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This is definitively one of my new year resolution. Whenever I’ll need to buy new hardware I will try to :

• Use computer/gears with lower consumption of energy
• Use computer/gears that require less toxic substances
• Use more recyclable/reusable hardware
• Use software that require less power consumption

In the last few months I’ve been collecting some links about that subject (you can also review the others I was talking about in an another post) so I can have a little thinking on that.

This article show step by step how to build a greener PC, I picked some good trick along the way

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2097765,00.asp

If you don’t have the time to build it yourself you can still look at those very small computer available on the market

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4091104225.html

The following enable linux user to evaluate (on intel machine) what application is eating more energy

http://www.linuxpowertop.org/

(tell me if such an application exist also on a windows box)