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.

OrganicPicks.com has an interesting article declaring…
10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE BUYING A SOLAR ELECTRIC SYSTEM
It seems very specific to PG&E customers. But, I’ll guess it applies to most people outside of that specific grid.

TreeHugger.com has an amusing item titled…
DIY: Recycling Floppy Disks
Um, ok. But that is so last millenium. What I really need are good ideas on recycling those hundreds (maybe thousands) of CDs I received in many many beta cycles over the past decade.

One of things that irritated me about external USB/Firewire hard drives for a long time was that they stayed on when the computer they were attached to went into low-power sleep mode. Fortunately, it turns out that the Western Digital My Book line of external hard drives are smart. They not only place themselves in […]

An article in the July 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine titled…
Make Your WPF Apps Power-Aware
…helps you write software for Windows XP and Vista using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that is power-aware. The author (Andre Mechaud) notes that Vista provides more facilities for providing power information to an application than XP.

The U.S. Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program has downloadable…
Energy Cost Calcuators
…available in the form of Excel spreadsheets. It has calculators for all kinds of items including computers, monitors, printers, and other gear.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energey Information Administration (EIA) has a web page called…
Average Retail Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customers by End-Use Sector, by State
…that has a simple table that lists the cost of electricity in cents per kilowatthour for each state. The table is also downloadable in an Excel spreadsheet.