http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/ Eco-news and commentary on sustainable data centers, green gadgets and clean-tech innovations. en Copyright 2010 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:11:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification With Washington absorbed with this week's health care showdown, there's little attention being paid to the progress of climate change legislation. As I've blogged about here before, however, it would be a mistake to assume that just because attention has... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/quiet-horse-tra.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/quiet-horse-tra.html cap and trade green IT Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:11:00 -0500 Monday News Roundup, March 15, 2010 Data center operator Equinix has been granted LEED certification for its 2009 retrofit of its SV2 International Business Exchange facility in Silicon Valley. Binghamton University professors believe that just-in-time provisioning of IT resources and... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/monday-news-rou-44.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/monday-news-rou-44.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:18:18 -0500 In spite of being the world's largest greenhouse polluter in absolute terms, China likes to point out that given its massive population, its greenhouse gas emissions aren't anywhere near the U.S. when broken down on a per person basis. That's... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/china-goes-into.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/china-goes-into.html carbon Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:54:21 -0500 For reasons not officially announced, the U.N. official in charge of last year's Copenhagen climate change summit, Yvo de Boer, has quit to pursue a more lucrative career in academe and business consulting. The speculation surrounding his resignation is that... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/copenhagen-chie.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/copenhagen-chie.html cap and trade carbon green IT Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:27:30 -0500 I've previously blogged about Facebook's new data center in Oregon and the subsequent backlash from Greenpeace about Facebook's decision to purchase electricity from a utility that largely relies on coal for its electricity generation. This morning, the esteemed Wall Street... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/data-centers-fl.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/data-centers-fl.html Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:15:59 -0500 Monday News Roundup, March 8 2010 Organizers and researchers of the Sixth Data Centers Europe 2010 conference announce that APC by Schneider Electric will be demonstrating how to provide energy while addressing energy efficiency legislation. Altruent Systems, a systems integration... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/monday-news-rou-43.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/monday-news-rou-43.html Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:56:05 -0500 While traveling through Asia this week, I noticed an interesting TV commercial in my hotel room by NEC. The commercial features a boardroom scene with the CEO-type fretting about high IT energy costs, and one of his employees suggesting a... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/what-if-theyre.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/what-if-theyre.html climate change green IT Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:40:36 -0500 Up until now, it's been quite a challenge to determine the veracity of claims by various companies about how green their data centers are. The recent Facebook flap, for example, where Facebook claimed it was building the world's greenest data... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/groups-move-tow.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/groups-move-tow.html cooling datacenter Energy Star green IT PUE Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:48:19 -0500 Monday News Roundup, March 1, 2010 A myriad of federal and state tax credits are available for Green IT projects related to data centers, and they don't all have to be new constructions to qualify. The EPA is finalizing its... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/monday-news-rou-42.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/monday-news-rou-42.html green IT news roundup Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500 Over the weekend, while the Nobel prize-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change appointed an independent committee to determine whether it needs to change its procedures to ensure scientific rigor and integrity, news broke that key Senators are considering a... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/senators-ponder.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/senators-ponder.html cap and trade carbon tariff climate change green IT Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:55:00 -0500 When I was a kid, I enjoyed watching Marty McFly traverse time in his DeLorean, powered by a flux capacitor. The flux capacitor was a magical device, the size of a coffee can, that generated the huge amount of power... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/will-the-bloom.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/will-the-bloom.html data center fuel cell green IT Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:19:08 -0500 The administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, has an unenviable job. She's under orders from the U.S. Supreme Court to treat carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act, but she's... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/epa-provides-ti.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/epa-provides-ti.html carbon datacenter EPA green IT Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:05:03 -0500 Yesterday morning I blogged about Facebook's announcement that it was opening its first wholly-owned data center in Oregon. Facebook claims that the data center will be one of the most energy efficient in the world and will be LEED-certified. Besides... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/facebook-gets-s.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/facebook-gets-s.html datacenter facebook green IT renewable energy Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:44:15 -0500 Monday News Roundup, Feb. 22, 2010 Viridity Software and the Global Green Consulting Group announce a strategic partnership to leverage Viridity's software solution during customer engagements in order to provide them with a deeper understanding of their data center power... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/monday-news-rou-41.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/monday-news-rou-41.html green IT news roundup power and cooling power management virtualization Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:14:11 -0500 The next time you place an order for a piece of IT tech or gear, you may want to consider slower shipping methods, especially if you are placing a large order from Asia. According to the NYT, by halving its... http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/in-carbon-reduc.html http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/in-carbon-reduc.html carbon carbon credits emissions green IT Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:18:19 -0500