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Greening Your Business Through TechnologyLeading you towards a sustainable future through GreenIT

Version: V1.0 © Copyright AIIA Nov 2009

Contents

Appendix 1: GreenIT Success Factors 2

Appendix 2: GreenIT Best Practices 3

Appendix 3: Hazardous Materials in IT Equipment 8

Appendix 4: Data Centre Optimisation 9

Appendix 5: Carbon Management Software 10

Appendix 6: Power Management Software 24

Appendix 7: Print Management Software 27

Appendix 8: Calculators & Toolkits 28

Appendix 9: Industry Organisations and Accreditation Programs 29

Appendix 10: Vendor Green Portals 34

Appendix 11: Local Green Directories 35

Appendix 12: Local Green Research 37

Appendix 13: GreenIT News 38

Appendix 14: Local GreenIT Forms 41

Appendix 15: Local GreenIT Training and Certification Programs 42

Appendix 16: Further Reading on GreenIT 44

Appendix 17: Sustainability Performance Indicators 45

Appendix 18: AIIA GreenIT Quick Reference Guide – Featured Organisations 47

Appendix 19: List of eBook References 51

Please note: text appearing in orange indicates hyperlinks for your reference

Appendix 1: GreenIT Success FactorsThe following factors need to be considered when implementing a GreenIT project to ensure that it will be a success.

Provide Enablers • Embedded within corporate strategy

• Senior Champions

• Engaging and involving employees

• Dedicating resources to the issue

• Quantifiable targets and performance reporting

• Communicating and celebrating successes

• Engaging and involving the community

• Communication of fit within overall strategy and program

• Information and communication technology

Eliminate Barriers • Insufficient resource/budget

• Corporate commitment

• Insufficient priority / importance

• Unclear targets

• Culture

• Legacy technology infrastructure

• Requirement for short term ROI

• Inability to monitor/measure progress

• Knowledge / Understanding

Backup initiatives with required support

• Recognised standards

• Relevant research

• Independent advice

• Training

• Peer support group

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Appendix 2: GreenIT Best Practices Since the first AIIA Sustainable Futures Forum in 2007, there has been a growing awareness of the different GreenIT best practices that can be adopted by organisations to reduce carbon emissions. These have been captured at a high level and cover the following main areas:

1. Governance

2. Procurement

3. Stewardship

4. IT Infrastructure

5. Print Management

6. Power Management

7. Managed Services

8. Business Process Re-engineering

When considering each of the following best practices, it’s important to put it into context of the current situation of your organisation. Not all of them will be relevant due to the size of your organisation and some may need to be postponed for future implementation as your organisation may not be ready for them yet. To assist with identifying at what stage its best to adopt these best practices into your organisation, each point has been correlated with the five pillar framework that is described in Section 4.3 – Information Technology – Implementing GreenIT products and services. In summary, the five pillars are:

• Pillar 1: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, waste and water use within the span of control of the ICT department.

• Pillar 2: ICT department contribution to measuring and reporting enterprise greenhouse gas emissions, waste and water use.

• Pillar 3: ICT department contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste and water use within core enterprise processes.

• Pillar 4: ICT department contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste and water use within the enterprise value chain.

• Pillar 5: ICT department contribution to business transformation necessary for a carbon economy.

The ‘GreenIT Best Practices’ list is a high level framework. It is possible that other factors could be considered on this list and AIIA sees this evolving over time – with input from other organisations.

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Topic Points for consideration Pillar

GreenIT Policy • IT equipment procurement

• Print management

• Phone/video conferencing

• IT refresh cycles

• Renewable power

• Energy consumption

• Power management

1

Carbon Audit • Life cycle analysis

• Carbon calculation boundaries

• Carbon footprint

• Ongoing audits

1

Environmental Policy

• Specific ‘GreenIT’ policy

• Carbon neutral

• Disclosure of policy, initiatives and CO2 emissions

2

Accountability Ownership

• Role with responsibility for ensuring environmental policy is adopted

KPIs

• Energy usage/carbon footprint for desktop, servers, data centre, paper usage and printers

• IT carbon footprint reduction targets established, building efficiency targets established

• Reduction of carbon intensity

Balanced Scorecard

• Implemented into management reporting

Triple Bottom Line (TBL) / Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) adaptation

• Implemented into management reporting

Reporting, Monitoring and Analysis

• Frequency

• Achievements

• External / Internal

3

Management Systems

Environmental and resource efficiency plan (EREP)

• Integrated into management reporting

Environmental Management System (EMS)

• Integrated into management reporting

3

Governance

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Procurement

Stewardship

Refer to Appendix 3: Hazardous Materials in IT equipment for more information on why it is important that eWaste is correctly disposed of.

Topic Points for consideration Pillar

Tender Process • Contractual requirements

• Supplier environmental policy

• Supplier carbon footprint

• Supplier carbon reduction initiatives

3

Standards • Energy star ratings

• Suppliers equipment ratings

• Certification (EPEAT, RoHS)

3

Equipment selection

• Laptop vs desktops vs virtual desktop

• Multi-function devices

• LCD monitors

3

Carbon Offsets • EPA Carbon Management Principles 3

Topic Points for consideration Pillar

eWaste disposal • Computers and peripheral devices

• Mobile phones

• Printer cartridges included

• Utilise ByteBack program

1

eWaste disposal • Options for end of life

• Equipment disposed of environmentally

• Extend lifespan of equipment

• Ensure does not go to landfill

• Audit equipment disposal suppliers

4

Remarketing • Refurbish and resale as second-hand 5

eWaste collection

• Collect eWaste from within supply chain 5

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IT Infrastructure

Print Management

Topic Points for consideration Pillar

Hardware upgrade / consolidation / virtualisation

• Efficiency gains of new equipment

• Thin clients

• Number of servers to justify virtualisation

• Virtual desktops

1

Data centre optimisation

In Summary, the main actions are to:

• Optimise air management

• Optimal size

• Optimal configuration

Further information and resources can be found in Appendix 4: Data Centre Optimisation.

Other considerations to include are:

• Power factor/Harmonics

• Distance from power generator to minimise transfer losses

• Power cogeneration

• Cooling capacity requirements

• Space capacity requirements

• Power capacity requirements

• Room density

• Power supply/UPS optimisation

• Room temperature and humidity

• Optimising air flow

• Redundancy (Tier III, Tier II, Tier IV topology - Reduce data duplicity / replication)

• Optical cabling

1

Storage devices • SAN

• Hybrid storage devices (HDD, optical, SATA)

• Outsourcing hard storage or external supplier

1

Communications • Mobile / VOIP phone

• Phone / Video conferences

• Online chat / discussion forums / Wikis (Web 2.0)

• Mobile communications devices

3

Workforce mobility / flexibility

• Number of devices per floor

• Print on demand

• Double side printing

• Portable computing devices including PDAs, laptops, innovative portable devices, etc.

3

Topic Points for consideration Pillar

Multi-function devices

• Computers and peripheral devices

• Printer cartridges

3

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Power Management

Managed Service

Business Process Re-engineering

Topic Points for consideration Pillar

Power Supplies • Ensure high efficiency ratings 1

Desktops • Power management settings

• Screen savers

• Auto shutdown / power-on

1

Smart eMeters • Monitoring of power usage and trend analysis 2

Software • Operating software enabled power management

• 3rd party software at desktop level.

Printers • Reduce operational hours 3

Topic Points for consideration Pillar

Off-shoring • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) 4

Outsourcing • Move to hosted datacentre 4

Cloud Computing

• SaaS – software as a service

• PaaS – platform as a service

• IaaS – infrastructure as a service

4

Topic Points for consideration Pillar

eLearning Identify courses that can be provided on-demand with an eLearning supplier

3

eServices • C2B – Customer to Business

• B2B – Business to Business

• Web portal

• EDI – Electronic Data Interchange

4

Electronic Records

• Reduce paper processing 4

System Integration

• Automate monitoring and logging

• Automate carbon calculation

4

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Appendix 3: Hazardous Materials in IT EquipmentA number of hazardous materials that have significant environmental and health impacts are used in the manufacture of IT equipment. In an effort to minimise the use of these materials, a certification program called the Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive (RoHS) has been established. The directive restricts the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment. These are:

Toxin Health Impacts

Lead (Pb) Lead is a poisonous metal that can damage nervous connections (especially in young children) and cause blood and brain disorders.

Mercury (Hg) Mercury is a heavy metal which is extremely toxic. Specific occupational exposure limits have been established.

Cadmium (Cd) Cadmium and several cadmium-containing compounds are known carcinogens and can induce many types of cancer.

Hexavalent chromium (Cr6+) Hexavalent chromium compounds are genotoxic carcinogens. Chronic inhalation of hexavalent chromium compounds increases the risk of lung cancer (lungs are especially vulnerable, followed by fine capillaries in kidneys and intestine).

Polybrominated biphelyls (PBBs)

Exposure to genetically susceptible mice is known to cause immunotoxicity and disorders related to the central nervous system.

Polybrominated diphynl ether (PBDEs)

Published studies express concern because exposure to PBDEs impairs development of nervous system. PDBEs has also been shown to have hormone disrupting effects, particularly on estrogen and thyroid hormones.

