company called WePOWER, which earlier this week launched its Windvertising media platform. Read More

Sun Microsystems Opens a New Green Datacenter

Sun Microsystems cut the ribbon on its largest green IT project, a revamped and consolidated datacenter that is expected to slash electricity costs by $1 million a year, reduce CO2 emissions by 11,000 metric tons annually, shrink the company's carbon footprint by 6 percent and save 675,000 gallons of water each year. Read More

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Defining, Estimating and Forecasting the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Industries in the U.S. and Colorado

This report estimates and forecasts the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries for the U.S. and Colorado, including definition, current size and composition and expected growth under three policy scenarios. Read More

Air New Zealand Completes Biofuel Test

The airline conducted a two-hour flight using conventional jet fuel mixed with fuel based on the jatropha plant. Read More

Will Your Data Center Have to Pay a Carbon Tax?

One of the centerpieces of President-elect Obama's energey plan is a cap-and-trade program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050. That means that enterprise may eventually have a cap put on the amount of greenhouse gases they emit, and would have to pay if they wanted to exceed those emissions. Would that mean you'll have to pay what amounts to a carbon tax for an inefficient data center? Read More

Japan's Top 8 Emerging Green IT Technologies

The country's leading tech companies showcased their innovations and green strategies at the recent CEATEC electronics show. Read More