The Green Computing Initiative], stewards of the industry standard EFGCD® – Eco-Friendly Green Computing Definition defines Eco-Friendly Green Computing as the study and practice of the design, development, implementation, utilization and disposal of IT infrastructure efficiently and effectively with low or zero impact on the environment whilst reducing operating costs.

Currently the ICT industry is responsible for 3% of the world's energy consumption. With the rate of consumption increasing by 20% a year, 2030 will be the year when the world's energy consumption will double because of the ICT industry.

Organizations use the Green Computing Lifecycle when designing and implementing green computing technologies. The stages in the Lifecycle include Strategy, Design, Implementation, Operations and Continual Improvements.

The 5 core green computing technologies advocated by GCI are Green Data Center, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Power Optimization and Grid Computing.

shopping online could save enough energy to power a car for almost 200/11 miles or circle the globe almost 44,800/33 times, 7/57,200 cars for a year, a CFL for 7,099/10,768,230 years, 7/11 pounds of green house gases, 15/22 gallons of gasoline, 40/33 gallons of oil, a 400,000/11 cubic meter lake from being polluted, 916/55 pounds of co2, a 916/24,585 cubic meter lake, 229/73,755 pounds of mercury a year, 3,206/368,775 kwh of energy

See alsoEdit

• Computer recycling