Great idea, 80% of revenue generated via sponsored advertising is donated to the WWF forest conservation programme. I can't help but think if it were powered by Google rather than Bing and Yahoo the donated revenue would be double what it is today (£107,825K). Come on Google, get involved!
Monday, 20 December 2010
10 Greentech Predictions for 2011
Yep, it’s that time of year again: get ready for the flurry of end-of-the-year market prediction posts. While last year, I laid out what I thought would be the 5 Biggest Hurdles for Greentech in 2010, this year Jeff St. John makes 9 predictions (plus 1 that I add in) about what the greentech sector will look like in 2011. Read more....
Monday, 1 November 2010
Sunday, 31 October 2010
Energy Hungry Zombie & Ghost Servers
Zombie and Ghost servers are a real threat to organizations everywhere – they consume energy and resources that could be used more effectively to drive business. Zombie servers masquerade as useful and ghost servers are typically just forgotten. 1E helps organizations measure and remove IT inefficiencies like zombie and ghost servers reducing unnecessary energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
The IT sector has reduced equipment emissions by 32m tonnes worldwide since 2007
A recent study has concluded that the IT sector has reduced annual CO2 emissions associated with IT equipment by more than 32 million metric tons worldwide since 2007.
The report, which is here, was conducted by Natural Logic to assess the progress of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative’s (CSCI). The organisation was set up in 2007 and is led by CSC, Dell, Google Inc., HP, Intel, Microsoft and the World Wildlife Fund, but now has a total of 645 members. It’s aim is to reduce the environmental impact of IT equipment through energy efficiency, with a goal of reducing annual CO2 emissions from the IT sector by 54 million metric tons by June 2011.
The research shows that annual CO2 emissions from IT equipment have decreased by 32 million to 36 million metric tons worldwide since 2007 and is on target to achieve the CSCI’s reduction goal by the end of its 2010 fiscal year in June 2011. The report puts the success down to the CSCI’s efforts to promote the adoption of power management, new IT efficiency standards and the use of higher-efficiency computing equipment.
The CSCI has said that in the future it will expand its focus to include commercial and home networking equipment, helped by new board members Cisco, Emerson Network Power and Juniper Networks. The organisation will set new energy efficiency criteria for networking technologies and network devices will be included in the organisation’s environmental targets, with the goal of reducing annual CO2 emissions by an additional 38 million metric tons by 2015.
There’s an interesting comment in the conclusion that in fact the use of PC power management has been much lower than the organisation estimated when it set its goals; “CSCI’s original estimate was based on an assumption that the use of power management features on desktops and notebooks would be in the range of 90% by the end of the 2010 program year, but the latest research shows it is only around 10% (22% at the most)”. So it looks like there will be a particular effort by these companies to push power management in the coming months.
© The Green IT Review (www.thegreenitreport.com)
Thursday, 26 August 2010
“Power IT Down Day” scheduled for Friday, August 27th, 2010 – How 1E takes a good idea even further
Promoted by partners such as Intel, HP, and Citrix, “Power IT Down Day” is scheduled for Friday, August 27th, 2010. Per the web site, powering your computer down for a single day can help save tens of thousands of costly kilowatt hours.
Powering down a computer for a single day is a great way to promote a concept that is clearly important, and it’s an ongoing, worldwide issue that 1E (Green IT solutions provider) addresses in a more complete manner. The data 1E discovered in their 2009 PC Energy Report is staggering: “... if all the world’s 1 billion PC’s were powered down for just one night – it would save enough energy to light up New York City’s Empire State Building – inside and out – for more than 30 years.” 1E has pioneered the technology to make IT more efficient by providing tools to “power down” every day of the year instead of just one. Consider the significant impact that can be realized by implementing the “power down” concept all year long! Read more about these solution here; NightWatchman, NightWatchman Server Edition, and WakeUp.
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
mobile phone charged by pedal-power
The latest green gadget; charge your phone while cycling with the ‘Bicycle Charger Kit’ from Nokia. 
The phone mount is rubberised to minimise vibrations and the holder comes with a transparent bag to protect it from the elements. It’s compatible with all Nokia phones that have a 2mm charging interface. The charger kicks in when the bicycle reaches 6 km/h and stops when your speed reaches 50 km/h. The total charging time varies, but Nokia gives the example that with 20 minutes of cycling at 10 km/h you can power up a Nokia 1202 for 1 hour of talk time or 74 hours of standby time.
This would be an ideal piece of kit for long distance, camping, cyclists. Or for using your GPS for navigation which invariably drains the battery quite quickly. More info is available here.
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