It was only a matter of time before the venerable IT conference took on a green theme too.

Green IT tops the bill at CeBit 2008 - vnunet.com

"The world's largest trade show for the digital industry provides the right international platform for an issue that affects the whole ICT sector," said Sven-Michael Prüser, vice president at Deutsche Messe.

"We want to show how the application of ICT solutions can save power, and that investing in green IT is an obvious step for anyone interested in reducing energy costs and contributing to climate protection."

At CeBIT Tech Show, a Green Undercurrent - Wired News

In order to bring the spotlight more on the concept of Green IT, the fair is working with the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a group founded in 2007 with the participation of Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Intel Corp., IBM Corp. and others.

Its objectives are to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases caused by the use of computers by 54 million tons annually. Cisco Systems Inc. manager Jan Roschek estimates that the IT sector is responsible for about 2 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions.

Daylight Saving Wastes Energy, Study Says - Wall Street Journal

For decades, conventional wisdom has held that daylight-saving time, which begins March 9, reduces energy use. But a unique situation in Indiana provides evidence challenging that view: Springing forward may actually waste energy.

Al Gore Makes Impassioned Plea to TEDsters - Epicenter - Wired Blogs

After three-and-a-half days of listening to more than 50 speakers give talks on everything from the science of romantic love to unified theories of the universe, Gore told the audience of TEDsters, "We've had these brilliant presentations by physicists, . . . but in the struggle for a unified field theory, I think we have to find a unified Earth theory" to address the global climate crisis. In order to do this, citizens would need to become much more active and insistent about the problem to force politicians out of their complacency.

Lunar Eclipse May Shed Light on Climate Change - ABC News

Last month's lunar eclipse not only treated skygazers to a ruddy view of the Moon – it revealed that Earth's atmosphere contains little light-blocking volcanic dust.

Some researchers say the low volcanic dust levels in the atmosphere over the last dozen years could be contributing to global warming, but others dispute the claim.