We're just two weeks into the new year and the new decade, and it's already been a booming year for green IT. Witness as Exhibit A the latest stimulus funds directed at green IT projects. While still a trickle compared to the billions in bank bailouts -- and even billions in other stimulus projects -- it still marks progress in wider recognition and adoption of green IT as an environmental imperative.

Exhibit B runs parallel to Exhibit A, with industry and research groups jumping head-first into a project to make ICT 1000 times more efficient. The Green Touch initiative, spearheaded by Bell Labs and its parent, Alcatel-Lucent, aims to drive the amount of energy your gadgets, computers and data centers need way, way down.

These two exhibits are just a drop in the bucket, and in my latest blog post I argue that they're the first trickles of a flood that mean 2010 may well be the year green IT 2.0 breaks out -- when green innovations go beyond data centers and computer energy efficiency and begins to transform every aspect of our daily lives. Check out the post for more details.

This report from the Green Grid explores how existing and forthcoming legislation is affecting data center operators in Europe, and how IT professionals can prepare and stay ahead of the curve.

This book systematically identifies the right improvements you can make to your IT infrastructure, and shows how to implement them, maximize savings, and accurately calculate business value.

Mark your calendars for two 2010 State of Green Business Forums, in San Francisco and Chicago. These one-day information-packed events coincide with the release of GreenBiz.com’s “State of Green Business 2010,” the acclaimed annual status report on corporate environmental trends and progress.