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Sustainable sensing for a smarter planet
At what scale is indoor solar harvesting the better primary power source?
Sustainable sensing for a smarter planet
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Started by Google and Intel in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations.
http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org
The Green Grid is a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems around the globe. The organization seeks to unite global industry efforts to standardize on a common set of metrics, processes, methods and new technologies to further its common goals.
http://www.thegreengrid.org
Jargon
Life-Cycle Assessment: A methodology for assessing the ecological impact of some process or artifact across the span of its entire existence.