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Appendix 4: Data Centre Optimisationhttp://www.thegreengrid.org http://www.afcom.com

Further reading for information on Data Centre Optimisation is given below:

1. Resource Smart Energy Efficiency Best Practice Guide, Data Centre and IT Facilities – click here.

2. Greening The Data Centre, click here, Richard Hodges.

3. Best Practices for Data Centres: Lessons Learned from Benchmarking 22 Data Centres, click here.Steve Greenberg, Evan Mills, and Bill Tschudi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Peter Rumsey, Rumsey Engineers Bruce Myatt, EYP Mission Critical Facilities

4. Enterprise Server and Data Centre Energy Efficiency Initiatives, click here.

5. Australian Standards AS 2834—1995, Computer accommodation, click here.This is currently being revised. Click here for the group that you can join to make a contribution.

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Organisation Description

Carbon Planet A global full-spectrum carbon management company, Carbon Planet brings together scientific expertise, industry experience and business insights to deliver an integrated suite of carbon management services including:

• Audit & Advisory: Greenhouse gas emissions assessment, energy reduction and carbon management services

• G3MS (Greenhouse Emissions Measure Manage Minimise Suite): A comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions software package that accurately collects, analyses and reports the greenhouse gas emissions of a business

• Carbon Commerce: Carbon origination and trading including scientific analysis and consultancy to facilitate the creation of carbon credits from valid projects, aiding business to maximise commercial opportunities

• My Carbon Planet: Inspiration, education and facilitation of carbon management for individuals.

Carbon View CarbonView™ is the first solution provider in the world to offer organisations a comprehensive carbon management solution.

CarbonView’s consultants have an in-depth knowledge of carbon accounting, carbon reduction and offset programs and a background in supply chain management. Along with this expertise is the comprehensive software which is compliant with government legislations that can help businesses measure, monitor and optimise their carbon footprint on a national or international level.

Measure – Central location for activity data entry and conversion to carbon footprint data

Monitor – Central location for carbon reporting and analysis

Optimise – Assists businesses in developing strategies around the new carbon economy

CarbonView’s aim is to provide solutions that offer insight and control into business processes, to help give businesses a competitive edge in operating their business.

Appendix 5: Carbon Management Software

Australia

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Organisation Description

Energetics Energetics is a specialist management consultancy in the business of climate change. In partnership with our clients, we help them transition to a carbon-constrained environment by managing risks, achieving cost reductions and identifying new opportunities. Our aim is to achieve climate change commitment from the top to the bottom line.

Energetics has over time built up substantial intellectual assets. Some of this know-how and experience has been developed into our own suite of software tools that can be used by organisations to support continuous improvement resource management programs. These tools are supported by our highly experienced team of consultants.

We also partner with global providers in the area of data collection and management and offer leading solutions to our clients.

Our tools and services include:

• CarbonScope™ Information Collection, Management and Reporting suite CarbonScope™ enables businesses to gather data, understand and manage their environmental metrics and associated costs – accurately, cost effectively and quickly. CarbonScope™ tracks energy, water, carbon emissions and other key environmental information and helps you save money and reduce consumption and emissions, whilst also ensuring high quality auditable data, and dynamic reporting. As a solution suite, CarbonScope enables businesses to get a clear view of their carbon and environmental risks and opportunities and develop, monitor and manage the best strategies to deal with these.

• One-2-Five® Energy

• One-2-Five® Water

• One-2-Five® Sustainability

• Energy Achiever®

• Water Achiever®

• Eco Achiever®

• Energy Challenger®

Envirochart EnviroChart is a single centralised system designed to capture, analyse and report energy, waste and water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and production metrics. EnviroChart is a comprehensive environment reporting solution that provides business with tools and utilities to:

• Track inputs, emissions and intensities

• Manage abatement projects

• Reduce compliance costs

• Manage their impact on the environment

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Organisation Description

GreenBizCheck GreenBizCheck is a global technology-based environmental certification program primarily for the services industry sector. It helps companies to implement sustainable environmental practices which save money, conserve energy, water & resources and minimise waste.

GreenBizCheck provides a fast, affordable, world-leading certification program Scrutinised by universities, environmental agencies, governments and major corporations that maximises your green credentials with a 100percent money back guarantee.

What is provided

• Corporate environmental certification

• 140+ point, online, best practice checklist

• Comprehensive report with action plan

Ideas International

Server CAR (Consolidation Analysis Resource)

Ideas International (IDEAS), a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:IDE), is the leading global supplier of comparative intelligence on enterprise infrastructure.

Our services enable end users to save time and make better-informed decisions when selecting an IT vendor, planning a dataCentre consolidation, or assessing the power and carbon footprint of their IT infrastructure. They also assist the leading global IT vendors with competitive pricing, positioning, marketing, and sales.

Ideas International’s (IDEAS) web-based Server CAR (Consolidation Analysis Resource) is an online tool that rapidly analyses server consolidation scenarios with a key focus on deriving and quantifying footprint, energy, and carbon emissions reductions.

ILOG ILOG

LogicNet Plus XE

Innovative solutions from IBM ILOG, help thousands of industry leaders worldwide make crucial business decisions while increasing agility, cutting costs and slashing schedules. For over two decades, ILOG has developed software and technologies that have helped organisations build unparalleled applications. Our research and development team is committed to delivering the most advanced products available to help you stay competitive and profitable; and IBM Professional Services can create a range of custom solutions that meet your individual needs.

ILOG LogicNet Plus XE is a network design and planning solution that combines the advanced optimisation technology of ILOG CPLEX with an easy-to-use graphical user interface to manage the world’s most complex supply chains. Training and baseline results can typically be completed within 90-days.

ILOG LogicNet Plus XE facilitates quick analysis of the tradeoffs between production, warehousing, transportation costs, carbon footprint, and service requirements; as well as the calculation of the optimal network configuration for different cost and service objectives. A model’s solutions can be viewed, compared and easily exported to tables and graphs for presentations and further analysis.

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Organisation Description

Intelex

Greenhouse Gas Emission Management

Additional information go to Intelex or contact our Australian distributor at Graham A Brown & Associates

Intelligent Pathways

Carbon Insight

Intelligent Pathways is an Australian owned enterprise application and integration specialist delivering an extensive portfolio of internet-based commercial and bespoke software and support services to government and private sector enterprises throughout the Asia Pacific.

As Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) integration professionals, we use the Oracle SOA Suite of products to provide both consultancy and software development services for SOA based projects.

Carbon Insight is a powerful, easy-to-use tool that allows you to input data, establish baselines and targets, and test ‘what-if’ scenarios to help you reduce your carbon emissions.

Carbon Insight has been designed to meet government calculation and reporting guidelines and can be used by both consultants and managers responsible for business and environmental reporting.

Little Green Genie Little Green Genie is a tiny piece of software that measures how much you use your computer and then calculates the amount of carbon your are emitting as a direct result of that usage. As you use your computer the software automatically reduces your pre-purchased carbon credit.

Logica

Carbon Sim – Emission Logic

Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential – enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk. It applies its deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build leadership positions in their markets.

CarbonSim provides tailored software solutions that allow companies to track and manage their greenhouse gas emissions and compliance under various regulatory regimes, and to simulate the introduction of different greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes.

Emissions Logic is the leading emissions management, trading and compliance solution from CarbonSim. Corporations around the world can use Emissions Logic to track their emissions footprint, manage their emission trading activities, meet their reporting needs and comply with environmental regulation.

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Organisation Description

Oracle

Ndevr

For almost 30 years, Oracle has been helping customers like you manage your business systems and information with reliable, secure, and integrated technologies.

Today, Oracle is the largest business software company in the world, with more than 320,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune Global 100—and supports these customer in more than 145 countries.

Ndevr has created GHG Accounting Software in response to the National Greenhouse Energy Reporting (NGER) Act 2007.

Ndevr Greenhouse Emissions Reporting for NGER enables you to;

• Capture data at the facility level

• Report facility data separately and report data for all facilities under the control of the corporation

• Report scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions separately or in any combination Report at the ANZSIC level

• Report on individual emission types separately

• Store date related emission factors for recalculation usage

• Easily change emission factors as they change annually Incorporate targets for different emission types

• Maintain Data Security, Accuracy and Transparency

• Maintain Data Integrity

• No Duplication of Data

• Minimal Interruption to Existing Business Processes

PE International

Sofi Software

PE Australia offers a wide range of custom-tailored services in areas ranging from Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Accounting, as well as the development of sustainability strategies. PE Australia, established in 2006 is a subsidiary of PE International, the world’s leading Life Cycle Analysis and Sustainability group.

Sofi Software provides outstanding and world-leading software solutions for all types of corporate sustainability issues, helping companies to walk a more sustainable path.

Solutions for:

• Environmental management

• Sustainability management/Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

• Corporate Carbon Footprinting

• Emissions management

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Organisation Description

PEL Group

PAE Holmes

Pacific Environment Limited (PEL) is an environmental science and technology company trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) as ASX Code: PEH. Our mission is to help organisations manage their ongoing environmental concerns.

PAEHolmes is at the forefront of air quality assessment and management in Australia. Our primary aim is to help organisations manage their emissions to air by offering innovative, cost-effective and practical solutions.

Our services can help organisations:

• Gain licenses and development approvals

• Address notices from environmental protection agencies

• Comply with regulations

• Report on emissions

• Resolve complaints

• Carry out environmental impact studies

• Assess impact of odour

• Collect, process and report data

• Develop environment management strategies and policies

• Implement environmental programs

• Develop greenhouse gas management strategies

• Identify and implement greenhouse emission trading opportunities.

Prima Consulting

Sustainability sCO2recard

Prima Consulting works with Australian business and government to improve their competitive advantage by integrating sustainability as a core strategy.

Prima Consulting can facilitate an integrated approach between sustainability initiatives and other corporate strategic objectives that address issues related to:

• Effort and complexity of sustainability reporting & sustainability performance

• Integrating sustainability initiatives with existing organisational strategic objectives.

