Do you adjust your server room thermostat up? Do you set defaults to double-sided printing? Do you monitor your energy consumption? Maintain an efficient heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system?
Do you use manufactured cartridges? Or keep air moving freely? Do you install variable frequency drives on air handling units? How often do you update computer power management features to save energy? Have you ever used solar to charge mobile devices?
These are the sorts of tips the Foundation for IT Sustainability, a non profit organisation founded by Mark Winter, the sales and marketing director of InTechnology, is giving to IT companies and resellers to make them environmentally aware.
Bianca Worth, a consultant to the foundation, says modifying a computer’s power management settings and turning PCs off when they are not in use can save both money and the environment.
She says resellers are advised to do that as a start. “It can be $50 per PC,’’ she says. “Shutting down computers is one of the easiest things you can do from an educational perspective or from a technology perspective.”
She says another obvious way to save the environment and cost is for companies to do double-sided printing. It cuts the paper bill in half. “A lot of companies don’t even do that today,’’ she says. “But it’s pretty simple. You just go and change the settings on your computer; it takes about five minutes to do it.”
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