Green + Sustainability = New IT Business Model. Do you think you?
Personally, I think yes. There have quite number of successful "green IT" projects, that you may currently use. For example,
- Green OS, Windows 7, saving money and energy. Win 7 helps to save $44 per machine per year in India; in US $81 per PC per year [1].
Here are two signs showing that Green IT business is adapted positively worldwide, and something we should think of when we are going to start a new IT project [2].
[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/see/archive/2010/12/15/look-who-s-saving-energy-and-money-with-windows-7.aspx
[2] http://www-03.ibm.com/press/attachments/GreenIT-final-Mar.4.pdf
Going Green in IT is very possible. If it can be applied elsewhere it can be applied to IT. If you look at many computer specifications nowadays, they are made with less harmful chemicals, recyclable parts, and pose a smaller threat to the environment to computers made 10years ago. I also find that IT itself is an ecofriendly concept. An example is my iPad: I have two magazine subscriptions on it (reduce paper), calendar and notes (reduce paper), etc. I just don't know if the effects of the device itself (i.e. Mercury within it, disposal, etc) pose a greater threat than the benefits.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with you. I think doing green is not one man work. It requires many other relating individuals or organizations to cooperate each other to do good, for example, like manufacturers, producing less harmful devices, customers, disposing their no-longer-use devices in the right garbage bin, etc.
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