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"EPEAT registry of leading green IT products expanded to cover 40 countries

Firms looking to purchase equipment should find it easier to identify the most environmentally friendly models from this week, following the global launch of the US-based Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT).

"ZURICH, CH -- IBM today unveiled a new, first-of-its-kind high-performance computer (HPC) that will use water for cooling, as a way of cutting energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from data centers.

This article describes the technologies that are now available to support green IT initiatiaves.  Now we must work on management practises and behaviors in the work place.

Reports swirled around the last release of the Greenpeace Gude to Greener Electronics (version 10) that the rating of Apple was purposefully low in order to spur action.  If those reports were true, according to the latest Guide to Green Electronics (version 11) which was released on March 31st, it worked.  Apple has improved.