Green IT

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Green IT

Green Squared: Curbing Copying and Printing Gone Amuck

January 14, 2011 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2011

Is printing and copying running amuck on your campus? Millersville University is meeting our printing and copying challenges with the Green Squared Initiative. This initiative is centrally funded, …

100 Green IT Tips

August 20, 2010

Computers off.org has put together their 2010 100 Green IT tips. Computers off.org has put together their 2010 100 Green IT tips. …

Greening IT: How Greener IT Can Form a Solid Base For a Low-Carbon Society

August 23, 2010

The Greening of IT is a symptom of a much larger challenge for humankind - transitioning from economic childhood into maturity. Despite the emergence of large regional alliances such as the EC, h…

Good Citizen or Leader: The Case for Green IT

August 10, 2010

This ECAR research bulletin builds on Powering Down: Green IT in Higher Education, the 2010 ECAR study of green IT. Although this bulletin is not a digest of that study, it is offered as a g…

Measuring and Validating Attempts to Green Columbia's Data Center

October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Columbia University began a pilot in April 2009 to measure energy usage and verify the benefits of techniques to improve energy efficiency of our data center. This presentation will provide an asse…

Google + Google = Tea: Green IT Perspectives

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Supporting our institutions' sustainability efforts will be a key role for IT in the future. According to a Harvard physicist, the amount of CO 2 generated by two Google searches is about t…

Presidents Climate Commitment: Impacting Carbon Neutrality Through Technology and AV

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

IT and AV have great power to impact an institution's ability to achieve carbon neutrality. This session will illustrate implementable strategies and behavioral case studies using technology a…

The Greening of University IT: From Environment to Economics

October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

We know about going green: implementing environmental awareness programs, lowering carbon footprints, conserving water, and saving energy. We must now apply these principles to all of IT. In this s…

Greening the Campus: From the Data Center to the Classroom

October 15, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Lone Star College System has implemented many technologically proven measures such as server, storage, and switch virtualization. In addition, this session will share how designing the new Level IV…

BCNET: Collaboratively Building a Multi-Institutional Shared Green Data Center

June 10, 2010

This ECAR case study examines the work of BCNET, a Canadian not-for-profit organization that builds high-performance networks for British Columbia's research and education institutions. BCN…