GigaOM writes, It’s no big secret these days that moving to the cloud is no longer a sufficient environmental policy. Sure, it may reduce paper usage, underutilized hardware and localized energy costs, but those things alone aren’t a business necessity yet. More recently, the conversation has shifted from merely moving to the cloud in order to achieve efficiency to making the cloud more sustainable and resilient. What we’ve learned over the last several months, from various research reports and extensive media coverage, about the amount of CO2 generated from the IT industry’s exponentially growing...