Sustainable Information Technology in Tertiary Education (SUSTE-IT)

Green ICT Tools and Guidance

ICT Organisations

Green ICT Events

Green Computing Websites

Reports on Environmental Impacts of ICT

Reports on Environmental Impacts of Data Centres/Server Rooms

If there are any useful sources of information on sustainable ICT that you think we should add, please send these suggestions to suste-it@heepi.org.uk.

Green ICT Tools and guidance

Australian Computer Society, 2007, Policy Statement on Green ICT, August 2007. http://www.acs.org.au/acs_policies/docs/2007/greenictpolicy.pdf

Australian Government Information Management Office, 2005, Measures in support of environmentally-friendly ICT, 2005. http://www.agimo.gov.au/government/enviro_friendly_ict/environmentally_friendly_ict2

Australian Government Information Management Office, Guide to ICT Sourcing for Australian Government Agencies. http://www.sourceit.gov.au/sourceit/ict/guide_to_ict_sourcing_-_contents

Cornell University Facilities Services. Sustainable Computing Making IT easy to be green. http://www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/getinvolved/Staff%20orgs/Docs/FSSustainableComputingGuide.pdf

Electronic Council EPEAT (electronic product environmental assessment tool), http://www.greenelectronicscouncil.org/epeat/criteria.htm

Emerson, 2007, Energy Logic, Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Creating Savings that Cascade Across Systems. http://www.liebert.com/common/ViewDocument.aspx?id=880

Envirowise. GG256: Green Officiency: Running a cost effective environmentally aware office. http://www.envirowise.gov.uk/118465. Revised 2002.

European Commission Joint Research Centre, 2007. Code of Conduct on Data Centres Version 0.7, October 2007. http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/energyefficiency/index.htm

EU Energy Star website, http://www.eu-energystar.org/en/

Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Knurr, 2007, Energy Efficient Infrastructures for Data Centers. July 2007. http://www.knuerr.com/web/zip-pdf/White-Paper/en/Energy-Efficient%20Infrastructures%20for%20Data%20Center.pdf

Global Action Plan, 2007, An Inefficient Truth. December 2007. http://www.globalactionplan.org.uk/event_detail.aspx?eid=2696e0e0-28fe-4121-bd36-3670c02eda49

Greenpeace, 2007. Guide to Greener Electronics. V6, December 2007. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-companies-line-up

Hengst A., 2007, Top 10 Ways to Improve Power Performance in Your Datacenter. Feature article on IT Management, 4 October 2007. http://www.itmanagement.com/features/improve-power-performance-datacenter-100407/

The Green Card, Kyocera’s green office website. http://www.thegreencard.org/pages/about_us/aboutus_intro.asp

The Green Grid, 2007, The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE. 2007. http://www.thegreengrid.org/gg_content/

University of Liverpool’s (free) PowerDown software http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/powerdown/

US EPA Enterprise Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiatives, website. http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=prod_development.server_efficiency

US-EPA Energy Star Tier 1 Specification for computers (came into effect June 2007) http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=revisions.computer_spec

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ICT Organisations

British Computer Society

Datacentre Networking Group

Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

Society Information Technology Management (SOCITM)

Special Interest Group for IT in Russell Group Universities (RUGIT)

SustainIT

University Colleges and Information Systems Association (UCISA)

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Green ICT events

Future
Institute of Electronic Engineers 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment (19-21 May, San Francisco). http://www.regconnect.com/content/isee/

Past
Information Age, Eco Responsibility in IT 07, London 8 November 2007
http://www.information-age.com/events/eco-responsibility/programme

Socitm, Techno-footprint: ICT and Sustainability in the Public Sector, 29 November 2007. http://www.socitm.gov.uk/socitm/Events/Techno-footprint+-+ICT+and+Sustainability+in+the+Public+Sector.htm

Institute of Electronic Engineers - hold annual symposium on electronics and the environment http://www.ieee.org/portal/site

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Green Computing Websites

Greener Computing

Eco PC Review

Vertatique

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Reports on the Environmental Impacts of ICT

Cornell University Facilities Services. Sustainable Computing Making IT easy to be green. http://www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/getinvolved/Staff%20orgs/Docs/FSSustainableComputingGuide.pdf

Environmental Committee of the Environmental Paper Network, 2007, State of the Paper Industry. Monitoring the Indicators of Environmental Performance. http://www.environmentalpaper.com/documents/StateOfPaperIndSm.pdf

