Green Monk

At IBM's SOA Impact 2008 show in Las Vegas, James Governor argues that if SOA is a means to better alignment between IT and the business, then we should also drive sustainability into the mix.

Sun has just launched OpenEco.org, which it describes as a "new global on-line community that provides free, easy-to-use tools to help participants assess, track, and compare business energy performance, share proven best practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and encourage sustainable innovation."

Blog tackling all the environmental aspects of IT. This week the Monks focus is on the Global Action Plan.

I make no apologies for the blatant traffic whoring, but this woman is the most powerful social object (hence driver of conversations) in the known universe. 21st Century Citizen has the inside skinny on the new overuse of "eco". "Skinny" and "barf-bag" in the same blog post- could there be a connection? What I do know is that if Paris starts espousing green causes I hope we come to praise, not bury her. Either way it will drive up our media stats, whether we're MSM or the endiest end of a Long Long Tail.

According to the release the The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported last month that data centers are consuming up to 1.5 percent of all the electricity generated in the U.S.