• Identifying opportunities to improve processes and determine new product and services offerings with sustainability in mind.

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Organisation Description

SAP

SAP Solutions for Sustainability

As the world’s leading provider of business software*, SAP delivers products and services that help accelerate business innovation for our customers. We believe that doing so will unleash growth and create significant new value – for our customers, SAP and ultimately entire industries and the economy at large. Today, customers in more than 120 countries run SAP applications – from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organisations.

SAP Solutions for Sustainability

Whether starting a sustainability plan or adjusting a strategy that is already in place, sustainability requires businesses to reconsider their practices and consider a whole new set of risks and opportunities concerning socio-economic, environmental, safety, and health issues.

http://www.sap.com/australia/solutions/executiveview/sustainability/index.epx

http://www.sapsustainabilityreport.com/

SRA Information Technology

SRA Environmental

SRA Information Technology is a software development company which uses IT to provide better environmental outcomes. SRA’s flagship product, EnviroSys, is a comprehensive enterprise platform for corporate sustainability reporting which provides maximum flexibility as a key design feature. EnviroSys enables management and understanding of an organisation’s total environmental footprint in an integrated way, handling energy, greenhouse gases, water, weather and all pollutant and emission information equally well and providing integrated reporting at a corporate level. EnviroSys is being used domestically and internationally by a number of large corporate and government organisations.

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Organisation Description

SAS

Sustainability Management

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

Sustainability Management

SAS for Sustainability Management enables an organization to measure, manage and report on the Triple Bottom Line – environmental, social and economic indicators – and determine business strategies that reduce risk and increase shareholder value. With SAS you can:

• Measure key sustainability activities using industry-accepted methodologies and protocols. You can trust the quality of data and resulting analysis from SAS’ award-winning data integration and analytics capabilities, which leverage your existing investments in operational systems and databases.

• Report ongoing performance to ensure transparency with key stakeholders and compliance with regulatory agencies. By establishing an integrated, consistent source of quality information, you can bind initiatives to a common sustainability framework that allows alignment across all lines of business – from the water treatment facility to the data Centre (see ‘Focus on GreenIT’).

• Improve performance by identifying the metrics that have the greatest impact on goal attainment so you can make the most informed strategic decisions. Apply the power of SAS optimisation, forecasting and data mining capabilities to analyse scenarios and run simulations to improve response and successful strategy execution.

• Manage and forecast the finances and resources needed to achieve the desired outcomes across the enterprise and within each department. Prioritise organizational strategies and align investments in new product innovation, program development and talent accordingly. Establish scorecards and strategy maps driven by the sustainability goals of the organization.

• Accessing multiple data sources is a strength of this offering and is very complete when managing your end to end sustainability and carbon management compliance, assurance, risk and governance needs.

Tradeslot

Carbon Navigator

Tradeslot is a leading provider of allocation mechanism technology and carbon management software. Tradeslot adopted Skype and Citrix Go-To-Meeting as a cost effective way to manage international enquiries.

CarbonNavigator provides assistance with the planning and decision making associated with carbon footprinting and the financial aspects carbon management.

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Overseas

Organisation Description

Carbon Networks The Carbonetworks Performance Management Platform helps companies run their Energy, GHG, and Sustainability initiatives like a business – helping provide a consolidated corporate scorecard for measuring performance. Our modular approach enables companies of all sizes to start managing and reducing their carbon and energy inventories quickly and easily. We integrate with hundreds of systems, from excel-based solutions to legacy, ERP, and in-house software, so you don’t have to replace your existing data systems. Our platform helps you evaluate your current inventories, plan for reductions based on solid ROI analysis, then execute and optimise your plan by connecting to the world’s largest carbon and energy management network.

Copyright Carbonetworks

Cerc

Emissions Inventory Tool (EMIT)

Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC) was established in 1986 with the aim of making use of new developments in environmental research from Cambridge University and elsewhere for practical purposes.

EMIT is an Emissions Inventory Tool. EMIT can be used to store, manipulate and assess emissions data from a variety of sources.

Emissions data held in EMIT can be used for:

• Local air pollution studies of toxic pollutants;

• Greenhouse Gas emissions inventories;

• Estimating emissions for use in IPPC applications; and

• Road traffic noise mapping studies.

EMIT is particularly useful for emission-reduction scenario testing, for example to investigate the effect of Low Emission Zones and Home Zones in urban areas, and ways of reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions as a step towards meeting Agenda 21 or Kyoto targets.

Connection Research At the time of printing, AIIA member, Connection Research, an Australian market research and consultancy company specialising in analysis of sustainability issues, was planning to releasing a new world-wide comprehensive Carbon Emissions Management Software Census (CEMSUS) in November 2009.

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Organisation Description

credit 360 credit360 is a unique web-based CSR and sustainability data management and communication system, designed by corporate responsibility and sustainability specialists to meet the requirements of global leaders in environmental management, social accountability, stakeholder engagement and community involvement.

credit360 helps organisations with the process of gathering diverse environmental, social, and community data from across the business, seamlessly aggregating it for analysis and communication to your stakeholder audiences through printed and web based media.

credit360 manages carbon for a number of multinational organisations with our system and easily integrates evolving GhG standards and guidelines within the management systems we supply.

Enablon

GHG-MS

Enablon is one of the world’s leading providers of Corporate Responsibility and QEHS software solutions with recognized expertise in Governance, Risk & Compliance.

As a specialist in corporate governance, Enablon offers management and performance software solutions for:

• Corporate responsibility and QEHS management

• Risk management and internal control

• Corporate governance and legal management

Enablon’s GHG-MS is a comprehensive offering which allows companies to monitor, forecast and manage their GHG emissions. This is accomplished in part through the solution’s native integration of all key global GHG standards and protocols. For the Australian market, the National Greenhouse Accounts (NGA) emission factors are embedded and maintained within the system, thereby enabling companies to meet the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) act’s requirements.

The solution includes the following functionalities and benefits:

• Accurate reporting and accounting of GHG emissions

• Automated collection of emission data from multiple sources

• Management of emission quotas, goals and objectives

• Simulation and scenarios analysis

• Carbon offset and energy reduction initiative management

Based on:

• Compliance with market standards and regional regulations

• Integrated emission factors database

• WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions coverage

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Organisation Description

Enviance In an era where the price of carbon will redefine business, Enviance is the only proven software supplier that uses the power of the Internet to unlock the data needed for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions management, carbon accounting, regulatory compliance and sustainability programs. The Enviance System is built by environmental, health and safety (EHS) compliance experts using an open platform optimised to consolidate and manage complex information often held in silos across the enterprise and throughout the supply chain. Corporate executives and those with specific responsibility for EHS in Fortune 1000 companies and government organisations have relied on Enviance to manage GHG data and a wide range of regulatory compliance risks for nearly a decade.Leading organisations trust Enviance to help them reduce the cost and time of managing compliance, sustainability and GHG activities, retain institutional knowledge, and confidently certify compliance. Founded in 1999, privately held Enviance is based in Carlsbad, California.

Our customers use the Enviance System to solve the most pressing problems:

• GHG and Carbon Accounting

• Sustainability and CSR

• Environmental Regulatory Compliance

• Health & Safety

• Enterprise Performance Management

Essential Software Services

Carbon Management Solution

ESS is the leading provider of Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) and Crisis Management sustainability software.

The ESS GHG/Carbon Management Solution™ is an integrated platform with powerful tools to help your business manage and communicate GHG data for products, supply chain and facilities from the plant floor to the boardroom.

It enables organisations to:

• Support data collection and reporting for a verifiable carbon emissions inventory;

• Enable strategy development with powerful business intelligence and analysis tools; and

• Help users execute carbon strategies with performance metrics, tasking and communications.

Greenstone Carbon Management

Greenstone is a specialist carbon solutions company. We work in partnership with major commercial and public sector organisations to measure, manage and mitigate their carbon emissions to realise business and financial benefits. Our solutions comprise both consulting advice and access to a suite of carbon accounting software, Acco2unt. Greenstone Acco2unt product suite allows organisations to take control of their carbon management through:

• CO2 measurement and management

• Reduction

• Reporting and tracking of emission data

• Scenario planning and ROI

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Organisation Description

IHS

ESP

IHS has been helping companies solve their most challenging environmental and sustainability data management problems since 1992. IHS software solutions help companies around the world address EHS and sustainability management from the facility level to the corporate level. IHS’s greenhouse gas management solutions have been deployed since 2002 and are currently in use in thousands of facilities around the world to help companies manage everything from emissions inventories to emissions trading. The IHS greenhouse gas management software solutions are part of a suite of products and services offered by IHS to help companies manage their greenhouse gas programs from strategic planning to operations to emissions trading. The IHS climate change management solutions include enterprise software solutions, strategic advisory services from IHS CERA, emissions price forecasting data from IHS Global Insight, IHS emissions benchmarking data, and more.

Open Eco OpenEco.org is a global on-line community that provides free, easy-to-use tools to help participants assess, track, and compare energy performance, share proven best practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and encourage sustainable innovation.

SRI World Group

One Report

SRI World Group Inc. is a leading provider of social investing and corporate social responsibility information. We pride ourselves at being independent and objective sources of information that empower individuals and institutions.

OneReport is an easy-to-use, comprehensive, online reporting solution that:

• Reduces your overall cost of reporting

• Streamlines your sustainability reporting process

• Enables your company to deliver more timely and accurate information to the research and rating agencies your company deems important

T3 T3 is dedicated to providing sustainable, technology-based Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) solutions that facilitate environmental compliance, streamline recordkeeping and reporting, and support profitable business growth.

