Everyone Has a Role: 

Architects:  Architecting out cross-application and cross-enterprise inefficiencies

Developers:  Reducing resources required by aps; green and sustainability metrics/patterns & practies

IT Pros:  Virtualization; server consolidation

SQL Pros/DBA's:  Best practices

Entrepreneurs:  Perhaps the best time to start and run a technology company since the start of the Internet

Everyone:  Home energy and green/sustainability aps

What GreeNTUG is:  Virtual User group to tap into the power of the .Net Developer Community to power the global Green and Sustainable efforts and to share it with the rest of the technology community.

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Awareness:  What Green and Sustainable Means to (Fill In The Blank, Developers, Architects, SQL Pros/DBA's, IT Pros, Users), and Why You Should Care

Opportunities:  How Green Can Help Benefit You and Your Company in a Down Economy

Collecting the Data:  Its All About the Tools:  Tools We Need for Green and Sustainability, Finding Them and Building Them

Join:  http://greentug.groups.live.com 

Discussion:  http://Facebook.com, GreeNTUG

Upcoming Meetings:  Meeting ordinarily on the first Tuesday of the month using Live Meeting, from 6:30pm-8:00pm

October 13, Tues, Sustainability and  Windows 7; update on REACH and Global Harmonization

November 3, Tues, Sustainability and SharePoint 2010

Dec 1, Tues, Sustainability Report from PDC

Jan 5, Tues, Sustainability and Architecture

Previous Events:

Sept 16, 2009, GreeNTUG Meeting:   Rvw of Harvard Business Review article, Sustainability is the Now the Key Driver of Innovation; Report from Dept of Defense UID (Unique ID) Conference in Orlando Sept 8-10; Report from Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals Aug 31-Sept 3; Waste Exchange Update.

August 6, 2009, GreeNTUG Meeting:   Bing API Gnomedex Will Code For Green $10,000 Contest; Microsoft Hohm.

July 6, 2009, GreeNTUG Meeting:   Developer's focus, It's All About The Tools, with Russ Fustino and John Tarbox.