Green IT

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Green IT

Energy Drain by Computers Stifles Efforts at Cost Control

January 5, 2009

Many institutions waste millions of dollars per year powering inefficient machines, outdated cooling systems, and improvised clusters of servers stored in lab closets and back rooms. …

Energy-Efficient Data Center Concepts

December 11, 2008

Minimizing data center energy requires a systems approach that employs efficient use of electrical energy in all parts of the overall system. This document provides the planning and design framew…

Planning for the Transformation Chain of Informatics Residuals

October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

This session will present the sustainability project being conducted by the Electronic Computing Center at the University of São Paulo. This project focuses on reducing and eliminating the solid w…

Glimpses of Our IT Future: What's Green, Mobile, and Regulated All Over?

October 31, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Come hear the outcomes of this year's Evolving Technologies Committee's research and join the discussion! Committee members will share their research on selected evolving technologies and…

Green IT Initiatives

October 30, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Supporting our institutions' sustainability efforts and responses to climate change will be a key role for higher education IT in the decades to come. This showcase will provide a framework fo…

What Will It Take to Become Carbon Neutral?

October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Climate neutrality is a taller order than many people realize. Achieving this goal will require far more than simply redoubling our efforts. Green IT initiatives are an important component, but we …

Seminar 13A - How to Go Green: Sustainable Computing in Higher Ed PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.

October 28, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

This seminar will focus on green computing in higher education. It will provide an overview of the topic, focusing on how sustainability needs to be an integral part of IT engagement and planning f…

Glimpses of Our IT Future: What’s Green, Mobile, and Regulated All Over?

October 23, 2008

© 2008 Beth Forrest Warner and the 2008 EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License …

Building the Green Data Center: Towards Best Practices and Technical Considerations

October 6, 2008

Designing and building green data centers can have a significant impact on the environment and a company's bottom line. A green data center is a repository for the storage, management, and d…

Climate Change, Campus Commitments, and IT

September 30, 2008

This ECAR research bulletin analyzes how several IT offices, largely at Maryland colleges and universities, are responding to the challenges issued in the American College & University Pres…