It's already developed a "gas gauge" for its servers, and a
greener means of recycling silicon, but IBM now looks to be
taking its increasing environmental awareness to an even larger
scale, with it, Enterprise Information Management, and Evergreen
Energy developing a greenhouse gas meter that promises to
measure the carbon output of various industries and devices,
according to IDG. Dubbed GreenCert, the software employs a whole
mess of IBM tools including various WebSphere applications,
along with an "engine" designed by the folks at C-Lock in order
to take a snapshot of a particular company's carbon footprint.
It then does it's thing again after the company's taken measures
to reduce its carbon emissions, giving them proof of their
reductions which they can use to get carbon emission credits
that can be traded on the carbon market. The software won't be
available in its final form until sometime in the first half of
2008, however, but those looking to get a jump on things can
apparently get a beta version f