Motorola makes "green" play with recycled phone

Motorola has come up with a phone made from recycled water bottles, the company said today, adding that it reduced the handset's carbon footprint from making, distributing and operating the phone by planting trees and investing in alternative-energy technology. T-Mobile USA will begin marketing the W233 phone this quarter.

Green IT resolutions

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy from their blog Green Tech Pastures offer 10 Green IT Resolutions that businesses will embrace in the coming 12 months: I wrote about money saving ideas for 2009 in November but their take for the new year is definitely worth the read. These ideas are nothing new but I find that even I need to be refreshed on the basics:

-Steal some T&E budget for conferencing technology:
-Support and encourage telecommuting:
-Establish baselines to improve corporate carbon profiles:
-Adopt power management:
-Go paperless:
-Incorporate virtualization and consolidation into routine data center practices:
-Establish an audit trail for e-waste:
-Add “green” metrics to technology evaluation criteria:
-Look to the cloud:
-Insist on a seat during larger corporate green discussions: