How to reduce the digital carbon footprint of IT (Archive)

The environmental impact of technology is fast becoming a key driver – and brake – on any company's sustainability journey. Many industry analysts and IT leaders are turning to technology to help them cope with carbon accounting and other environmental efforts. Less publicized, however, are the high negative environmental costs of the technology. Business and IT leaders would do well to understand this complex issue and act now. A key element of this approach is understanding and addressing the organization's digital carbon footprint. (Carolyn Heinze, more at techtarget.com)