If you are interested in Green IT in any shape or form, you should have come across the 'Greening IT' project/book. If you haven't yet, then you are missing out on a valuable resource.

The concept is a good one - get lots of writers together who are passionate and knowledgeable about the many and varied aspect of Green IT, get them to write about their individual area of expertise, and then release it. For Free.

The idea is to invite contributing authors in a collaborative effort to cover as many areas of Green IT as possible, as opposed to one guy sitting in a room for months, doing tons of research, then emerging in his Metallica t-shirt smelling slightly of cheesy puffs holding a piece of work that is already out of date..

Each release of the work contains more and more interesting chapters. Here is the latest list.

Our Tools Will Not Save Us This Time - by Laurent Liscia
Climate Change and the Low Carbon Society - by Irene N. Sobotta
Why Green IT Is Hard - An Ecomonic Perspective -by Rien Dijkstra
Cloud Computing - by Adrian Sobotta
Thin Client Computing - by Sean Whetstone
Smart Grid - by Adrian Sobotta
How IT Contributes to the Greening of the Grid - by Dr. George W. Arnold
Green IT Industry Review - by Ariane Rüdiger
Out of The Box Ways IT Can Help to Preserve Nature and Reduce CO2 Simultaneously - By Flavia Souza

Now check out that last chapter title! If that doesn't stimulate your curiosity then nothing will, and a great, thought provoking piece it is too. in it, Flavia talks about the less obvious ways in which IT is already helping many causes in the fight against climate change and injustice.

Homer Simpson does Green IT? No, just a typo..

Finally, I think that we can all agree that the subject of Green IT can be a little dry at times. So I had to laugh a little when I came across an erroneous link  in Ariane Rüdiger's Green IT Industry Review. In her piece, she mentions a government sponsored Green IT platform - Deutsche Umwelthilfe - http://www.duh.de/ Unfortunately the URL provided is http://www.duh.org/ - 'Pointing out the obvious since 1994..'!?

Download the book, it's in PDF format and at just under 200 pages an easy and pleasant read. And if you think you could, why not contribute?