Technidata

Environmental Performance Solutions

TechniData Environmental Performance Solutions (EP) support a business compliance management that covers all regulatory requirements in the environmental domain relating to air, water and waste. This enables the conditions of an operating permit for a single facility to be addressed with the same level of efficiency as a group-wide rollout and monitoring of company specific rules and performance indicators.

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Organisation Description

The Climate Registry

Climate Registry Information System

THE CLIMATE REGISTRY is a nonprofit organization that provides meaningful information to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Registry establishes consistent, transparent standards throughout North America for businesses and governments to calculate, verify and publicly report their carbon footprints in a single, unified registry.

The Climate Registry Information System (CRIS) is The Registry’s online greenhouse gas (GHG) calculation, reporting, and verification tool. CRIS also provides public access to The Registry’s verified emission reports.

CRIS is utilized by the following stakeholders:

• Members: To calculate and/or report their emissions to The Registry

• Verifiers: To review and assess a Members’ annual emissions

• Public: To review verified emission reports

• Registry: To manage and administer the annual reporting process

Tradeslot

Carbon Navigator

Tradeslot is a leading provider of allocation mechanism technology and carbon management software. Tradeslot adopted Skype and Citrix Go-To-Meeting as a cost effective way to manage international enquiries.

CarbonNavigator provides assistance with the planning and decision making associated with carbon footprinting and the financial aspects carbon management.

Verisae Verisae delivers a powerful suite of web-based process management solutions for facilities, the assets in those facilities, the energy those assets consume, the carbon emissions they emit, and the people who manage & maintain them.

Sustainable Resource Planning™ (SRP) Platform from Verisae, Inc.

Verisae’s Sustainable Resource Planning (SRP)™ platform provides asset, energy, and carbon management products integrated into a single technology platform. Our software as a service (SaaS) sustainability platform meets the unique needs of distributed enterprise with assets spanning a large geographic footprint.

What is Sustainable Resource Planning (SRP)™?

The SRP configurable products help manage facility operations, the assets in those facilities, the energy those assets consume, the carbon emissions they emit, and the technicians & consultants who service them. To engage in on-demand sustainability, organisations must tap source data from the asset level across disparate processes. Verisae defines corporate sustainability as the ability to take action against energy, carbon, operations, water, and waste management objectives.

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Organisation Description

Verisae Verisae built the sustainability platform with specific goals in mind.

• To reduce the total cost of ownership for assets across a distributed enterprise.

• To increase control of energy consuming assets and equipment globally.

• To bring visibility to the everyday processes hidden in business silos.

• To effectively measure, monitor, and manage enterprise carbon emissions.

SRP supports the primary functions of corporate sustainability. By combining multiple business processes and systems into a central database running on a flexible workflow engine, Verisae is defining the methods, models, and tactics to definition and to control the sustainable enterprise. Organisations must be empowered to make corporate sustainability actionable.

Enterprise Carbon Accounting Solutions from Verisae, Inc.

Verisae’s Sustainable Resource Planning (SRP) platform allows for carbon accountability to several groups within a distributed organization. The board, shareholders, customers, and employees can gain visibility into Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and carbon emissions management processes globally Enterprise Emissions Tracking (EET) Product

Verisae helps enterprises measure, monitor, and manage carbon emissions across a distributed enterprise. Organisations can take steps today to establish sustainability initiatives and benefit bottom line revenues through energy and carbon emission reduction efforts Verisae’s carbon emission products automate the process of capturing and maintaining up to date information though our patented technology. The EET platform makes tracking the intricacies’ of carbon emissions utilizing globally accepted methodologies put forth by ISO standard 14065, the World Resources Institute, The Climate Registry, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Verisae eliminates the complexities of carbon emissions data capture across the entire enterprise. We have insight into energy consumption, utility bills processing, fleet management, and sustainable business operations. Verisae helps the distributed enterprise calculate carbon emissions across many disparate asset. Customers leverage a single integrated IT platform to manage carbon emissions.

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Organisation Description

1E

Nightwatchman

1E is a specialist global provider of Windows Systems Management software and services solutions that enable enterprises to implement agile, world-class IT infrastructures. Our solutions leverage Microsoft System Centre & Systems Management Server (SMS Management & Technology) technologies to help clients operate highly automated server and desktop deployment and management systems.

NightWatchman is the world leading PC power management solution for companies both large and small. Simple and quick to implement and with proven accuracy, it enables significant cost savings by applying effective PC power management that won’t slow your business down.

Belkin

Energy Saving Surge Protector

Belkin International, Inc. offers an extensive range of innovations designed to give computer and consumer electronics users seamless integration in their homes, cars, and on the go.

Belkin’s Conserve Energy-Saving Surge Protector conveniently minimizes standby power by enabling you to turn off the power to multiple devices with just one click of the remote switch. The remote switch easily cuts off or activates the power that flows to devices plugged into Conserve’s Switchable outlets, while devices such as DVRs or Routers can be plugged into the Always-On outlets, since they require a continuous power supply.

Big Fix BigFix high performance security and systems management enables customers to securely manage their global IT infrastructures faster, more accurately, resulting in improved governance, control, visibility, and business agility

BigFix provides a scalable and flexible approach to computer power management, ensuring that IT can do its job and business operations are not disrupted.

Enterprise Infrastructure Partners

Enterprise Infrastructure Partners, LLC has again reduced the cost of doing business and brought value to our customers by introducing eiPower Saver Solution. Designed by former Notification Core engineers, certified, authorised consultants with years of expertise using Symantec/Altiris solutions, eiPower Saver Solution is another milestone in our company evolution and a great service to our many long term customers.

Future Range Easy to install (no electrician required) and easy to operate, FutureSwitch fits between your power board and your power point, operated by a wireless remote button. Enjoy peace of mind and lower power bills with Future Switch. It’s the affordable Australian innovation helping you switch off waste and switch on to saving energy and money.

Greentrac Event Zero Greentrac promotes corporate social and environmental awareness and cost efficiency. The product offers a complete view of your corporate PC and peripherals energy usage, with motivational tools for the individual employee to save energy.

Appendix 6: Power Management Software

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Organisation Description

Green Innovation

PowerMan Power Manager

GreenInnovation represents innovative solutions to address the challenges of sustainable business.

Data Synergy PowerMAN Power Manager gives you unparallelled control over your IT energy consumption.

PowerMAN is highly flexible and allows different energy reduction strategies to be simply and quickly deployed to different groups of user and computers.

PowerMAN fully integrates with Microsoft Windows® Server infrastructure and can be deployed using built-in Windows tools or similar. Typically PowerMAN can be:

• Deployed in less than one hour to an entire site

• Reporting on site wide energy usage within 24 hours

• Providing measurable savings within days

PowerMAN is suitable for enterprises with 100 computers or greater. It is particularly suitable for organisations that have equipment distributed across multiple locations such as larger organisations, universities and other public sector bodies. A typcial PowerMAN installation is 500 or more computers.

SURVEYOR is an easy-to-use software utility that allows you to measure, manage, and reduce your network’s energy consumption, saving money and lowering your network’s total cost of ownership. SURVEYOR adds new options to the Energy Star settings in your PCs, making this functionality more accessible and dynamic and allowing you to easily implement network-wide best practices that balance user productivity and energy efficiency.

P3 International

Kill a Watt

P3 International is a privately owned manufacturer of solution oriented consumer products. For the last twenty years we have strived to develop products that are easy to use and ahead of their time. Thanks to our customer-centric attitude and support from our clients, we have experienced steady growth over the past decade.

Electricity bill are rising. Now you can cut down on costs and find out what appliances are actually worth keeping plugged in. Simply connect these appliances to the Kill A Watt™, and it will assess how efficient they really are. Large LCD display will count consumption by the Killowatt-hour, same as your local utility. You can calculate your electrical expenses by the day, week, month, even an entire year. Also check the quality of your power by monitoring Voltage, Line Frequency, and Power Factor.

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TrickleStar

TrickleSwitch

TrickleStar™ develops affordable, simple and easy to use products, which help everyday people, reduce energy consumption in their homes and workplaces.

TrickleStar’s current products include TV and PC TrickleSavers. These are simple devices which can be used with existing power-strips to switch off peripheral devices when a TV or PC is switched off – significantly reducing the amount of standby power waste.

Utiligy

Intermoco

Utiligy has a core business focus of measuring, monitoring, managing and mitigating water and energy consumption, to provide a holistic management solution.

Utiligy was founded on the basis of an industry need that was not being met by existing suppliers

Intermoco is an Australian public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (Code: INT) based in Melbourne. The company is a leader in the provision of remote monitoring and control technology solutions through its Utiligy brand.

Verdiem Verdiem provides enterprise software solutions to reduce energy consumption of PC networks. Its SURVEYOR software increases business profitability and sustainability by monitoring, measuring and managing IT energy use and related greenhouse gas emissions. The company’s relationships with technology and energy efficiency leaders help it to deliver best-in-class solutions to global businesses and individuals.

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Organisation Description

Green Innovation

GreenPrint

TonerSaver

GreenInnovation represents innovative solutions to address the challenges of sustainable business.