Fraunhofer IZM and PE Europe, 2007. EuP Preparatory Studies “Imaging Equipment” (Lot 4). Final Report on Task 5 “Definition of Base Cases”. November, 2007. http://www.ecoimaging.org/docs/Lot4_T5_Final_Report_2007-11-12.pdf

Fraunhofer IZM and PE Europe, 2007, EuP Preparatory Studies “Imaging Equipment” (Lot 4), Documents under review. http://www.ecoimaging.org/underreview_documents.php

Fraunhofer IZM, 2007, EuP Preparatory Studies “Standby and Off-mode losses of EuPs”. (Lot 6) October 2007.http://www.ecostandby.org/finalised_documents.php

Global Action Plan, 2007, An Inefficient Truth. December 2007. http://www.globalactionplan.org.uk/event_detail.aspx?eid=2696e0e0-28fe-4121-bd36-3670c02eda49

Horvath A. and Masanet E., 2007, An analysis of measures to reduce the Life Cycle Energy consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions associated with California’s PCs, University of California Energy Institute, 2007. http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1036&context=ucei

IBM Global Technology Services, 2007. ‘Green IT’: the next burning issue for business. January 2007. http://www-935.ibm.com/services/uk/igs/pdf/greenit_pov_final_0107.pdf

IVF Industrial Research and Development Corporation, 2007. Lot 3: Personal Computers (desktops and laptops) and Computer Monitors. Final Report (Task 1-8). Preparatory studies for Eco-design Requirements of EuPs. Report for the European Commission, August 2007. http://extra.ivf.se/ecocomputer/downloads/Eup%20Lot%203%20Final%20Report%20070913%20published.pdf

Market Transformation Programme, 2007, Consultation on sustainable products - improving the efficiency of energy-using products. Chapter 5. Improving the energy performance of information and communication technology products, December 2007. http://www.mtprog.com/Whitepaper.aspx

National Energy Foundation and 1E, 2007, The PC Energy Report. http://www.1e.com/energycampaign/downloads/1E_reportFINAL.pdf

Ruediger Kuehr and Williams Eric (Eds) Computers and the Environment. Understanding and Managing the Impacts. Kluwer Academic Publishers, United Nations University. October 2003. ISBN 1-4040-1680-8. http://www.unu.edu/zef/publications-d/flyer.pdf

Street, Terry, 2007, Green ICT – taking the strategic approach. Briefing paper for Socitm Consulting, September 2007. http://www.socitm.gov.uk/socitm/Library/Socitm+Consulting+briefing+on+Green+ICT.htm

Pratt, M. K., 2006, Sustainable Computing: it’s not easy being green, Computer World article 20 March 2006. http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/story/0,10801,109629,00.html

VHK, 2005. Methodology Study Eco-design of Energy-using Products. (MEEUP). Product Cases Report. Final report to the European Commission, November 2005. http://www.vhknet.com/download/MEEUP_ProductCases_fin.pdf

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Reports on the Environmental Impacts of Data Centres/Server rooms

Emerson, 2007, Energy Logic, Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Creating Savings that Cascade Across Systems. http://www.liebert.com/common/ViewDocument.aspx?id=880 (other useful White Papers on energy efficiency by Emerson can be found at http://www.liebert.com/servicesupport_pages/WhitePapers.aspx?id=35

European Commission Joint Research Centre, 2007. Code of Conduct on Data Centres Version 0.7, October 2007. http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/energyefficiency/index.htm

Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Knurr, 2007, Energy Efficient Infrastructures for Data Centers. July 2007. http://www.knuerr.com/web/zip-pdf/White-Paper/en/Energy-Efficient%20Infrastructures%20for%20Data%20Center.pdf

Hengst A., 2007, Top 10 Ways to Improve Power Performance in Your Datacenter. Feature article on IT Management, 4 October 2007. http://www.itmanagement.com/features/improve-power-performance-datacenter-100407/

Koomey J G, 2007, Estimating Total Power Consumption by Servers in the US and the World. February 2007. http://enterprise.amd.com/Downloads/svrpwrusecompletefinal.pdf

The Green Grid, 2007, The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE. 2007. http://www.thegreengrid.org/gg_content/

US EPA Enterprise Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiatives, website. http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=prod_development.server_efficiency

US EPA, 2007, EPA Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, August 2007. http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=prod_development.server_efficiency_study

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