GReen IT Report

Green and Beyond blogs where our developerWorks bloggers capture their thoughts on Green IT, technology and their roles in helping the planet.

Check out IBM's newest Green-themed blog. IBM Distinguished Engineer Jim Fletcher blogs about Green computing and what it means to techies.

• Voltaic System's Jeff Crystal on solar backpacks and green supply chains: Jeff Crystal talks about making cool solar products at Voltaic Systems and working on an efficient, green supply chain.
• What are student's saying?: 8 of 10 students want universities to revamp traditional learning environments while over 90 % want to join or start a Green Advocacy group. See more
• Building a greener IT department: Get some ideas that can help any IT department lessen its impact on the environment.

• Three ways to recycle commodity hardware with Linux: Creating Linux appliances with spare parts. Repurposing ..step by step.
• Reduce Linux power consumption, Part 1: The CPUfreq subsystem: Meet all the power-efficiency tuning components for Linux on System x
• Reduce Linux power consumption, Part 2: General and governor-specific settings: Learn what you can set and how the settings control power usage

Simply put, water is essential to all forms of known life. We drink it, bathe in it, fish in it, grow our crops with it, and generate power from it. It covers two-thirds of the surface of the earth and comprises 75 percent of the human body.

This report details the debilitating lack of data and analysis that currently plagues global water management. It explores the complex interactions between water and the many other systems the world relies on, such as commerce, food, and energy. And it offers a variety of actionable and innovative solutions that businesses, governments, and individuals can implement with technologies and techniques.

• Breathing Earth: Welcome to Breathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates
• Footprint Calculator: The Ecological Footprint has emerged as the world’s premier measure of humanity’s demand on nature.
• Earth Day: Earth Day -- April 22 -- each year marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
• Earth Hour: Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming.
• Water Based Eyeglasses: Water based eyeglasses for the masses - imagine the possibilities
• Green IT ers: GreenITers is a community of people who believe that IT will play a prime role in helping redefine the world we are living in.
• Solving everyday problems with African inguenity: Profiled as part of Time Magazine’s “50 Best Sites for 2008″ even better in 2009 follow the blog to learn simple ideas bringing great change.

• Five Reasons Retailers Go Green: Social responsibility and "going green" are not disconnected from building customer loyalty, improving revenue and managing costs.
• Greening Government: IBM Consulting Offering Helps Public Officials Reduce Energy and Water Use, Waste, Environmental Impact
• Turning Salt into Water: IBM has unveiled a novel membrane technology that stands to alleviate the growing shortage of drinkable water worldwide