The 16-page report is a very worthwhile read for anyone interested in the direction and development of Green IT.
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Green IT Diffusion: An International Comparison
Posted in Green IT, tagged data centers, e-waste, electronic waste, environmental issues, environmental policies, green business, Green IT, green IT studies, senterra, senterra consulting, virtualization on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Can small businesses benefit from going green?
Posted in Communication, Corporate Ethics and CSR, Energy, Green IT, Indoor Environmental Quality, Waste Management, Workforce Optimization, tagged corporate budget, corporate communication, corporate ethics, cost-cutting, CSR, environmental issues, environmental policies, green business, Green IT, Indoor Environmental Quality, lighting optimization, senterra, small business sustainability, socio-environmental issues, triple bottom line on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From technological innovation to expansive socio-environmental initiatives, corporations like Google and Cisco, Continental Airlines and PG&E have incorporated environmental objectives into their overall business strategy. Many of their green projects required substantial financial investments, the capacity to reengineer processes and systems, the willingness to take risks and the allocation of time and resources.
The E-Waste Problem: Part 2
Posted in Corporate Ethics and CSR, Green IT, Waste Management, tagged corporate budget, corporate ethics, cost-cutting, CSR, e-waste, e-waste management, e-waste recycling, electronic waste, environmental issues, environmental policies, EPA, Green IT, hosted IT, IT hardware reduction, senterra, senterra consulting, socio-environmental issues, virtualization on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The majority of businesses today depend on a highly functional IT infrastructure, requiring frequent hardware upgrades and thereby contributing significantly to the electronic waste stream. Yet, IT departments remain largely ignored in corporate sustainability efforts.
How Green is the Internet?
Posted in Green IT, tagged CO2, communications infrastructure, corporate budget, cost-cutting, data centers, environmental issues, global warming, Green IT, Internet, internet carbon emissions, life cycle assessment, senterra consulting on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Like most other innovations since the industrial revolution, the internet’s environmental impact is sizeable and the technology, in the end, will be as green as we choose to make it. If we were to look solely at the type of internet activity that replaces activities of greater environmental impact, such as making purchases online rather than in-store or sending an email rather than a letter, we may actually have a clear case for an overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions through internet use, but we need to consider non-essential activities, and even high-impact annoyances like SPAM as well.
Virtualization is key factor in greening IT
Posted in Green IT, tagged cisco, corporate budget, cost-cutting, data centers, e-waste, environmental issues, global warming, Green IT, greenhouse gas emissions, netapp, nexus 1000v, senterra, senterra consulting, server virtualization, sustainability consulting, virtual storage, vmware vsphere 4.0 on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The cost factor is clearly a main selling point for the latest innovations in virtualization, maybe so much so that the environmental aspect does not need to be addressed in these presentations, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Many visionary leaders have already discovered that environmental initiatives are extremely compatible with efforts to reduce expenditures across their organizations and IT offers an ideal starting point.
