AMD has made their Global Climate Protection Plan document available as a downloadable PDF file on their Climate Protection page found at: www.amd.com/climate

Western Digital’s hard drives have joined the techie greening movement. Here’s an Infoworld article about the new Green Power Hard Drives…
Western Digital Unveils Green Hard-Drive Line
…and here’s WD’s press release…
WD’S NEW GREENPOWER™ HARD DRIVES REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION, HELPING PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT

GCN has an article about the EPA releasing a draft for granting Energy Star designations for servers. It links to an EPA Energy Star Enterprise Servers web page. But, all I see there is a Dec. 28, 2006 announcement letter in a PDF file. Let me know if you can tell me where to find [...]

According to an InfoWorld article…
Update: Study: AMD more power-efficient than Intel
…AMD Opteron based servers are far more efficient than Intel Xeon based servers and this translates to annual electricity savings between $20.29 per server and $36.04 per server, depending on the workload, the study concluded. At idle speeds, it amounts to a $99.76 per-server, per [...]

From LinuxDevices.com…
Tiny PC sips power, runs Linux
Pretty amazing device. Check out the photos provided with the article linked above.

Anandtech’s…
Low Power Server CPU Shoot-out
…covers LV (Low Voltage) parts from AMD and Intel. The article provides concrete examples right down to naming names (Dell PowerEdge 1950 and 1435) and the cost associated with using LV part options.
The numerous charts really help to describe how power is used by the AMD and Intel configurations. I found [...]

The new Earth2Tech blog is part of the GigaOM blog network. It focuses on green tech startups.

Found this blog item on Microsoft’s on10.net tech media site…
5 Ways to Practice Green Computing
Items 1 through 4 are common ones (Energy Star, put laptops to sleep, etc.). However item 5 is something I only learned about a week or two ago: Smart power strips. I definitely need to look for this.

Treehugger has an interesting extrapolation of the cost of leaving PCs on all night at…
All-Nighter PCs Cost U.S. Businesses $1.7 Billion
The big problem is that many enterprise installation require you to leave your PC on all night to push out patches, install software, and run security checks (virus scans, etc.).
If you really want to see [...]

An old friend recommended…
P3 International Kill A Watt
…as a tool to monitor electricity usage for specific appliances, gadgets, etc. I have one on order from…
Amazon.com for $24.99 (free shipping, affiliate link) – P3 International Kill-A-Watt
I wonder if there is an affordable electricity monitor that stores data internally and makes available for analysis on computer via [...]