Author Kevin Kushner, CEO of Seattle-based company Verdiem, which distributes energy-efficiency software to public and private sector entities, launched last month a book called Energy Efficiency – The Future is Now.
One of the topics he analyses in the book is how IT companies are facing the challenge to reduce energy consumption by computer chips and monitors.
After decades of browser wars, software wars, operating system wars and hardware wars, Silicon Valley finally has found common ground in the fight against climate change. The same brainy entrepreneurs who spearheaded the Internet Revolution are now busy at work driving the Clean Energy Revolution in a bid to transform the fossil-fuel era in real-time…The problem deepens when you realize that only about 6 percent of users enable power management functions on their PCs. If all U.S. offices switched their imaging equipment to new Energy Star-qualified products, we’d save more than $1 billion in electricity costs and prevent the emission of more than 30 million pounds of greenhouse gases.
Meanwhile, those of you interested in learning more about how to use a computer in a more environmentally friendly way, check out Greener Computing for tips and news on what’s going on in the IT world. We all use computers now so it’s everyone’s business.
