This week Fujitsu announced the impending release of the first zero-watt computer. The Esprimo Green will hit stores this summer. Fujitsu boasts that the Esprimo Green uses absolutely zero power while in standby mode while still being “administrable”.

Fujitsu plans on giving a demonstration of the Esprimo Green Mobile Think Client at the Cebit technology trade show this March. The Esprimo Mobile stores it’s operating system in Flash memory and its data on remote server.

We’ll be keeping our eye on the Fujitsu at the Cebit trade show this year as they have promised to reveal more green tech there.

The Wall Street Journal reports that after the election, Barack Obama’s advisors held a meeting with IBM to find out what kind of impact federal funding for the IT industry would accomplish.

IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano made it clear that investment in IT would create jobs and even got pretty specific on it saying that $10 billion for broadband network expansion would generate 498,000 jobs in one year. The same amount going into IT in the medical industry would generate 212,000 position and if it went to the creation of a smart grid it would result in 239,000 jobs.

The Wall Street Journal states that Palmisano acknowledged that any of those investments would require legislation and that he asked the Obama advisers what might be done directly without having to worry about Congress.

The result led Palmisano to suggest an executive order that would see all of the government’s data centers to be made “green” within three years.

With all the recent talk about how to make a green data center, this might be a great time to try and execute this plan.

The new Lenovo LCD Thinkvision L244ox monitor was recently honored with Greenpeace’s highest rating for monitors in their Green Electronics Survey.

Lenovo credits part of its high eco-score with the monitors “Light Booster” technology which allows the monitor to perform its function on half the energy.

Since the Greenpeace Electronics Survey also looks at things like the use of hazardous chemical in electronics, the Lenovo monitor also received points for having a 33% reduction in mercury among other things. Greenpeace makes a special mention of the Lenovo L2440x wide monitor as a product leading the pack of eco-friendly technologies by being completely PVC and CFR, phthalate, antimony and beryllium-free. Additionally, almost 30% of it’s construction is from recycled plastic.

Lenovo is definitely proving itself to be a front-runner in the field of environmentally friendly electronics. Their Lenovo ThinkCentre 58/M58p topped the Environmentally Friendly Desktop Computer category as well.

Looking for a new way to reduce your carbon footprint? With over 165 million home computers in the United States alone, electricity is used and abused on a much larger scale - translating to over 5 million tons of wasted C02 from idle computers.

However, the eco-button, a new green gadget for your computer, is making wasted energy from idle computers obsolete. Each time you leave your computer, you simply press the eco-button and your computer is put into ‘ecomode’ which ensures that both your computer and monitor draw only the same power as when they are shut down. Bear in mind, you are not shutting your computer down - you can press any key on your keyboard to return to where you left off.