GREEN IT

“GreenIT is an Australian-wide ICT industry body that is empowering the community through awareness and knowledge to adopt environmentally sustainable business practices.”

We work with ICT Professionals across all levels of management and clients of ICT services to address today’s sustainability challenges and identify solutions for a better tomorrow. Our goal is to drive nationwide change in technology, processes and people by providing credible, unbiased information and through direct engagement with a range of stakeholders including the IT industry, government and NGOs.
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TOWARDS GREEN ICT STRATEGIES PDF Print E-mail
Industry - Government

This survey analyses 92 government programmes and business initiatives across 22 OECD countries plus the European Commission.

Fifty of these have been introduced by governments and the remaining 42 have been developed by business associations, mostly international. Over two-thirds of these focus on improving performance in the ICT industry.

Only one third focus on using ICTs across the economy and society in areas where there is major potential to dramatically improve performance, for example in "smart" urban, transport and power distribution systems, despite the fact that this is where ICT have the greatest potential to improve environmental performance.

Government programmes cover the domains of R&D, ICT diffusion, and skills and awareness, with the key programs being:

Increasing Green ICT diffusion and ICT applications:

Promoting environmental-related ICT skills and awareness

 

- Stimulating R&D and innovation: R&D programmes

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CA Green IT Wed Site PDF Print E-mail
General Sites, Articles and Whitepapers

Although this is an IT vendor site (Computer Associates), it contains useful generic information on a variety of topics ranging from the role of infrastructure management software to implications for software solution to greening the data centre:

http://www.ca.com/us/green-it.aspx#overview

For starters why not check out the latter article (follow More Information > Greening the Data Centre).


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Environmental Science Course PDF Print E-mail
General Sites, Articles and Whitepapers

Browse through the various components of the Environmental Science Course at Kennesaw State University to study a large range of environmental topics, including climate change, at:

http://esa21.kennesaw.edu/

Check out the article in Pod > Air > Atmosphere for example.


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Nature - Climate Change PDF Print E-mail
General Sites, Articles and Whitepapers

Nature has a huge collection of articles on their site where the science behind the various climate change topics and issues is explored and explained.  Just a word of warning, this site is so large and interesting for those with a scientific bent that it's easy to get lost in here:

http://www.nature.com/climate/index.html


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Life Cycle Assessment Tool PDF Print E-mail
Life Cycle - Generic

Useful assessment tool from Redemtech to evaluate your IT lifecycle management approach with regard to sustainability:

http://www.redemtech.com/assessment/


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