Greening IT Book

I just came across the e-book "Greening IT: How Greener IT Can Form a Solid Base For a Low-Carbon Society" (edited by Adrian T. Sobotta, Irene N. Sobotta and John Gotze, 2009). The book is 194 pages and avialable free online (2.3 Mbyte PDF).

Contents
Acknowledgements iii
Contents v
1 Prologue 1
2 Our Tools Will Not Save Us This Time - by Laurent
Liscia 5
3 Climate Change and the Low Carbon Society - by
Irene N. Sobotta 17
4 Why Green IT Is Hard - An Ecomonic Perspective -
by Rien Dijkstra 31
5 Cloud Computing - by Adrian Sobotta 65
6 Thin Client Computing - by Sean Whetstone 89
7 Smart Grid - by Adrian Sobotta 111
8 How IT Contributes to the Greening of the Grid - by
Dr. George W. Arnold 127
9 Green IT Industry Review - by Ariane Rüdiger 143
10 Out of The Box Ways IT Can Help to Preserve Na-
ture and Reduce CO2 Simultaneously - by Flavio
Souza 169
11 Epilogue 181
Index 185 ...

Prologue
This book started out as two people’s commitment to save the planet, and one guy crazy enough to suggest that a book was the way to do it. All three of us can now call ourselves the editors of this exciting, internationally collaborative, and non-profit (Creative Commons licensed) project. ...

From: "Greening IT: How Greener IT Can Form a Solid Base For a Low-Carbon Society", edited by Adrian T. Sobotta, Irene N. Sobotta and John Gotze, 2009.