You don't need to be green to be a Green Techie
CNET’s Stephen Shankland collected a bunch of Google produced videos on YouTube that discuss Google’s energy efficient container data centers…
YouTube tour reveals Google data center designs
You can see of the videos embedded above.
I bought a Kill-A-Watt power meter a couple of years ago to figure out how much power various computers, peripherals and gadgets I have use. Now, adafruit industries announced…
Tweet-a-Watt kits now available…
This Open Source hardware project tells you how to modify your own Kill-A-Watt to tweet power usage data. You can also buy prebuilt kits from adafruit. They have a Twitter account set up so you can see what the power info tweets look like: @tweetawatt.
BTW: You can find me on Twitter as @toddogasawara
From USA Today…
Leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year
We’ve always known this wasteful behavior has a cost associated with it. Now, it has a number assigned to it and it is a big one. Windows users can Hibernate their PC. It works reasonably well on XP and Vista though it is not 100% reliable. However, when it does work, it is faster than rebooting and re-opening applications.
I wrote an article for O’Reilly Media’s DigitalMedia Mac Center titled…
How Much Electricity Does a Mac Use?
I measured a bunch of electronic devices including a MacBook and iMac using the inexpensive P3 P4400 Kill-A-Watt measureing device. The results were, IMHO, quite interesting.
Interesting real-life report from ExtremeTech’s Loyd Case…
…where he describes the experience of converting his home to run mostly on solar power.
PC Magazine’s title was good enough to get me to read this article 
The only thing that struck me as odd about this tech geek oriented article was that it did not suggest switching to a gas-friendlier geek-appealing hybrid or bio-diesel car.
The gas saving myths discussed in this article are:
Auto advances make gas advice moot
Rolling down the windows probably probably disrupts the car’s aerodynamic properties. But, you would think cranking down the air conditioner would provide the car more power (esp. uphill).
Just found this site today…
It describes itself as: …free, easy-to-use tools to help participants assess, track, and compare energy performance, share proven best practices to reduce greenhousegas (GHG) emissions, and encourage sustainable innovation.
According to this CNET item…
Dell hits server efficiency targets a year early
…a Dell server power supply is now 92% efficient when a server is at 50% load. This efficient power supply is not available in their current server lineup yet though.
Both of these URLs lead you to the Microsoft Environment web site…
http://www.microsoft.com/environment/
http://www.microsoft.com/green/
I wonder how green the site itself is? It would be interesting to learn if Microsoft took any special effort to green the hardware and other aspects of this particular site.