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A new tool created by Stanford Design School students to help parents and children use their computer more efficiently. One click of a sleepy moon icon automatically puts the computer in shut down or sleep mode. Still in BETA mode, this tool could help teach responsible behaviors and save electricity at the same time.

There are some surprisingly easy ways to reduce IT costs while improving performance and cutting energy use.

Although a group is developing benchmarks to analyze workstation power consumption, there are some relatively simple tools you can use to set your own benchmarks.

IBM has unveiled a new supercomputer called Hydro-Cluster that uses water to cool down the device and reduce overall energy consumption.

Microsoft is determined to lose a reputation for workload inefficiency, and the some of its story makes for great motherhood and apple pie tale but why was there no menmtion of green issues at its bigges EUropean end user event? A day and a half and the only conversation about greening was at the dinner table....

Steven Sams, IBM Vice President of Global Site & Facilities, is interviewed, in which he describes an energy crunch facing IT data centers and how IBM's Project Big Green initiative aims to solve it.

As the focus on climate change continues to grow, IBM is launching a corporate-led initiative in which businesses earncash or credits for reducing their energy consumption. As part of the program, IBM Efficiency Certificates, clients are rewarded for lowering the amount of energy needed to run their data centers.

Worldwide, Internet computers directly pollute the equivalent of 22 million cars. And the Infrastructure powering the Internet contributes more carbon emissions that the entire Aviation Industry.

Google has unveiled a series of new environmentally-friendly initiatives including the installation of solar panels on the roof of its Mountain View, CA headquarters. This solar installation, the largest US corporate solar installation to date, will generate an electrical output that is enough to supply an estimated 1,000 average California homes.

IBM has announced plans to consolidate its data center from 3,900 computer servers onto about 30 System z mainframes. The initiative is part of Project Big Green, a broad commitment that IBM announced in May to sharply reduce data center energy consumption for IBM and its clients. According to IBM, the new server environment will consume approximately 80 percent less energy than the current set up and the company expects
significant savings over five years in energy, software and system support costs.