Friday is finally here! I hope you all enjoyed a good week, especially those of you who participated in Power IT down day yesterday! Let's hope in the near future we can move beyond simply one day when it comes do powering down unused IT equipment.

For those of you wondering what the status of climate change legislation in the U.S. is, there's not much to report except that the bill is delayed in the Senate. Originally there was hope that the bill would be introduced in late July. The bill's primary sponsor in the Senate, though, had hip surgery recently (that would be John Kerry), and the untimely death of Ted Kennedy has officially led to a delay until at least "late September." My guess is that this summer's health care fuss is the real cause of the delay, with the administration preferring to fight one battle at a time. Meanwhile, NPR had a great story this week about carbon sequestration and how it affects farmers as outlined in the bill. No-till fields may be an easy way for the U.S. to reduce its carbon footprint, but apparently only when the conditions are just right.

Finally, the good folks at CDW released an interesting report this week. The company surveyed 752 I.T. executives in the private and government sectors and found that by and large, I.T. executives are stuck between competing short term (cost) and long term (environmental) concerns. The report also does a nice job examining the relationship between management's commitment to green tech and the resulting energy efficiencies within the organization. The full report can be found here.

That's all for now! Happy Labor Day for our U.S. readers, and see you next week.