Power to change: the environmental impact of computing
By Mauricio Freitas, in
Technology, posted: 9-JUN-2009 17:34
Earlier this week I posted about HP's Power to Change campaign in our Geekzone news section. This morning (5am!) a group of bloggers attended a conference call with the HP team in the U.S. responsible for this campaign and a communications channel was open that allows us to provide feedback to the team.One of the initiatives of this campaign is a Adobe AIR-based (read: platform independent) widget that can run while you are logged in and will monitor your PC usage in terms of hours. You can then send daily feedback in terms of how many hours your PC is running every day - and in return the widget shows some update statistics in terms of environmental impact of changes, including the amount of energy saved and carbon emissions reduced.
A 2004 study for example shows that 64% of business desktop users and 24% of laptop users do not switch off their PCs at the end of the days.
HP employees are involved in this program using intranet to distribute information, updating country websites to reflect the program, distributing stickers, internal videos, and more. HP is also running a Power to Change blog.
So what's in here for us?
First I invite you to download the Power to Change widget.
Then check some of these resources:
• Main resource page on HP environmental initiatives: www.hp.com/go/environment
• Energy tips for computing: www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/education/energytips.html
• Environmental videos: www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/education/eco-videos.html
And last post here what you or your company are doing to change the way you use computing to reduce the environmental impact. Things like distributing internal information, asking employees to turn off their PCs when leaving the office, using virtual environments to run multiple servers, going through technology refreshes replacing old equipments with modern version, etc.
You can also post suggestions here (or in our forum discussion). Everything you post here I am happy to relay back to HP.
So, what are you doing?
Other related posts:
Some New Zealand companies don't like user feedback
What is wrong with TiVo in New Zealand?
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Comment by alfred neumann, on 13-JUL-2009 15:12
i've seen them.
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Comment by alfred neumann, on 7-JUL-2009 18:05
distributing plastic stickers about the environmental impact of ....
wow.