As IT (Information technology) plays more and more important role in society life, all becomes more important also a problem of minimization of negative ecological influence of manufacture and IT Equipment use. At the same time, IT possess huge potential on reduction of negative ecological influence of other kinds of activity in a society. For this reason – for these two different reasons – so it is important to give particular attention IT within the limits of efforts on counteraction of global warming to warming and other problems of environment.
In the article, Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices, San Murugesan defines the field of green computing as "the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems—efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment . Data of the Danish Institute of Statistics shows that in 2007 year in 83 percent of family economy there was a computer while in 1990 year this figure was 15 percent. Moreover, 94 percent of family economy with computers have in 2007 year access to the Internet. At last, 98 percent of the Danish companies with more than 10th employees use IT. These figures mean that Denmark has entered epoch of green IT .
However distribution IT has ecological consequences. By estimations of firm Gartner Consulting (Gartner Consulting), the leading research and consulting company on IT, IT is responsible for the same volume of emissions CO2 on a global scale, as well as all aviation industry which volumes of emissions make two percent from total amount of emissions CO2. In the near future influence of IT on environment will get increasing value in the global climatic agenda. We should improve the methods of struggle against harmful influence of IT on environment by more ecologically thought over use of it.
Also researchers have stated that the ICT sector is responsible for 2% of the Greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere with a forecast of 4% increase by 2020. Over this same period of time, the number of personal computers is expected to more than treble, from 1.2 billion to 4 billion. While the current 2% percentage emission is reasonably small compared to the remaining 98% emitted by other industries, ICT has a lot to do in helping reduce further emission of the 98%. The industry has an important leadership role to play – both in mitigating its own impacts and in exploiting its technology to enable emissions reductions in these other industries and business processes. IT is fundamental to enabling us balance the key elements of sustainability - economic, social and environmental elements.
Green IT is not such big news. Green Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are beginning to gain significant traction after years of nominal recognition. However, what will become increasingly important few years down the line is making the IT function more sustainable, and leveraging it to make organizations more sustainable. It is in the light of this, my group have drafted this proposal to our University; Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, suggesting best practices that would enable it become “green” in accordance with its plans to reduce carbon footprint and Go Green on its campus by implementing and using Green Technologies.
In the article, Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices, San Murugesan defines the field of green computing as "the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems—efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment . Data of the Danish Institute of Statistics shows that in 2007 year in 83 percent of family economy there was a computer while in 1990 year this figure was 15 percent. Moreover, 94 percent of family economy with computers have in 2007 year access to the Internet. At last, 98 percent of the Danish companies with more than 10th employees use IT. These figures mean that Denmark has entered epoch of green IT .
However distribution IT has ecological consequences. By estimations of firm Gartner Consulting (Gartner Consulting), the leading research and consulting company on IT, IT is responsible for the same volume of emissions CO2 on a global scale, as well as all aviation industry which volumes of emissions make two percent from total amount of emissions CO2. In the near future influence of IT on environment will get increasing value in the global climatic agenda. We should improve the methods of struggle against harmful influence of IT on environment by more ecologically thought over use of it.
Also researchers have stated that the ICT sector is responsible for 2% of the Greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere with a forecast of 4% increase by 2020. Over this same period of time, the number of personal computers is expected to more than treble, from 1.2 billion to 4 billion. While the current 2% percentage emission is reasonably small compared to the remaining 98% emitted by other industries, ICT has a lot to do in helping reduce further emission of the 98%. The industry has an important leadership role to play – both in mitigating its own impacts and in exploiting its technology to enable emissions reductions in these other industries and business processes. IT is fundamental to enabling us balance the key elements of sustainability - economic, social and environmental elements.
Green IT is not such big news. Green Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are beginning to gain significant traction after years of nominal recognition. However, what will become increasingly important few years down the line is making the IT function more sustainable, and leveraging it to make organizations more sustainable. It is in the light of this, my group have drafted this proposal to our University; Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, suggesting best practices that would enable it become “green” in accordance with its plans to reduce carbon footprint and Go Green on its campus by implementing and using Green Technologies.
IT is not just device or program, it is a chain of systems that are related between themselves, which includes hardware, software, databases, telecommunications, procedures. It relies heavily on a complicated mix of people including IT personnel’s and end-users, network and networking devices, hardware and their manufacturers as well as software and their manufacturers. Nowadays, we can see that IT is the basic driving element of the whole world. Limkokwing University of Creative Technology is one of those places, which works on creating and building new technologies. From this follows that going green on our campus must cover all aspects of our university. The most challenging aspect will involve management issues which includes the restructuring that will come with going green, execution of standards and Return On Investment.
