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Long but very useful.

Environmental impact of data storage.

Presentation by British Computer Society. Useful information.

If you want to keep up to date with what's going on in the world of green ICT, take a look at The Green IT Review. This blog covers significant industry-related news, and highlights issues and trends, with a focus not so much on what happened today, but what it means for tomorrow. The Green IT Review is read by people in more than 75 countries across the globe, with a significant number of registered readers receiving news by email every day. News and comment from the site is reproduced in a number of web sites and publications in North America, Canada, Europe and Australia.

Too complex for students but useful background for the teacher. Smart sensor networks - technologies and applications for green growth 12-Jan-2010 Sensor networks play an important role in tackling environmental challenges. Sensor applications in smart power grids, smart buildings and smart industrial processes make significant contributions to more efficient resource use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. This report gives an overview of sensor technologies and applications, and quantifies their environmental impacts.

Two downloadable reports on this page Towards Green ICT Strategies Measuring the Relationship Between ICT and the Environment

Video: Greening ICT case study QuickTime (Duration: 8.05) Greening ICT case study from Queen Margaret University. Good overview of the problems and solutions.

Lots of resources on Green ICT, mostly pdfs. Useful for background.

Neerjaal is an Information Communication Technology enabled water resource management system for grassroots communities. It is about collation of ground water related content and information and management of water resources with the available information. The Neerjaal software facilitates generating, storing and making public the water related information in a village.  The core objective of Neerjaal is to contribute towards managing scarce water resources across communities in India.

Phishing attack nets 3 million euros of carbon permits

Short but interesting article about the environment impact of data centres, particularly those used by large search engines.

An article about some of the (non-ewaste) environmental effects of IT. Talks about energy consumption, health risks to microchip plant workers, and resource use. (This also published in the book Computer Confluence)

Lesson 2: Supply Chain of a Laptop can be adapted for ITGS>