GreenPrint is designed to save you money and help the environment by preventing waste pages from being printed. GreenPrint analyses the content of each print job for pages that have wasteful characteristics. These are the pages with just a banner ad, URL footnote etc. It also allows you to very quickly add and remove pages from your print job, without having to return to the original application.

ecoPrint2 Pro Ink and Paper Saver is a printer driver that allows you to control just how much ink you want to use and how you want your pages arranged so that you get the most out of the paper that you have. Cut your ink usage by three fourths, print your whole document on one page or combine pages from different documents – or do all three at once. It can be used with any printer, as well as printers shared over any Local Area Network (LAN).

Paperless Alliance Our aim is to help companies save money and become more efficient by reducing their usage of paper.

Paperless Software

Paper-Less Print Logger

Designed for individuals and FREE to download, Paper-Less Print Logger records all your print data to help you review and improve your personal paper habits.

Paper-Less PRO

Cut your paper waste! Track and manage your printing with Paper-Less Pro - a fully featured print management solution. Free for small business or a 40-day trial.

Print Greener GreenPrint is a simple piece of software which eliminates printer waste, saving the average user almost $100 a year, as well as helping to save millions of trees.

Canon

uniFLOW

Canon Australia is a leading professional and consumer imaging solutions corporation with a comprehensive product line including: digital video cameras, digital compact and SLR cameras, printers, scanners, fax machines and networked multifunction devices.

With a unique modular design and open platform architecture, uniFLOW can be configured to address the specific needs of any business, from large corporate enterprises to pay-for-print shops and in-plant printing facilities.

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Appendix 8: Calculators and Toolkits

1 Degree Carbon Calculator

1e Online Energy Savings Calculator

80 PLUS® calculator

Accenture Green Maturity Assessment

AGIMO Environment Checklist

APC Data Centre Calculator

Carbon Neutral Online Calculator

Dell DataCentre Capacity Planner

Dell Energy Smart Calculator

Environment Defence Fund Paper Calculator

EPA Greenhouse Calculator

EPA Ecological Footprint Calculator

EPA Car Ecometer

Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculator

Fujitsu self assessment

GreenBizCheck Savings Calculator

HP BladeSystem Power Sizer

IBM Carbon Management Analysis Tool to Optimise Supply Chain Efficiencies

IBM Power Load Calculator

IBM System x Power Calculator

IDC’s G.R.A.D.E Certification (IT Asset Disposal)

IDC’s Sustainable Computing Assessment

GreenBox ITAD (IT Asset Disposal) Self Assessment Tool

Journal Systems Power Supply Calculator

Monitor Power Management Calculator

ProLiant Power Calculators

RMIT G-Readiness Index

Sun Fire T2000 Server Power Calculator

Sun Microsystems offers its Space, Watts, and Performance (SWaP) calculator for comparing server performance

SUN Power Calculators

Sustainability Victoria Energy and Greenhouse management Toolkit

Swinburne University Green Office Guide

Telstra Cost Benefit Analysis Calculators

Travel CO2 Emissions Calculator

Trickle Standby Power Calculator

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The Basel Action Network (BAN)

BAN is the world’s only organization focused on confronting the global environmental injustice and economic inefficiency of toxic trade (toxic wastes, products and technologies) and its devastating impacts. Working at the nexus of human rights and environment, we confront the issues of environmental justice at a macro level, preventing disproportionate and unsustainable dumping of the world’s toxic waste and pollution on our global village’s poorest residents. At the same time we actively promote the sustainable and just solutions to our consumption and waste crises – banning waste trade, while promoting green, toxic free and democratic design of consumer products.

Our day-to-day practices are mainly about stopping toxic waste (especially eWaste and ships) trade from rich to poor countries. Our main campaign is called e-Stewards – which will become a 3rd party audited certification for electronics recycling.

Byteback™ Australia Byteback™ is a free computer take-back program to help people dispose of end-of-life equipment, or equipment that has reached the end of its useful life responsibly.

Byteback™ is currently operating in Victoria only. Planet Ark’s Recycling Near You website lists similar programs in other states.

Individuals and small businesses can deposit unwanted computer equipment at Byteback locations.

Clean Energy Council The CEC is a membership based industry association representing the clean energy and energy efficiency sectors. It has more than 300 member companies involved in the development or deployment of clean energy and energy efficiency technologies including wind, hydro, wave and ocean, solar photovoltaic and thermal, bioenergy, solar hot water, geothermal and cogeneration.

Climate Savers Computing The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organisations. The Initiative was started in the spirit of WWFs Climate Savers program and has mobilized more than 500 companies since 2007 to cut carbon dioxide emissions, demonstrating that reducing emissions is good business. Our goal is to promote development, deployment and adoption of smart technologies that can both improve the efficiency of a computers power delivery and reduce the energy consumed when the computer is in an inactive state.

Climate Institute The Climate Institute is a non-partisan, independent research organisation that works with community, business and government to drive innovative and effective climate change solutions. We research. We educate. We communicate.

Our vision is for an Australia leading the world in clean technology use and innovation, with clean and low carbon solutions a part of everyday life throughout the community, government and business.

Appendix 9: Industry Organisations and Accreditation Programs

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Organisation Description

ComputersOff Computers Off Australia is a not-for-profit organisation and GreenIT labelling initiative designed to educate and recognise organisations that are doing their part to reduce their carbon footprint through the implementation of power management and virtualisation and carbon-neutral computing.

Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism

The Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism provides advice and policy support to the Australian Government regarding Australia’s resources, energy and tourism sectors. The Department develops and delivers policies to increase Australia’s international competitiveness, consistent with the principles of environmental responsibility and sustainable development.

Energy Star ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.

Environment Protection and Heritage Council of Australia and New Zealand

The objective of the Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC) is to ensure the protection of the environment and heritage of Australia and New Zealand.

EPA Victoria Environment Protection Authority Victoria’s purpose is to protect, care for and improve our environment.

EPEAT EPEAT is a system that helps purchasers evaluate, compare and select electronic products based on their environmental attributes. The system currently covers desktop and laptop computers, thin clients, workstations and computer monitors.

GHG Protocol Initiative The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. A decade-long partnership between the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the GHG Protocol is working with businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.

Green Growth Green Growth is a policy focus for Asia and the Pacific that emphasises environmentally sustainable economic progress to foster low-carbon, socially inclusive development.

To assist the capacity development of policy and decision makers, UNESCAP is focusing on the following five tracks as the most important policy measures to enhance green growth:

• Green Tax and Budget Reform

• Development of Sustainable Infrastructure

• Promotion of Sustainable Consumption and Production (Demand-side Management)

• Greening Business and Markets

• Eco-efficiency Indicators

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GreenIT As a firm GreenIT® is committed to leadership in:

• Presenting clear, unbiased information about sustainability solutions for IT.

• Creating practical programs that achieve measurable results.

• Communicating the liabilities and benefits of ICT for a more sustainable future

Green PC Green Peripherals and Components, otherwise known as GreenPC, has now developed as a successful social enterprise initiative of Infoxchange Australia that operates to service low income people on a national basis.

Green PCs are recycled personal computers that are refurbished and repackaged into usable, Internet-ready computers, and then made available to low-income communities, individuals and community organisations. The only qualification for an individual or family to have access to a Green PC computer is that they be holders of current Health Care Cards or are able to verify their low income status in some other way.

The objectives of GreenPC is to upgrade and Internet-enable outdated computers. Once a donated computer has been refurbished, it becomes available for distribution

The Green Grid The Green Grid is a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data Centres and business computing ecosystems around the globe. The organization seeks to unite global industry efforts to standardize on a common set of metrics, processes, methods and new technologies to further its common goals.

Green Power GreenPower aims to drive investment in new renewable energy and as such only post January 1, 1997 renewable energy generation can become accredited under the scheme.

It operates throughout Australia to guarantee that the renewable electricity you buy from energy suppliers meets stringent environmental standards. With GreenPower, the choice to move to renewable energy is made simple

International Organisation for Standardisation

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’s largest developerand publisher of International Standards.

• ISO 14001, The world’s environmental management system standard

Mobile Muster Official recycling program of the mobile phone industry

Product Stewardship Australia

Product Stewardship Australia (PSA) is a not-for-profit, producer responsibility organisation which is developing a national collection, recycling and community education scheme for televisions

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Resource Smart ResourceSmart online - a website designed for Victorians who want to take the hard work out of shrinking their impact on the environment.

Among the range of solutions, ideas and advice on the site, you’ll find information on rebates for energy and water-saving devices, how and where to recycle things you thought couldn’t be, and useful tools that will help you learn how to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.

Whether you’re a householder, an educator, in business or in government, ResourceSmart is the place where you’ll find the sustainability answers you’re looking for.

Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive

This directive restricts the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment.

Lead (Pb), Mercury (Hg), Cadmium (Cd), Hexavalent chromium (Cr6+), Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE).

It is closely linked with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) 2002/96/EC which sets collection, recycling and recovery targets for electrical goods and is part of a legislative initiative to solve the problem of huge amounts of toxic eWaste.

SAI Global SAI Global provides organisations around the world with information services and solutions for managing risk, achieving compliance and driving business improvement.

We provide aggregated access services to Standards, Handbooks, Legislative and Property publications; we audit, certify and register your product, system or supply chain; we facilitate good governance and awareness of compliance, ethics and policy issues and provide training and improvement solutions to help individuals and organisations succeed.

Standards Australia Standards Australia is the nation’s peak non-government Standards organisation. It is charged by the Commonwealth Government to meet Australia’s need for contemporary, internationally aligned Standards and related services.

The work of Standards Australia enhances the nation’s economic efficiency, international competitiveness and contributes to community demand for a safe and sustainable environment.

It leads and promotes a respected and unbiased Standards development process ensuring all competing interests are heard, their points of view considered and consensus reached.

