| Topic : Green IT Initiatives @ Corporates |
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last activity : 01 11 2011 07:28:37 +0000
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Aim for paperless office & LCD monitors
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Aim for less-paper offices and LED
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Compensate vs regulate
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Better AC Utilisation in server room
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Better AC Utilisation in server room
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Aim for paperless office
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Reuse papers and envelopes for internal office use.
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Encourage, Motivate , Implement and Reward Employees
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Please participate and give your ideas
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using local intra net facility
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Modify your working environment and maxim usage of sunlight
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Modify your working environment and maxim usage of sunlight
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Make paper usage nil. Make printing a difficult job with lots of controls and approvals. Avoid using high power consuming monitors. Switch terminals off, when you are talking on the phone while at work Try and use less heat dissipating processors and keep the place well ventilated so that machines work efficiently |
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Thanks for the apt reply Raghu. Have you heard about NASSCOM's action plan on Green IT on policy and regulatory framework which they have defined.
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Having paperless offices requires the facilitating and regulating environments to be paperless too. The Government/Regulatory agencies have a long way to go before becoming paperless.So realistically, businesses as of now must strive to be less-paper organizations. LED technology is promising and is the way to go in my opinion. |
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Yes, that's the way to go. I would also like to add that whoever can, should adopt working on a cloud. Save on transport, office electricity etc, and sit under the cool shade of a tree and do what you do.
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Since you cannot compensate the emissions you create by planting trees since earth would not be big enough (for instance, to compensate for a plane-ticket from europe to asia, you'll have to plant about 180 trees and leave them for the duration of a 100 years), the key to "Green IT" will be reducing the amount of energy used. Enforce some rules in the office:
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Planting trees & taking the measures you suggested are not mutually exclusive.
'Compensate AND regulate' is what i take home from this brilliant insight
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Traditional servers had a very low heat footprint of 1-2 KW at the most. Traditional Room ACs were sufficient to cool the room. Todays specialised servers have a heat footprint olmost or more than 10 times this - they are in the region of 20 - 25 KW. This creates a lot of hot-spots. Instead of having standard room cooling ACs we now need to have specialised Rack Cooling ACs where the AC load is delivered directly at the hot spot. This will drastically reduce the overall AC requirements. Perhaps a mix of general room airconditioners for traditional servers and PCs and specialised Rack/Row oriented ACs for these specialised high density high power servers can do the trick of reducing the overall AC load
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Traditional servers had a very low heat footprint of 1-2 KW at the most. Traditional Room ACs were sufficient to cool the room. Todays specialised servers have a heat footprint olmost or more than 10 times this - they are in the region of 20 - 25 KW. This creates a lot of hot-spots. Instead of having standard room cooling ACs we now need to have specialised Rack Cooling ACs where the AC load is delivered directly at the hot spot. This will drastically reduce the overall AC requirements. Perhaps a mix of general room airconditioners for traditional servers and PCs and specialised Rack/Row oriented ACs for these specialised high density high power servers can do the trick of reducing the overall AC load
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By removing paper glass (if it used to drink water) and giving Bottle to employees.... similar can be done with Tea/Coffee paper-cup...
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Almost all of us use papersfor some purpose or other like printouts etc and almost all printouts has some unmarked area left like the other side of the paper etc. Also after a few days the printouts are not needed. These papers can be reused for taking notes or other purposes. Also envelopes can be reused for internal office purposes like submitting hard copy proofs for claims etc |
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Every employee must think about this and it is definitely not an individual contributor role. Encourage and Motivate employees to think on this and get some remarkable ideas from them and reward those who gives the best soloution.
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How well can a company implement Green IT ? |
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WHEN COMING TO GREEN IT INFRASTRUCTURE
1. WE REDUCE THE PAPERS
2. REDUCING THE SENDING MAILS WITHOUT USING INTERNET
FOR SOLUTION PURPOSE I AM USING THE LOCAL INTRANET T REDUCE THE COST OF PAPERS AND REDUCE THE POLLUTION ALSO
WHEN I RECRUIT THE EMPLOYEES IN THAT TIME I AM USING THE ONLINE WRITTEN TEST ONLY
AND I AM GIVING THE SALARY TO THE EMPLOYEES ONLINE TRANSACTIONS MODE (TOKENS )ONLY THAT MEANS NOT GIVING THE CHECKS
FIRST I BANNED THE SMOKING AND ACHIEVING OF TOBACCO AND PAN IN MY WHOLE COMPANY DURING THE WORKING HOUR IF ANY BODY VIOLATION THIS MEANS THEN HE SHOULD LOSS HIS SOME AMOUNT OF SALARY
IN THE COMPANY CANTEEN WE PROVIDE THE STEEL & GLASS PLATES ARRANGING AND PLASTIC AND PAPERS ARE BANNED IN CANTEEN ALSO
WHEN COMING TO CAMPUS MY COMPANY HAVE THE AT LEAST 5 HECTOR LAND IN THAT LAND I BUILT THE 1 HECTOR FOR COMPANY BUILDING AND REMAINING WILL BE GARDEN MEANS GREEN CORRIDORS
WHO ARE THE EMPLOYEES WORKING IN MY FIRM THEY SHOULD BY ONLY PETROL USING VEHICLES ONLY
AND I AM HAVING GOOD SOLUTION FOR THIS INTRANET
I HAD DEVELOPED A NIRA (NEW INTERNET DOMAIN ALGORITHM) PROJECT FOR OVER COME THE DRAWBACKS OF THE LOCAL INTRANET THING
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We can modify our working environment as allowing more sunlight to get inside. By this we can avoid usage of high power bulbs and tubes even @ day time. IBM and Siemens has come forward to implement these sorts of techniques. Think of earlier days how the houses are constructed. The vasthu is also let the same. We descent dont use the techniques of our ancestors. |
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We can modify our working environment as allowing more sunlight to get inside. By this we can avoid usage of high power bulbs and tubes even @ day time. IBM and Siemens has come forward to implement these sorts of techniques. Think of earlier days how the houses are constructed. The vasthu is also let the same. We descendant dont use the techniques of our ancestors. |
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