Green IT

"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs,
but not every man's greed"

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every company is becoming environment conscious! When the economies are turning blue the societies are enhancing the green! With the increase in carbon emitters there is a serious concern of the environment changing into red! Carbon Emissions are one of those Eco Economy indicators and Green IT is an initiative to reduce carbon emission by IT/ITeS firms.

Every employee can contribute to Green IT by:

-Shutdown computer and other peripherals before leaving for the day.

-Set the power settings of one's computer to switch of monitor, hard disks and machine appropriately.

-Follow printing etiquettes, like double sided printing, using one sided papers for rough drafts.

Not only employees, even company’s management can try:

-Leveraging Hardware Virtualization to consolidate hardware

-Calculate Carbon foot prints - Calculator

-Purchasing ClimateSaverComputing, EnergyStar or other equivalent certified equipments.

-Encourage work from home on weekends and if possible on weekdays too.

-Design IT Strategies and Policies

-Two/four wheeler vehicle pooling