Standards Australia also recognises, rewards and promotes excellence in design and innovation through the Australian International Design Awards program and other design promotion initiatives.

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Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers. SPEC develops benchmark suites and also reviews and publishes submitted results from our member organisations and other benchmark licensees.

Storage Network Industry Association

Green Storage Initiative

The SNIA Green Storage Initiative (GSI) is dedicated to advancing energy efficiency and conservation in all networked storage technologies and minimizing the environmental impact of data storage operations.

The GSI’s mission

• To conduct research on power and cooling issues confronting storage administrators

• Educate the vendor and user community about the importance of power conservation in shared storage environments

• Leverage SNW and other SNIA and partner conferences to focus attention on energy efficiency for networked storage infrastructures

• Provide input to the SNIA Green Storage TWG on requirements for green storage metrics and standards

• Provide external advocacy and support of the technical work of the SNIA Green Storage Technical Working Group

Total Quality Certification Services International

TQCS International is a fully accredited, third party certification body providing certification of Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001), Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001), Food Safety Management Systems (ISO 22000 and HACCP) and Safety Management Systems (OHSAS 18001).

TQCSI was developed following a demand from the business community for a local, customer focussed company to assist in third party certification.

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive

The directive imposes the responsibility for the disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment on the manufacturers of such equipment. Those companies should establish an infrastructure for collecting WEEE, in such a way that users of electrical and electronic equipment from private households should have the possibility of returning WEEE at least free of charge. Also, the companies are compelled to use the collected waste in an ecologically-friendly manner, either by ecological disposal or by reuse/refurbishment of the collected WEEE.

VECCI Grow me the Money Grow Me The Money helps small to medium sized businesses reduce their environmental impact and save money. Through its online technology you can track and measure your resource use to help you calculate your carbon footprint.

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Appendix 10: Vendor Green Portals

Accenture

AMD

APPLE

Brother

CANON

Capegemini

CSC

Dell

EMC

EPSON

Fujitsu

FUJI XEROX

HDS

HP

IBM

Intel

LENOVO

LEXMARK

Microsoft

Oracle

SAP

SAS

Sun

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Carbon Offset Guide Australia

The Carbon Offset Guide is intended to be a resource for businesses, government agencies, NGO organisations and individuals seeking information about offsets.

The aim of this website is to provide an independent directory of Australian carbon offset providers. It is hoped this will improve the understanding of the offset market by Australian businesses, as well as the broader community, and facilitate better environmental and economic outcomes.

EcoBuy ECO-Buy Limited is a not for profit Centre of Excellence in Environmental Purchasing, established to encourage the purchasing of environmentally preferable (green) products and services.

Green purchasing is based on the simple premise that every purchase impacts on the environment in some way, and is about choosing to buy products and services that are less damaging to our environment and human health than competing products and services that serve the same purpose.

Backed by nine years of award winning experience delivering practical programs,

ECO-Buy’s objective is to increase the demand and use of green products and services.

To achieve this, ECO-Buy offers a one-stop-shop to support organisations to ‘green’ their purchasing, providing a wide range of services and resources, from policy and strategy development and implementation to practical tools, templates and advice.

Eco Directory Set up in 2003, EcoDirectory is Australia’s original green directory. We list thousands of Australian sustainable green products and services, non-profit organisations, grassroots campaigns and useful eco resources. The site is also full of green resources and information. EcoDirectory will help you reduce your environmental footprint and get involved in the green movement in Australia.

Green Directory The Green Directory is Australia’s bone fide online resource for locating genuine green business, products and services. All businesses in the categories below have been selected for their ‘green’ attributes and sustainable business practices.

Green Pages Directory Green Pages began in 2005, launching Australia’s first print and online directory listing of sustainble products and services. Starting with an annual directory, Green Pages has grown to be a Quarterly Magazine, a Business Directory plus an online portal of sustainable news and products. The Directory itself has grown to include over 7000 listings.

Green Pages is dedicated to being the leading provider of information for businesses and consumers who are looking to go green.

Appendix 11: Local Green Directories

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Melbourne Carbon Market Carbon Services Guide: The Guide provides a snapshot of the capabilities of carbon trading in Victoria.

Melbourne Carbon Market Services Directory: A comprehensive listing of companies offering services to support the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher Directory

Microsoft is excited to announce the availability of the new commercial Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher (MAR) program. This program is tailored to the needs of large refurbishers that wish to work with Microsoft to deliver genuine Windows software licenses on systems they refurbish and sell.

Not currently available in Australia.

Recycling Near You Don’t dump it, recycle it! This is the Planet Ark and Sensis ‘Recycling Near You’ website. You can search for local recycling information either by Council AREA or PRODUCT.

Enter your Postcode, Suburb or Council Name in one of the forms below to find where you can recycle in your local area.

Sustainable Living Directory The Sustainable Living Directory Green Pages focuses on promotion of businesses that are ‘values-driven,’ as well as profit-driven. We offer an opportunity to showcase organisations that are socially and environmentally responsible in the way they source, manufacture, and market their products and the way they run their offices and factories. We are especially interested in those who show innovative practices that benefit workers, communities, customers and the environment.

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Connection Research Connection Research is an Australian market research and consultancy company specialising in analysis of sustainability issues.

Forward Shift Environment Forward Shift Environmental is an environmental research & consultancy with products and services within the Energy & Environment and Sustainable Computing sectors. As a non-profit engineering consultancy, our focus is on the development of cost-effective solutions through a number of measures such as engineering and educational initiatives which will deliver long-term value to all relevant stakeholders.

Melbourne University ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN)

RMIT The GreenIT Observatory (GITO) is hosted at the School of Business Information Technology, RMIT University. The aim of the GITO platform is to promote research collaborations and the sharing of knowledge between and among practitioners and researchers. GITO publishes the GreenIT Working Paper Series and other cutting edge resources on GreenIT. Currently the group of researchers behind GITO are working with and/or are supported by the following industry partners: AIIA, Connection Research and Fujitsu.

Swinburne National Centre for Sustainability

Swinburne’s Green Resource Bank

Reputex RepuTex is the foremost source of sustainability and climate change research across the Asia-Pacific region, providing data solutions to assist companies and financial institutions measure, model and manage new risks.

Mobium Group Mobium Group is a team of management consultants, market and social researchers and scientists.

The firm assists organisations make decisions about issues and market opportunities related to sustainability, technology, health and wellbeing.

Appendix 12: Local Green Research

Local Research

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Organisation Description

BuilderAU GreenIT Locally published GreenIT articles

Green CIO Locally published GreenIT articles

GreenIT Strategy Locally published GreenIT articles, podcasts and interviews with GreenIT vendors and professionals.

Green Living Pedia A free resource for sharing information on green living, now and for the future. This is a wiki, so you can create and edit content to share information and collaborate with others on how we can lighten our footprint on the planet and live in harmony with nature and our environment.

ZNet Australia Locally published GreenIT articles

Organisation Description

Computing for Sustainability This blog contains the daily(ish) workings of Samuel Mann. I am Associate Professor at Otago Polytechnic, in Dunedin, New Zealand. I effectively hold two positions – I teach in computing (software engineering, interaction design) and hold the institution’s Education for Sustainability Portfolio.

Green Data Centre Blog Green M3 LLC is about Monitoring, Modeling, and Managing of a Green Data Centre View. The M3 is for the art of abstracting compute into a cubic meter of space to understand relationships from a different view. Dave Ohara is the Founder and Architect of Green M3 LLC. With 26 years of experience at technology companies, Microsoft, Apple, and HP, creating solutions that change the user experience is his passion. I use this blog to share my ideas with the industry, learning what works and what does not, and use this knowledge with clients to be ahead of others.

GreenIT As a firm GreenIT® is committed to leadership in:

• Presenting clear, unbiased information about sustainability solutions for IT.

• Creating practical programs that achieve measurable results.

• Communicating the liabilities and benefits of ICT for a more sustainable future

Appendix 13: GreenIT News

Local News

Global News

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Green Broadband GreenIT/Broadband and Cyber-infrastructure Overview

One of the greatest threats to our future society and economy is global warming. It is estimated that the CO2 emissions of the ICT industry alone exceeds the carbon output of the entire aviation industry. The ICT industry and research community has a collective responsibility to help address this problem. Fortunately, as compared to the aviation industry, the ICT industry and research community has the tools at hand to reduce its direct CO2 output to zero and the additional capability of enabling other sectors of society to reduce their carbon footprint through carbon rewards rather than unpopular carbon taxes.

Governments around the world are wrestling with the challenge of how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The current preferred approaches are to impose carbon taxes and implement various forms of cap and trade or carbon offset systems. However another approach to help reduce carbon emission is to reward those who reduce their carbon footprint. It is estimated that consumers control or influence over 60percent of all CO2 emissions. As such, one possible reward system of trading bits and bandwidth for carbon, or sometimes called gCommerce is to provide homeowners with free fiber to the home or free wireless products and other electronic services such as ebooks and eMovies if they agree to pay a premium on their energy consumption which will encourage them to reduce emissions by turning down the thermostat or using public transportation. Not only does the consumer benefit, but this business model also provides new revenue opportunities for network operators, optical equipment manufacturers, and eCommerce application providers.

The Green Channel The Green Channel provides insight, analysis, trends and examples for business leaders looking to create organisations that run on environmentally friendly business practices.

The Green Channel is powered by Enterprise Innovation.

The GreenIT Review The GreenIT Report offers off-the-shelf market information and a range of custom research and consultancy services to support your green ICT positioning.

