Resources on Campus Sustainability and Information Technology (IT)

Below are some of Monroe Community College's selected references and resources related to sustainability issues and the role of information technology in these efforts.

Visitors: Please add other related sources, references and Green IT events to this listing. 

Green IT Overview PowerPoint for Technology Managers:

MCC Green IT Essentials with comments.pptx. This Green IT overview PowerPoint presentation was developed by Monroe Community College for use by Technology Managers. Thank you to the faculty developers of this PowerPoint presentation: Kristy Mooney-Graves, Jennnifer Hill and Richard Squires. Please use the PowerPoint "notes" view to see the commentary for each slide.

Overview of the Structure and Content of Ten Selected Campus Sustainability Plans (alpha order), Marie Fetzner:

Overview of structures and content for selected Campus Sustainability Plans.docx

The Role of IT in Campus Sustainability Plans (PowerPoint presentation from the SUNY Technology Conference--STC--on June 9, 2009): Jeff Bartkovich and Marie Fetzner

Organizations related to Higher Education and Sustainability Issues:

• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE): http://www.aashe.org/index.php
• Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future: http://www.ulsf.org/
• Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium: http://www.aashe.org/heasc/
• North American Alliance for Green Education (student group): http://www.naage.org/
• Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Sustainability in Higher Education: http://www.scup.org/resources/topic_issue/sustainability.html
• US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development: http://www.uspartnership.org/
• College Sustainability Report Card 2008: http://www.endowmentinstitute.org/sustainability/
• League for Innovation in the Community College Sustainability web site: http://www.league.org/league/projects/sustainability/

Sustainability Questionnaires  

• Sustainability Questionnaire Categories: http://www.ulsf.org/programs_saq_chart.htm

Green IT  

• Gartner's Top Ten Strategic Technologies for 2008 (Green IT is #1)
• What is Green IT – Part 1: http://energypriorities.com/entries/2007/06/what_is_green_it_data_centers.php
• The Green Grid: http://www.thegreengrid.org/home
• Five Steps to Green IT: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2195286,00.asp
• Green IT: Fatigue Setting in Already?: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6582
• Green IT: Understanding its Role and Opportunities: http://www.idc.com/research/greenit.jsp
• It’s Not Easy Being Green: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2007/tc20070514_061202.htm
• Green IT: Minimizing the Environmental Footprint of Your Technology Systems: http://www.netcorps.org/press-room/netcorps-blog/archive/2007/11/01/green-it
• Green IT: Determining the Business Case for Action (Conference agenda)
• Green IT Strategies Stifled by Inertia: http://www.news.com/Green-IT-strategies-stifled-by-inertia/2100-11392_3-6210589.html
• Eight Ways to Green Your Existing Data Center: http://www.techworld.com/green-it/features/index.cfm?featureID=3795&pagtype=samecatsamechan
• Integrating Sustainability Across the Campus: http://www.arnoldcreekproductions.com/SustainabilityHigherEducation.htm
• Gibson, Stan. How Green is Your IT Valley? eWeek Insight, pp. 46-53, January 21, 2008 
• Companies put off by green IT cost, by Maxwell Cooter, TechWorld, March 14, 2008: http://www.techworld.com/green-it/news/index.cfm?newsid=11716
• Green IT mindshift taking hold, research shows, by Linda Tucci, February 19, 2008, SearchCIO.com:  http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1301332,00.html
• The ROI of Green IT, InfoWorld, March 27, 2008: http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2008/03/recession_green.html?source=rss
• "Tips for a Leaner, Greener Desktop: Energy efficiency isn't just for the data center. Here's how to cut back on power and expense in the front office," by Robert L. Mitchell, Computerworld, Vol. 42, No. 6, February 4, 2008, pp. 20 - 24.
• Simply Green--A Few Steps in the Right Direction Toward Integrating Sustainability into Public Sector IT, by Paul W. Taylor, A Green Paper from the Center for Digital Government: http://www.sun.com/solutions/documents/white-papers/gv_simplygreen.pdf
• Computer Recycling, by Mark Kyrnin, About.com: http://compreviews.about.com/od/general/a/PCRecycling.htm
• Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT):  http://www.epeat.net/

Examples of Sustainability and Green IT in Higher Education

• Working Green at MIT: http://web.mit.edu/workinggreen/about/index.html
• MIT TechnoCycle (See Electronics and TechnoCycle): http://web.mit.edu/workinggreen/reuse/recycle.html#elec
• University at Buffalo, Environmental Stewardship and the Green Campus: http://wings.buffalo.edu/ubgreen/content/resources/envstewardship.html#sec16a
• Brown University's "Brown is Green" (BIG) initiative: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/
• RIT (Rochester Institute for Technology) Golisano Institute for Sustainability: http://www.sustainability.rit.edu/

Green IT Events

• Green IT: IT's Easy Being Green Conference (April 2008) Hosted by the New York State FORUM's IT Greening Committee and NYSERDA: http://www.nysforum.org/events/itgreening
• Greening of the Campus IV Conference Program 2007: http://www.uspartnership.org/ 
• League for Innovation Sustainability Symposium (October 2007) Hosted by Lane Community College:   http://www.league.org/league/projects/sustainability/symposium.cfm