Editor's Note: We'd like to welcome you to a new guest column: "The Green Polymath," by Vinnie Mirchandani. Over the next few weeks, Vinnie will discuss how some of our most familiar enterprise ...

Vinnie Mirchandani, of Deal Architect fame, and I go way, way, way back. I became aware of Vinnie’s existence in the late 1980s or early 1990s when he worked at the Tampa technology center of ...