Green Network Hardware The goal of this blog is to make people aware that our technology production and consumption affect the health of the planet. I want to start a conversation about how we can make our networking, hardware, and technology output more eco-friendly.

Greening of IT Observations on the sustainability and ‘greening’ issues in IT and Telecommunications (Sponsored by Books24x7)

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Greener Computing GreenBiz.com™, Business Voice of the Green Economy, is the leading source for news, opinion, best practices, and other resources on the greening of mainstream business. Launched in 2000, its mission is to provide clear, concise, accurate, and balanced information, resources, and learning opportunities to help companies of all sizes and sectors integrate environmental responsibility into their operations in a manner that supports profitable business practices.

GreenBiz.com™ is the flagship website of Greener World Media, the world’s first and only mainstream media company focused exclusively on sustainability and the competitive edge it brings to businesses. Founded by green business pioneer Joel Makower and B-to-B publishing veteran Pete May, Greener World Media also produces:

IDC GreenIT Research Global based resource of articles on GreenIT

UK Authority UK based resource of articles on GreenIT

Workshifting If you work out of coffee shops, hotels, airports and your home every bit as much as the office, workshifting.com is for you. We’ll feature tips, reviews, and opinions about the world of Web commuting (relying on the Web to get work done at any time, from virtually anywere.) That’s what workshifting is all about. To assist with this, we have assembled a Worldwide Workplace Council comprised of the top minds in the world when it comes to Web commuting. This team of selected members will provide regular insights and will be featured here.

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ACS GreenIT SIG

http://greenit.org.au/

GreenIT is an Australian-wide ICT industry body that is empowering the community through awareness and knowledge to adopt environmentally sustainable business practices.

We work with ICT Professionals across all levels of management and clients of ICT services to address today’s sustainability challenges and identify solutions for a better tomorrow. Our goal is to drive nationwide change in technology, processes and people by providing credible, unbiased information and through direct engagement with a range of stakeholders including the IT industry, government and NGOs

AIIA Environment Special Interest Group (E-SIG).

The premier national forum for ICT companies (AIIA members) to discuss issues relating to eWaste, emissions, energy efficiency and related standards. The forum engages with Industry and Governments on these issues. This forum initiated the Byteback program in Victoria and negotiated positions on eWaste and energy efficiency standards.

Environment Special Interest Group (E-SIG) collaborates on creative industry projects to address environmental issues, assesses regulatory and legislative issues proposed by government, and provides the framework for an important industry network. The E-SIG has a number of key focus areas, including:

• developing, implementing and promoting Byteback, an industry-driven recycling and product stewardship scheme sharing up-to-date information on environmental issues of concern to the industry

• supporting AIIA member companies in their sustainability endeavours.

AIIA Sustainable Futures Forum

Constantly reviewing the latest innovations and industry experiences and providing topical forums and symposiums in this rapidly changing environment.

EPA Carbon Innovators Network

As a member of EPA’s Carbon Innovators Network, companies will have access to:

• Discussion forums with key climate change innovators;

• Public recognition opportunities for highlighting their innovative carbon management strategies;

• Tailored business support and advice from EPA as required;

• The opportunity to determine the tools and resources EPA develops; and

• Opportunities to partner with other Network members on specific carbon innovation projects.

Appendix 14: Local GreenIT Forms

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ANU GreenIT strategies Graduate Certificate in Green ICT Strategies COMP7310

ICT is both part of the problem and part of the solution to climate change. A study sponsored by the Australian Computer Society has shown that computers and telecommunications equipment in Australia generated 7.94Mt of carbon dioxide in 2005, 1.52 percent of national emissions. This course investigates the contribution of ICT to carbon emissions and how technology can reduce those emissions.

This subject is drawn from practices being developed in the public and private sectors internationally. Implementation methodologies and assessment tools currently being field-tested are introduced. Qualification schemes and accreditation are yet to be established and it is possible those completing this subject may be involved in that development.

This course was developed in conjunction with the Australian Computer Society. The Learning Outcomes have been designed for Level 5 competencies of the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) common reference model. More information is on the course webpage.

Australian Computer Society Course Details

Box Hill TAFE – GreenIT Course

Vocational Graduate Certificate in ICT Sustainability

This Graduate Certificate is unique in that it concentrates on ICT aspects of sustainability.

The ICT Industry is well placed to be the driving force for change in the new low carbon economy. As a student in this course, you will develop skills not ordinarily found in a straight IT qualification, that will meet industry’s need for employees with knowledge and awareness of ICT sustainability issues.

This is a four-unit postgraduate qualification. Subjects will cover:

• General sustainability – looking at current issues and solutions

• Green ICT – ICT industry developments to reduce carbon footprint

• ICT as an industry enabler to carbon reduction – focusing on how ICT will help other industries to lower their carbon footprints

• ICT sustainability business case study – skills to develop business proposals to reduce carbon emissions for business.

Students will work in small classes with professionally qualified lecturing staff.

You will need to have an IT background to study this course. This course is the first of its kind in Australia.

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Excom Education GreenIT Courses

• GR-100 GreenIT Fundamentals

• GR-200 GreenIT - Design and Implementation

• GR-300 GreenIT - Choosing & Implementing the Right Carbon Emission Management Software

The Natural Edge Project – Sustainable IT

The Engineering Sustainable Solutions Program Sustainable IT Lecture Series

This Lectures Series offers a solution that addresses many barriers to Sustainable IT while optimising costs and minimising negative environmental impact. The focus is on the product and service provision components of Sustainable IT. Specifically, these lectures describe a holistic, end-to-end solution for IT systems of medium and large enterprises. This solution consists of:

• Product service systems: also known as sustainable services and systems and eco-efficient services There are several product service systems topologies. These Lectures describe the use services topology as applied to IT products and services. In this topology, customers purchase the services of some or all IT hardware and software products through leasing, renting, sharing or pooling while the vendor maintains the ownership, responsibility and stewardship of the products. The aims are to remove aged technology with minimal environmental impact while customers maximise their investment on their IT systems. Vendors can be either an external company or the customer’s IT business function, operating largely independently.

• Sustainable IT products: i.e. those items of client and data centre equipment that are resource efficient to manufacture, transport and operate, and have low-to-no adverse health impacts on people and the environment throughout their lifecycles.

Tom Worthington’s eLearning Course on Green ICT

Course Details

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Appendix 16: Further Reading on GreenIT

Skillsoft Resources

SkillSoft is a leading provider of on-demand eLearning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and small- to medium-size businesses.

The following Executive Blueprints and Analyst Reports from SkillSoft can be downloaded by clicking here.

For more information contact SkillSoft’s Regional Director in Australia

Four Green Strategies You Can Deploy in the Next 12 Months by Dale Sartor, Matthew Lenzini, Jason Davenport and Otto Doll: Books24x7 © 2008 Citation.

Featuring IT and efficiency experts from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Pepco Holdings, Franmar Chemical, and the State of South Dakota, this ExecBlueprint offers green strategies that IT leaders can deploy to immediately reduce energy costs.

Going Green: How Sustainability Can Work for Your Company by David E. Kepler, Darren Hammell and Raju Boligala: Books24x7 © 2008 Citation.

Authored by leaders of The Dow Chemical Company, Princeton Power Systems, and HerbThyme Farms, this ExecBlueprint defines sustainable practices and describes how companies can embrace them and become more profitable.

The Green Evolution: How to Grow Your Company by Becoming an Environmental Innovator by Mark Stanton, David S. Pearl II, Amrit Khalsa and MaryAnne Howland: Books24x7 © 2008 Citation.

In this ExecBlueprint, senior leaders from Sun Microsystems, Uniweld Products, Essential Living Foods, and Ibis Communications share their companies’ process in becoming environmental innovators, and the specific gains they have so far reaped.

The Global Carbon Credits Market (A Consensus Report) © 2008, Books24x7

Best Practices for Greening of Data Centres (A Consensus Report) ©2009, Books24x7

Green Supply Chains: A Business Imperative (A Consensus Report) ©2008, Books24x7

Virtualization: Paving the Path for Green Data Centres (A Consensus Report) ©2008, Books24x7

Other Resources

GreenIT – Tom Worthington

GreenIT – Reduce you information system’s environmental impact while adding to the bottom line, Toby J. Velte, Anthony T. Velte, Robert Elsenpeter

Blackbook of outsourcing – Scott Wilson, Doug Brown

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Sustainability Performance Indicator

Description

AFSMI – Association for Services Management International

The Association for Services Management International is the global leader in helping service professionals and service organisations deliver more value for their customers. AFSMI is internationally recognized for over 30 years of experience delivering research, education, assessment and certification programs as well as conferences and events all focused on the services industry.

Balanced Scorecard The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system used to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization, improve internal and external communications, and monitor organizational performance against strategic goals.

Banksia Awards The Banksia Awards over the last 21 years have recognised many valuable Australian’s for their tireless efforts in making a positive difference to our environment. Leading by example, the finalists and winners of the Banksia Environmental Awards have inspired and motivated other individuals, organisations and companies across Australia to take up the vision, pursuit and practice of environmental excellence.

Carbon Disclosure Reporting The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organisation which holds the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world. The data is obtained from responses to CDP’s annual Information Requests, issued on behalf of institutional investors, purchasing organisations and government bodies. Since its formation in 2000, CDP has become the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and process, providing primary climate change data to the global market place.

Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

The Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are the first global indexes tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide. Based on the cooperation of Dow Jones Indexes, STOXX Limited and SAM they provide asset managers with reliable and objective benchmarks to manage sustainability portfolios.

