[LINK] Green universities?

[Nicholas English]

Great piece by Robin Williams (as usual), last week
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/canadian-building-benchmark-for-efficiency-in-construction-and-/3935320

Specifically on the ICT side was the minimisation of the desktop footprint
via virtualised services, but there was no mention  (that I recall) of
managing the backend energy requirements which would be interesting
quantify - has anybody have any material about this?
I was always disapointed that we couldn't manage to at least put the
Learning Precinct pcs into use overnight as a render farm make use of them
for GIS analysis in a parralell array when students did go home.

Nicholas English

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On 12 April 2012 02:16, Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:

> On 11/04/12 03:35, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>
> > How green are Australian universities? ...
>
> New unviersity buildings are much more energy efficient. However, I
> suspect the savings from this will be offset by the more intensive use
> of computers in the buildings.
>
> It happens that I set my ICT Sustainability class at the Australian
> National University the topic "How Green is My Learning Commons?". The
> students had to estimate the environmental footprint of a new
> computerised classroom at ANU. I expect to have some results in a few
> weeks.
>
> In the interim, I can release the details of the exercise, if anyone is
> interested.
>
> ps: The students are studying "ICT Sustainability:
> http://www.tomw.net.au/ict_sustainability/introduction.shtml
>
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