As the authors state, this paper is “a cafeteria-style plan that [US college] campus IT [information technology] administrators can use to reduce energy use and to reduce or more efficiently use consumables.”

In Sections 1 and 2, Herrick and Ritschard discuss their “green computing goals,” which include: “save energy costs,” “increase the lifespan of equipment,” change heating/cooling conditions, and “demonstrate a leadership role for the [Colorado State] University” in green IT. Section 3 considers the facility design and renovation of server rooms, data centers, and classrooms, and includes experiments. Section 4 discusses server virtualization, thin clients, and remote management, and Sections 5 to 7 cover general hardware and software configuration, with limited use cases. The paper ends with Sections 8, “Reducing Consumption,” 9, “Education,” and 10, “Traditional Considerations.” Section 11, “References,” lists only three items.

This paper presents neither essential nor fundamental information.