Most Green ICT attention focuses on the data center, but there is growing evidence that the data center represents a minority of total ICT energy consumption and carbon emissions. The latest supporting data comes from Australia .

Few state recycling laws address consumer media devices other than TVs. Here are the states that do.

How much gear is attached to the edges of our global ICT infrastructure? Our latest estimate yields over 13 billion items, driven by mobile devices.

The key element of EPA ENERGY STAR® for data center buildings is the mapping by the Portfolio Manager of industry-standard metric PUE to ENERGY STAR's 1-100 building rating. Exactly how does this work?

Vertatique and RIA partnered to run a series of tests with Portfolio Manager. We used total and IT energy loads such that each hypothetical data center building had the same PUE and energy intensity. Even so, the ratings varied among the buildings.

Vertatique includes GreenICT progress and issues from outside the United States. Here are some updates from this region. Click here for more Green ICT news and analysis from this and all the regions around the world.

The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics' October 2009 issue of ERCIM News has a Green ICT theme. It contains articles on energy-efficient networking and storage, data center operations, and other Green ICT topics.

Liverpool University won the Green Gown's Green ICT award for its freely-available PowerDown power management tools for Windows, which is says eliminated 1,000,000 hours/month of idle time. But even while receiving the award, the University was already in the process of replacing PowerDown with a more "aggressive" commercial product (PowerMAN) which it predicts will double the reductions. Green ICT never stands still!

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has been active in a number of areas touching on Green ICT, including the IEEE 1680 standard used by EPEAT. Vertatique regularly cites IEEE publication Spectrum.

Vertatique includes GreenICT progress and issues from outside the United States. Here are some updates from the Asia/Pacific region. Click here for more GreenICT news and analysis from this and all regions of the world.

It appears that Victoria (AU) is working to establish a Green ICT leadership position with its "Green IT CLuster", its "Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET)", and its "Green ICT Initiatives" to enable government ICT facilities to be more environmentally sustainable. (There are 132 EPEAT Gold computer products registered for Australia, more than for Japan but less than for China.)

IDC's 3rd annual Green IT and Sustainability Survey of 450 organizations in Asia/Pacific found that while "the cost of energy is still the key driver for organizations…Growth in IT Infrastructure was also indicated as a factor that is rising fast on the agenda, particularly in China."

There appears to be little consistent information for evaluating manufacturer claims about green phones and other mobile devices and much of that is dated*. Here's what we found.

Apple is becoming increasingly transparent about the environmental impact of its products. This is providing us with a wealth of data about sustainable use of IT products and e-devices. Apple's analysis of its products' CO2e emissions (which are linked to energy consumption and heat emissions) is a case in point.

We recently took a look at the environmental aspects of Apple's new iPhone4. How does the new Mac mini (MC270) perform?