Green Computing

Green Computing

Green computing is important because it aims to minimize negative environmental impacts through the responsible use of electronics, through the creation of energy-efficient designs, the implementation of recycling programs, and designing of manufacturing processes that minimize waste.

It’s goal to reduce the hazardous material, maximize energy efficiency during the product’s lifetime and promote the recyclability of computer products. This goal can affect different aspects of computing and IT.

Green computing can helps on preventing global warming that cause of improper function in the natural atmosphere.

Energy efficiency allows to minimize the impact of electronic waste in natural environment by building up application that can save energy. Developing a data center ecosystem is one way to optimize the energy and material used in reducing environmental impact. IBM is one of the leading companies in the world that implement green computing for their data center infrastructure.

As of today, some smaller businesses may not yet be ready for virtualization. But then again, these businesses can also benefit from consolidation and more efficient server designs.

Another strategy includes Recycling waste products.  Sony, Toshiba and Apple financially responsible for recycling their old products. Nokia is offering recycling programs for mobile phones. Even local companies in the Philippines can do waste sorting. They may impose financial incentives in initiating the recycling behavior and make it a daily habit.

Another is telecommuting. Nowadays Work from home is a way of reducing hundreds of workers in workplace.  Less carbon is emitted by transportation vehicles.

Cloud computing and virtualization technology can save capital, floor space and energy by consolidating multiple workloads onto fewer physical servers.

Thin client is a way to save on energy use from PC’s and data centers.  

Supporting the use of modern technology is a key to highly industrialize our economy, however, we must be responsible with our environment.  

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