Energy Resource Efficiency Planning Participants

Around 250 sites across Victoria have answered the call to reduce energy, water and waste generation by developing plans to cut resource use. These sites use approximately 700 petajoules of energy and 300 gigalitres of water a year. This is the equivalent to around 45 percent of Victoria’s annual energy use, and the annual water consumption of around 1.5 million average Victorian households.

Global Reporting Initiative The Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) vision is that disclosure on economic, environmental, and social performance becomes as commonplace and comparable as financial reporting, and as important to organizational success.

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Sustainability Performance Indicator

Description

iAwards The iAwards are Australia’s leading ICT industry awards. Each year, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) runs the iAwards as the Australian member of the Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance Awards (APICTA) to deliver a truly international awards program to the Australian technology community.

Reputex RepuTex is the foremost source of sustainability and climate change research across the Asia-Pacific region, providing data solutions to assist companies and financial institutions measure, model and manage new risks.

Triple Bottom Line Triple bottom line accounting means expanding the traditional reporting framework to take into account ecological and social performance in addition to financial performance.

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1E available in Australia and New Zealand from AH Technology Pty Ltd

1E solutions and services help automate and simplify IT operations and reduce complexity, management cost andpower consumption costs. By providing leading-edge solutions, with its expertise, 1E has earned the trust and confidence of over 15 million licensed users across 1,100 businesses in 42 countries worldwide.

ACCC The ACCC promotes competition and fair trade in the marketplace to benefit consumers, businesses and the community. It also regulates national infrastructure services. The ACCC’s primary responsibility is to ensure that individuals and businesses comply with the Commonwealth competition, fair trading and consumer protection laws.

Australian Computer Society The Australian Computer Society (ACS) is the recognised association for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals, attracting a large and active membership from all levels of the ICT industry. A member of the Australian Council of Professions, the ACS is the public voice of the ICT profession and the guardian of professional ethics and standards in the ICT industry, with a commitment to the wider community to ensure the beneficial use of ICT.

BLADE BLADE is the leading supplier of Gigabit and 10G Ethernet network infrastructure solutions that reside in blade servers and server and storage racks.

BLADE’s virtual, cooler and easier RackSwitch family demonstrates Rackonomics – a revolutionary approach for scaling out data Centre networks to drive down total cost of ownership.

Byteback Byteback is a free computer take-back program to help people dispose of end-of-life equipment, or equipment that has reached the end of its useful life responsibly.

Canon Canon is a leading professional and consumer imaging solutions corporation with a comprehensive product line including: digital video cameras, digital compact and SLR cameras, printers, scanners, fax machines and networked multifunction devices.

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Corporate Express Corporate Express is a supplier of business essentials that operates throughout Australia and New Zealand. It provides business, education and government clients with everything an office requires – from consumables and canteen products through to business furniture, promotional marketing and printed materials, and IT and facilities management services. Offering sophisticated electronic purchasing options and next-day delivery through a national distribution network, Corporate Express has been one of the market’s major innovators for over 15 years.

Connex Connex is Australian’s largest commuter rail network Connex, operate 331 train fleet, travelling across 15 train lines to provide 12,664 services to the people of Melbourne each week.

CSC Australia A leading global consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company whose mission is to provide customers in industry and government sectors with solutions that are crafted to meet their strategic goals and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.

Dell Dell is a multinational technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers and other computer-related products.

Department of Treasury & Finance (DTF)

The Department of Treasury & Finance (DTF) provides the Victorian Government with economic, financial and resource management policy advice. The Government Services Group (GSG) within DTF contributes to sound financial management of the State’s fiscal resources through better value for money outcomes in Whole of Victorian Government (WoVG) and departmental procurement.

ECO-Buy ECO-Buy is an award winning not-for-profit Centre of Excellence in Environmental Purchasing which was established to encourage the purchasing of environmentally preferable products and services.

ECO-Buy works with public and private sector organisations to embed sustainable purchasing practices and acknowledges that change happens through people and that in order to facilitate change, people need good information and tools plus as well as support and encouragement.

Forward Shift Environmental Forward Shift Environmental is an environmental research & consultancy with products and services within the Energy & Environment and Sustainable Computing sectors. As a non-profit engineering consultancy, our focus is on the development of cost-effective solutions through a number of measures such as engineering and educational initiatives which will deliver long-term value to all relevant stakeholders.

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Fujitsu Fujitsu Australia Limited is a full service provider of information technology and communications solutions. We partner with our customers to consult, design, build, operate and support business solutions. From strategic consulting to application and infrastructure solutions and services, Fujitsu has earned a reputation as the single supplier of choice for leading corporate and government organisations.

GreenBizCheck GreenBizCheck provides a fast, affordable, world-leading green business certification program Scrutinised by universities, environmental agencies, governments and major corporations that maximises your green credentials with a 100percent money back guarantee.

Handset Detection Handset Detection allows developers, designers and agencies to work with thousands of mobile devices, easily and effortlessly. Designers and agencies are using it for mobile website redirection and mobile analytics whereas developers tend to use it for mobile device properties. It is a self updating, fully redundant, globally accessible web service containing an up to date list of all mobile phones and devices on the planet.

Handset Detection is built around the Software As A Service model (aka SAAS, like salesforce.com or freshbooks.com) and is attracting a following in the finance, media, telecommunications and tourism sectors.

IBM IBM is aligned around a single, focused business model: innovation. IBM takes its breadth and depth of insight on issues, processes and operations across a variety of industries and invents and applies technology to help solve its clients’ most intractable business and competitive problems.

Innovation Science Innovation Science is a software and systems engineering company based in Adelaide, South Australia, specialising in scientific research and custom software development for defence and commercial clients

Intel Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel® Software provides technologies, products and services developers need to create innovative products and industry-leading software solutions on Intel platforms.

Jetstar Jetstar is a value based carrier network providing all day every day low fares with an open approach to air travel. Collectively the Jetstar Group of airlines operate over 1900 weekly flights to 15 countries, serving in excess of 50 markets across the Asia and Asia Pacific region, employing 7,000 staff across the Asia Pacific region.

Ovum Ovum provides clients with independent and objective analysis that enables them to make better business and technology decisions.

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PCA People PCA People specialise in white collar recruitment in Canberra and the ACT region. We have been established in Canberra for 25 years and are proud of the long and successful relationships that have been developed with the wide range of government and private clients who use our services. It is our goal to provide clients and candidates with personal, efficient, relevant and professional recruitment and human resource services.

Powerful CMS Powerful CMS is a local business that specialises in helping SMEs grow their business online. They specialise in helping small to medium businesses with a proven concept and online revenues of 100K+ or successful offline businesses (under 10M) with no online revenues, to achieve online revenues of 1M+.

Prima Consulting Prima Consulting is a professional services company specialising in Information Management. We provide services to major Australian organisations as well as key government departments.

Reputex RepuTex is the foremost source of sustainability and climate change research across the Asia-Pacific region, providing data solutions to assist companies and financial institutions measure, model and manage new risks.

SEMA SEMA is a leading Direct Marketing, Consulting and IT Business Solutions group with the largest 100percent privately owned direct mail operation in Australasia.

Skillsoft SkillSoft is a leading provider of on-demand eLearning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and small- to medium-size businesses.

SMS Management & Technology

SMS Management & Technology is Australia’s largest publicly listed Management Services company. SMS Management & Technology solves complex problems and transform business through Consulting, Technology and Enterprise Solutions.

Sustainability Victoria Sustainability Victoria is a government agency whose purpose is to show the way to using our resources more efficiently and reducing our everyday environmental impacts

Telstra Telstra is the only communications company in Australia that can provide customers with a truly integrated telecommunications experience across fixed line, mobiles, broadband (BigPond®), information, transaction and search (Sensis®) and pay TV (FOXTEL).

Toyota Toyota Motor Corporation Australia (Toyota) is one of Toyota Japan’s global manufacturing centres with a long term commitment to the domestic and export markets.

Tradeslot Tradeslot is a leading provider of allocation mechanism technology and carbon management software that was looking for a cost effective way to manage international enquiries.

VMware VMware is the global leader in virtualisation solutions from the desktop to the data centre. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity and strengthen security. VMware services 94 percent of the ASX 100, more than 7,000 customers and more than 1,000 partners in Australia and New Zealand, helping them to reduce their carbon impact and achieve their environmental goals through virtualisation

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Appendix 19: List of eBook ReferencesThe following is a list of references that have been used:

1. Carbon Down – Victorian businesses’ climate change knowledge, attitudes and behaviours, Market research report, July 2009.

2. Gartner, ‘GreenIT: The New Industry Shockwave’, Presentation at Symposium/ITXPO conference, April 2007 – Page 3.

3. GeSI report, SMART2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age (June 20, 2008) – Page 6.

4. Review of the Australian government’s use of information and communication technology, Sir Peter Gershon CBE FREng, August 2008.

5. NGER ACT Reporting Timeline – National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.

6. Australia per capita emissions – Australia’s National Emissions Target Fact Sheet, May 2009.

7. Impact of CPRS on EBIDA – Carbon Cost Exposure per Industry Group, RepuTex 2007.

8. Trends in Data Centre operational costs – Office of Innovation May 2009 Sustainable ICT, CSC.

9. Operational Boundaries, HOT CLIMATE, COOL COMMERCE: A Service Sector Guide to Greenhouse Gas Management, WRI Report, May 2006.

10. Environmental Impacts of Sustainable IT: Before and After, The Five Pillars of the Environmentally Sustainable ICT Framework, CSC.

11. Green marketing and the ACCC, ACCC.