Plastic Bags!
Everyone on earth should see this.

This has convinced us to remember to bring our own bags to the supermarket!
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The EPA's Low Carbon IT Campaign
Lowering Your Energy Consumption & Carbon Footprint By Enabling PC Power Management

The last tab of the EPA’s Excel-based savings calculator is a form summarizing the estimates and is what companies use to make a formal pledge.

SOURCE: U.S. EPA
The convergence of escalating energy prices and societal concern over human-caused climate change has renewed interest in energy efficiency and conservation for many businesses. According to the Energy Information Administration, commercial electricity rates have increased almost 12% since 2005, and at many companies, IT is a major contributor to the bill.
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10 Key Elements of a 'Green IT' Strategy 

By Simon Mingay

Every IT organization can substantially improve its environmental performance, while often reducing or avoiding costs. IT organizations must go beyond the data center and adopt a very broad approach to their environmental programs. 

Key Findings:

• IT significantly impacts the environment throughout its life cycle. Most enterprises have  not paid enough attention to this until recently.
• IT's environmental impact can be significantly reduced by behavioral changes, as well as technology changes. 

• Given the relative energy and materials inefficiency of most IT infrastructures today, many green IT initiatives can be easily tackled at no incremental cost. 
  

Recommendations for IT Organizations:

• Implement a broad-based environmental program tackling energy and material efficiency, as well as issues of waste and supplier management. 


• Ideally, do this as part of a broader enterprise initiative to help drive behavioral changes. 
  

Publication Date: 7 December 2007 ID Number: G00154085

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