April 22, 2008

Savoring the fruits of the Green 15's seeds

There are plenty of valuable lessons in sustainability to be gleaned from InfoWorld's 2008 Green 15 winners

Spurred by business needs as well as environmental concerns, green IT projects blossomed in datacenters and on desktops throughout the world in 2007.

To encourage environmentally sound practices in a world where the serious repercussions of climate change are becoming all too clear, we at InfoWorld are proud to present our first annual Green 15 award recipients to those organizations that have made significant energy-saving, waste-reducing initiatives.

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This year's winners are, in alphabetical order:
BT Group retrofits to reduce carbon footprint
Bryant University's datacenter built to scale efficiently
Digital Realty Trust mines energy savings from LEED Gold
EMC gets greener with IT-facilities partnership
Fujitsu taps hydrogen power to fuel energy savings
Hewlett-Packard manages power efficiency from afar
IBM tackles IT energy efficiency on a Big Blue scale
GM2 Logistics marries SANs and sustainability
The Green Grid's metrics sow the seeds for IT sustainability
Juniper Networks sheds nearly 1.3B watts
Miami-Dade County Public Schools pinches PC power consumption
NetApp manages to keep its cool
One Laptop Per Child's low-power laptop empowers and inspires
Sun Microsystems plants pods for sustainability and savings
Verizon Wireless rings in desktop power savings

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