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• ​Corporate social responsibility extends as businesses integrate Green IT

  “Green IT is moving beyond the environmental characteristics of IT equipment..."

• Where is green IT heading in 2013?

  Analysts predict an uptake in trigeneration technology and data centre infrastructure management tools, and that there will be more consolidation of IT infrastructure, more sophisticated monitoring and reporting of energy use, and driving down energy costs will become a top priority for CIOs next year.

• 'Industrial Internet' to add trillions to global GDP by 2030

  The “Industrial Internet” (or Internet of Things) has the potential to add $10-15 trillion to global GDP by 2030 and reduce billions of dollars worth of waste across major industries such as healthcare, energy and transportation, according to a new report by General Electric (GE).

• University of Melbourne gets Green IT benefit from security

  The University of Melbourne has reported an unexpected side benefit from deploying network security — saving money.

• Microsoft strong-arms hardware makers into social responsibility

  After years of failing to get <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> to adopt a formal environmental sustainability policy, shareholders seem to have won: Microsoft will now insist its hardware suppliers comply with the company's social responsibility requirements.

• U.S. CTO challenges utilities: come up with way for consumers to have instant online access to their energy usage

  The idea sounds simple enough: you can go to your utility's Web site, click a green button and you get information about your household energy use.

• RFID boosts residential recycling in South Carolina county

  RFID tags attached to residential recycling carts have helped one South Carolina county more than double the pounds of plastics, paper and glass being recycled there.

• Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT

  How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds have adopted a number of practices that are useful not just for government IT but all manner of private and public company IT groups as well. These include everything from dedicated funding for green products, to improved employee training and reducing use of paper.

• How eBay's data center benefited from solar

  eBay has installed a 100 KW solar array on its data center in Denver. That's not enough power to run a data center, but Tom Price, eBay's Global Data Center Services manager, said the system, which was completed last November, is delivering benefits.

• Energy hogs: Servers vs. desktops vs. set-top boxes

  Set-top boxes supplied by cable companies are likely using more power than desktop and laptop computers, and about 25 per cent of the power used by a two-socket server.

• PC era giving way to 'contextual intelligence,' say top IT execs

  WASHINGTON - When Silicon Valley's chieftains say we're entering the "post-PC era," they are not just referring to the PC. According to the post-PC theory, tablets, smartphones and other devices are also on the verge of irrelevancy.

• How Green is my Cloud?

  When it comes to Cloud computing, CIOs are pragmatic, and perhaps cynical enough, to take its Green credentials with a grain of salt. It’s not that sustainability isn’t an issue, but it’s the flexibility and potential savings of Cloud computing that really have everybody excited. It’s probably just as well, because although Cloud companies are quick to play the ‘Green IT’ card, it seems they’re not always so eager to provide information to back up the claims. And as is so often the case when it comes to sustainability, it’s not just a story about energy efficiency — it’s about clean energy.

• Google: Five data center energy saving ideas you can implement

  When it comes to saving data center energy few companies would have the expertise of Google, which has some of the largest data centers in the world. It has or is experimenting with some interesting ideas to cool data centers more efficiently as well - it will soon open a seawater-cooled data center in Finland for example.

• Facebook's 'green' data center design to have ripple effect

  Facebook's innovative new <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> design -- believed to be one of the world's most energy-efficient facilities of its kind -- will have a significant influence on corporate data center build-outs over the next several years, experts say.

• Facebook joins the ranks of industry's elite

  Facebook's start-up days are long behind it.