Lead Your IT Department Toward Environmental Sustainability and Increased Profits
Profitability and environmental consciousness are increasingly going hand in hand.
CIO — Profitability and environmental consciousness are increasingly going hand in hand. That means that your organization's future is more and more becoming dependent on how you address your environmental sustainability. Now is the time to start "greening" your IT department, from cleaning up your data center to reducing overall emissions and improving your hardware recycling efforts. The following resources offer how-to guides, research and analysis, news, advice and opinion features, and two quizzes, as well as a data center energy-management tool meant to help you decrease associated spending and work to improve overall sustainability. Bookmark this page so you've always got it at your fingertips.
Why Green IT Is Better IT
There's a sweet spot where good ethics meet good business. And IT can—and should—be sitting at the nexus.
Can IT Make Your Company Green?
Whether corporate sustainability initiatives stem from regulatory compliance or aim to boost the bottom line, IT plays a key role in supporting such efforts, according to environmental IT experts from three companies.
Improving IT Efficiency While Going Green
Whether your business thrives or dies in the coming decade may depend on how well it manages environmental issues.
Green IT Poll: Are You Thinking 'Green'?
Take our quick, 10-question poll and see how you measure up to your peers.
CIO.com's Green IT blog
CIO Associate Staff Writer Katherine Walsh keeps readers up to date on recent issues related to corporate sustainability.
Rising Energy Costs Reduce Processor Performance Gains
Rising energy costs are short-circuiting performance gains from faster, cheaper servers. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to keep your costs in line.
Green IT: Leaving a Smaller Carbon Footprint
Though the Bush administration has not made preventing global warming a priority, studies show that massive damage will be inflicted on the planet if ozone depletion is not halted.
Green IT: Recycling—It's the Law
Two pieces of decades-old law govern e-waste: the so-called Superfund legislation and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, though it's unclear how forcefully governments enforce these laws in terms of e-waste.
Green IT: What to Do When It's Time to Get Rid of Old Hardware
The hardest thing to do with a computer isn't buying it or setting it up or using it or fixing it. The hardest thing is throwing it away.
'Green IT': Why Environmental Sustainability and Profits Go Hand in Hand
More and more, profitability and environmental consciousness go hand in hand. And as energy supplies dip and proposed solutions lead to bitter political fights, good green ideas couldn't come at a better time. These six environmental innovations are ideas you can use from some of our 2001 CIO 100 honorees.
Green IT: Save Power, Save Money
In 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency asked CIOs to do something Jimmy Carter couldn't convince consumers to do in the 1970s: curb their energy consumption.
The Green Technology Bible
Every movement needs a bible, and the one for the environment-plus-business group is Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Back Bay Books, 2000), written by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins.
Dirty, Hungry IT
A pop quiz for concerned polluters.
