How’s this for a slick-looking piece of eco-friendly machine? Here’s a laptop that uses biodegradable bamboo used in its construction. The U6V Bamboo notebook’s panel and palm rest is composed of bamboo and measures 15.2 x 9.6″ with a 12.1″ wide-screen with the standard 1280×800 resolution.

The notebook uses a LED backlight wide panel for lower power consumption, and ASUS SmartLogon technology that grants the user access with positive facial scan.

The ASUS U6V bamboo notebook retails for a cool $3075, but man - it’s a nice chunk of laptop.

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.