Green Energy for Environmental Sustainability

Energy Green Data Centers for Sustainability

Humankind is not living sustainably, and action must be taken, and taken soon, to reverse this negative trend and reconcile human use of the planet’s resources with the ability of the Earth to supply them. A successful sustainability transition, moreover, will demand critical advances in basic knowledge, in humankind’s social and technological capacity to utilize it, and in the political will t...

Green Cloud computing and Environmental Sustainability

Cloud computing is a highly scalable and cost-effective infrastructure for running HPC, enterprise and Web applications. However, the growing demand of Cloud infrastructure has drastically increased the energy consumption of data centers, which has become a critical issue. High energy consumption not only translates to high operational cost, which reduces the profit margin of Cloud providers, b...

Green Cities, the Search for Sustainability, and Urban Environmental History

Green Software Development and Design for Environmental Sustainability

While research results exist in energy efficient hardware and its components to achieve environmental sustainability, major research is needed to relate energy consumption of hardware to energy consumption of its executing software. Since software is playing an increasing role in supporting our society its energy efficiency and environmental impact become more important. Green IT and green soft...

Implementing green chemistry . An environmental policy for sustainability *

A diverse cocktail of synthetic chemicals is now globally distributed in the environment, food web, and human tissues, posing significant health risks to humans and wildlife. The current approach to environmental regulation is inherently inadequate to address the scope and complexity of this problem. A fundamental shift in paradigm is required to protect human health and ecological systems from...