It might seem hypocritical for a company like Akamai to preach about green CDNs while accusing others of greenwashing when Akamai itself is one of the media technology industry’s most significant power-guzzlers, but we can’t fault the CDN heavyweight for trying to educate the world to improve on its own fundamental flaws. Akamai had several representatives at Streaming Media East this week, including a post that is sounding more and more familiar – Director of Corporate Sustainability. If your organization doesn’t already have a dedicated sustainability position, then people will soon start to ask questions, and rightly so. Encoding vendors are under the cosh of Akamai, somewhat paradoxically, as the company takes issue with marketing departments making wild claims about…