We all know that the world needs a new conscience about the environment, we must change our little habits to contribute for a better global house. I think that we need some examples and some initiatives to give us some courage and some inspiration. The great thing is that we have from big companies some cool green initiatives and they really have that conscience about this issues.
Not only on computers technology, for example Mitsubishi have one green initiative on theirs air conditioning called green gateway initiative, and the traditional and well know recycle organizations are keeping and innovating new recycles processes for better and more products.
On the web, we can find some cool pages with interactive applications to help us on our habits and our behavior with environment. http://green.msn.com/ and http://www.carbongrove.com/ are two cool places to visit.
So big technology companies have this subject on schedule, we can visit theirs web pages to see the vision and the strategy from each one.
http://www.microsoft.com/environment/
http://www.google.com/corporate/green/energy/
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/21440.wss
http://www.apple.com/environment/
There are many initiatives, and some challenges like ImagineCup have also adopted this question in theirs terms and applications. On other hand we have the motors companies worried about this and they are investing on hybrid and similar's technologies to contribute for a green environmental and to save some money from our pockets.
Definitely our great individual contribution can be by reducing the power consumption, on laptops we can use energy save plan, on desktops keep them in a lower state of power and when buying new electronic equipment keep in mind the power consumption table. In each house we can change some old lamps to the new ones, I'm remembering now that EDP (Portuguese electric supplier) have a initiative for this, keeping recycle trash and give some vacations to our car.
So let's take the wave and going green.