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November 05, 2008, 02:38 PM ET
Is Your Campus Pursuing Green Technology?
The latest issue of Sustainability: The Journal of Record includes an article about green-IT efforts at colleges, corporations, and civic institutions. The short article is a survey of some of the major things that are going on in green IT, including the increasing use of “dumb terminals” or “thin clients” to cut power use, a reduction in the numbers of servers that need to be cooled, and the use of videoconferencing to cut down on travel.
The article relates a story about how the College of Southern Nevada cut its data footprint in half and saved thousands by consolidating servers.
Green IT seems to be catching fire out there among techies, but you still don’t hear a lot about it in campus-sustainability circles — and that may be because of a cultural divide. Sustainability conversations tend to focus on issues like recycling, local food, energy use in buildings, transportation on campuses, and other issues that are to agriculture, architecture, and urban planning, fields that have grappled with sustainability for a long time. There is just not a long and prominent tradition of greens among computer geeks. But that may change.
We’re wondering if you’re pursuing green IT at your institution. Fill out the poll below and find out what your colleagues are up to. —Scott Carlson
Are you pursuing green practices or green technology in your IT department? ( polls)
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