Service

Enterprises

• http://www.dc-ce.de/ Award winning data-center consulting, consulting for new datacenters and retrofitting, sustainable and energy efficient.

Communities

• https://www.xing.com/net/greenit/ The XING-discussion-group, for all people who make the IT green or have ideas how to do green it.

Blogs

Vertatique - For people and enterprises committed to sustainable practices in computing and e-media

Blade Watch is your hub for blade grid and high performance financial computing news blogged by Martin MacLeod, Blade Consultant. Put this in your feed reader and have a scan every now and then to track what’s cooking around the blade world.

Mark Ontkush We provide reports and commentary on all aspects of green computing and sustainable technologies in IT.

Server Specs The Data Center Blog A lot of news about the progress in data center power efficiency.

Links

Here you can find all URLs going out from ecologee.net : http://www.ecologee.net/pmwiki.php/Site/ApprovedUrls

• http://www.sustainablesiliconvalley.org/
• http://www.cleanbits.nl
• http://www.thewatt.com Energy News and Discussion
• http://www.jahrbuch-oekologie.de/TuerkRitthoffGeiblerKuhndt2003.pdf (german) Virtuell = umweltverträglich? Der ökologische Rucksack des Internets, a deep and well founded paper about internet and environement, pupblished in the german Jahrbuch Ökologie 2003 (Yearbook of ecology 2003)
• http://www.heartland.org/pdf/23224v.pdf The internet begins with coal: A Preliminary Exploration of the Impact of the Internet on Electricity Consumption A study to the power consumption of the Internets, published 1999 (somewhat outdated)
• http://www.ciber-runa.net/guide/BetterUpgrade--ActivistGuide.html A Better Upgrade, Not a Faster Throw-Away! An activist guide to minimizing the social and environmental impact of computers and reforming the industry
• http://greenerside.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/11/solar_and_wind_.html#more If you're building a website, you need to park it somewhere. But did you think about all the energy needed to power the servers that keep your web pages safe? Check out some of these web hosting companies that run on solar and wind power instead.
• http://www.metaefficient.com/ The latest news about products that not only look nice, but are sustainable, unluckily only in English.
• http://www.solarserver.de All of the world of solar-power from the solar-nation Germany, incliuding a very big shop.
• http://www.no-e.de/ Here you can find a very good overview of the power-consumption of PC-hardware.
• http://www.energiesparmuseum.de All about energy-saving.
• http://www.quantys.de Innovative solarproducts, and similar, e.g. radio-controlled-clocks solar powered clocks, letter balances and electric tackers. (german only)
• http://peswiki.com/ A English Wiki, about alternative energies and their production.
• http://www.sonnenseite.com/ Great german website with daily news out of the renewable energy-sector.
• explanations to eco-power-labeling of the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology
• OTHERPOWER and utterpower Open source hardware projects to build power supplies, for people living off grid.

http://www.microtech.doe.gov/EnergyStar/index.html