Who cares about green IT? Not us!
Blog Who cares about going green? Apparently, datacentre managers don't, if this story is to be believed. It reports research from Gartner showing that "while energy management is the top... [29 Sep 2009]
The environmental impact of downloading
Blog I downloaded the portableapps.com portable applications suite on a USB stick today. I did the same thing the day before yesterday, and I had mislaid it somewhere in the midst of the plethora of... [28 Aug 2009]
How green is your data centre?
Blog Data centre management is all about power and cooling - most data centres seem to have the data side of things sorted. It's the energy draw that hurts the budget most. Well, that's close to the... [30 Jul 2009]
HP and the African e-waste problem: Round 2
Blog I have been tracking the issue of illegal dumping of old tech in Africa for a while now and reported HP's first efforts to investigate this issue last year: ... [17 Feb 2009]
Google emits rebuttal to carbon claims
Blog Reacting swiftly to a Harvard academic's claims that two Google searches produce as much greenhouse gas as boiling a kettle, the company has posted a blog on the subject. "We thought it would be... [12 Jan 2009]
Are LCDs really greener than CRTs?
Blog New research this week from the US has shown that levels of a greenhouse gas emitted during the production of LCDs and flat-screen TVs - is actually four times higher than previously thought. ... [24 Oct 2008]
Apple carves out a new case for manuacturing
Blog A wonderful rumour is circulating in the Applesphere, regarding a brick. The Apple Brick. The phrase itself has been around for a while, although nobody outside the company had any idea what it... [05 Oct 2008]
Out of the cardboard box thinking on green data centres
Blog A lot of companies out there would like us to believe that data centres can somehow be green. But as one data centre builder admitted to me this week, "Anyone who claims they have a green data... [24 Sep 2008]
Confessions of an IT Eco-Sinner
Blog Just working my way through an excellent book called Confessions of an Eco Sinner by Fred Pearce. The gist of the book is that rather than just come all preachy about the state of the planet -... [17 Sep 2008]
Back to The Thirties
Blog Saturday 2:28 AM Xwindowsjunkie Power & Light is running. Standard AC power went down at about 2AM. Reliant Energy wasn't so we've dropped back to the 1930's. That's when a lot of farms in the... [13 Sep 2008]
Running a WEEE recycling plant
Blog IT-Green is currently undergoing some major changes and I guess it's fair to say that being one of 2 directors, I'm in the driving seat (not to blow my own trumpet or anything) . Lets get one... [05 Sep 2008]
Come talk to us about datacentre efficiency
Blog I read every post made on ZDNet UK by our members, and every day it's brought home to me what a wealth of expertise there is out there among our users. Of course, it's the cornerstone of the... [29 Aug 2008]
Is the WEEE directive in trouble?
Blog The directive was introduced to little fanfare in the UK about this time last year. A large number of reprocessors jumped on the WEEE bandwaggon, hoping to make quick and "profitable" exercise out... [21 Aug 2008]
Is Dell being paid to be green?
Blog Following from an earlier post around Dell's claims this week that it had achieved 80 PLUS Gold power supply certification for a server product, I have done a bit more digging (well, reading... [27 Jun 2008]
Dell trumpets green moves, Greenpeace begs to differ
Blog The computer maker has announced today that is has become the first in its industry to achieve 80 Plus Gold-certification for a server product. Dell claims this is the latest sign that it's on its... [25 Jun 2008]
Of painters and programmers
Blog If you happen to read this blog then let me issue a caveat up front. I am NOT suggesting for one minute that the skill set needed to be a painter and decorator is in any way akin or at a similar... [14 Apr 2008]
Teleworking: Truly green or just naive?
Blog I'm sat in the European Green IT Summit at the Sheraton Hotel in London, listening to a remarkable range of speakers and hearing people sat around me nodding heads in agreement. What has emerged as... [13 Mar 2008]
Easynet's green Rally cry
Blog It’s a good job that the majority of our press releases arrive by email these days as if we were still back in the times when snail mail predominated then the sheer volume of missives detailing the... [28 Jan 2008]
OLPCs land at ZDNet Towers
Blog We are now the proud, if temporary, possessors of no fewer than four OLPC XO laptops. The XO is Nicholas Negroponte's brainchild: a machine that, he and his team hopes, will change the way... [28 Jan 2008]
Bringing Computer Aid to Cuba
Blog It’s too late to sign-up unfortunately, but I am sure IT charity Computer Aid would bite hands off for more donations for its annual charity cycle ride which kicks off next month. Last year’s event... [28 Jan 2008]
Homebrew Cosy Cottage - A High Tech Old House
Blog In my previous blog I outlined our plan to free energy from the air to heat my dear old cottage in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to install an air source heat pump - essentially... [14 Dec 2007]
Conserving energy in an automated home - Part 1
Blog In the same way that the saying “you’ve got to spend money to make money” works, sometimes it’s also necessary to spend energy to save energy. An automated home may have more gadgetry than normal... [07 Dec 2007]
One laptop per child available in developed countries too
Blog It seems the rumours that the fruits of the OLPC project, or "$100 laptop" project as its also known, will be made available to consumers in developed countries is true after all. There seemed... [24 Sep 2007]
An Inconvenient Truth: A Convenient Option?
Blog So I’m checking in for a BA flight this morning online and I notice that I’m now being offered the chance to offset my carbon emissions. A return to the East coast of the USA results in 1.32 tonnes... [29 Aug 2007]
HP and WWF save polar bears
Blog HP is donating around $2m to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to help with climate change including collaboration between the IT company and WWF scientists in Europe into how tech can help reduce... [25 May 2007]
Microsoft's $3 software plan ignores hardware problem
Blog I had a mail this morning from Tony Roberts, chief executive of IT charity Computer Aid. The organisation takes old tech from the UK and refurbishes it for use in developing countries. (I recently... [01 May 2007]
IT industry as environmentally evil as airlines
Blog The airline industry is the worst culprit when it comes to carbon emissions right? Wrong, according to a survey by analyst Gartner, the IT industry is just as bad – responsible for two percent of... [26 Apr 2007]
Sod the environment - free cabs on Microsoft!
Blog Microsoft has come in for some criticism over the environmental impact of Vista which some studies have shown to be the most resource hungry operating system the software giant has ever shipped.... [19 Apr 2007]
A green PC from the Emerald Isle
Blog A weekend with friends in Dublin put me in range of the Irish papers and a piece in the Irish Times (subscription only I am afraid) profiling a company behind a range of sustainable PCs. ... [05 Mar 2007]
PC World justifies environmental Vista claims
Blog We were surprised by PC World's decision. to build an environmentally sustainable PC around Microsoft's Vista OS – an operating system that has been widely derided for how power hungry it is. Also... [01 Mar 2007]
