The document outlines a roadmap for implementing green IT practices. It discusses establishing a baseline of current energy usage and emissions. It then recommends short-term initiatives like power management and virtualization to reduce energy costs. Long-term, it suggests a strategic sustainability plan involving stakeholders to transition the organization to more eco-friendly IT through initiatives like green procurement, equipment refurbishing, and responsible e-waste recycling. The roadmap provides a framework for organizations to systematically improve their environmental performance through innovative technology solutions.

1. Roadmap for ‘green’ IT

2. Roadmap for Green IT
Dr Claire
Cosgrove
“Greener &
Smarter ICT”
Royal
University for
Women
16 May 2012

3. Roadmaps are a navigation tool to help us find
our way.
how to
navigate
how to get
from A  B
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4. This presentation will be a roadmap for a sustainable
Information & Communication Technology (ICT) service
Eco-Efficiency
Eco-Innovation
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5. What do we understand by this
term: eco-efficiency?
• The concept of eco-efficiency is about finding ways to
deliver competitively priced goods and services that satisfy
human needs and enhance quality of life while
progressively reducing the ecological impacts and resource
intensity of products and services to levels that are in line
with the earth’s estimated carrying capacity (WCSBD
1992).
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6. Or more simply . . .
• Improving eco-efficiency - achieving the
same or better levels of economic value
with the same or better levels of
environmental performance

7. And eco-innovation
• either improving the performance of
existing technologies, or creating new
technologies

8. All 21st century organizations need to manage the
eco- impact of their IT services.
Need innovative
solutions
To drive sustainable
solutions
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9. A team of professionals striving to achieve a competitive
advantage via sustainable practice & innovative
technology. Sustainability Officers
IT Managers Facility Managers
Purchasing & Tech Industry Professionals
Procurement
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10. How these roles are interrelated?
• IT Managers – turn their • Facility Management –
knowledge in action plans design & manage
sustainable buildings with
• Sustainability / CSR high tech equipment
Officers – understand ICT
role & development of • P&P – cost-saving
sustainable organisation sustainable strategies for
purchasing & supply-chain &
• Tech Professionals lead EPP
organisation with sustainable
operations

11. Why Green IT?
Our appetite for electronics and energy is outpacing our supply
of renewable and non-renewable resources
Because the world population is increasing rapidly,
exponentially
Because we are generating GHG at an exhaustive rate
Because we generate excessive e-waste
Because we are producing lethal toxic & hazardous wastes
……..
Require socially responsible action
Smart resource usage
Savey technological innovations

12. IT is part of the problem while at the
same time IT is part of the solution
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13. Green IT has significant bottom-line benefits for any
organisation
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14. There is a need to establish the baseline of progress
towards sustainable best practice in various areas.
Management Energy Usage &
Processes climate change
Materials / Health & Safety
Resources
Waste IT Innovation
production
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15. We cannot measure our improvements if we do not
have a baseline of energy consumption and carbon
emissions
Green IT Strategy
requires a
Green IT Index
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16. We need to calculate, track and account for IT energy
consumption & carbon emissions for every IT service
Profile the IT services of your organization
Create an IT roadmap of green
initiatives
Reduce energy usage &
carbon emissions & save
BDs
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17. we keep addressing carbon emissions & energy usage . . .
CARBON EMISSIONS

18. ICT fastest growing energy
consuming sector
ICT global carbon emissions – est 2 -2.5% world
total carbon emissions
Same as airline industry
Developed nations ICT carbon emissions 5-6%
ICT sector’s carbon footprint expected to triple from 2002
figures in 2020

19. ICT & Office Energy
Office energy consumption – min 20% used by
ICT systems
max 70%
ICT energy expenses – presently 10% overall budget
2006 Gartner Report predicts that this will increase to 50%
e.g. Google already spends more on energy consumption than on
server expenses

20. The IT strategy needs to focus not just on reduction
of carbon emissions but be more inclusive in other
areas also.
Life cycle environmental
impact
From supply chain to
operational use
Retirement & Disposal
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21. Even goldfish have a strategy

22. Starting an IT Sustainability Plan is a challenge for a
number of reasons. The IT Infrastructure
has grown incrementally
may be spread out across
an organisation
Asset lists - different
Redesign Baseline naming conventions
Organisational barriers –
not endorse sustainability
initiatives
Evaluate
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23. Initial step is to create a snapshot of all your
networked equipment
Produce a summary of
energy demands and waste Define priorities
patterns
Baselining current energy consumption and
waste production /carbon footprint provides
the necessary data for setting goals
Define short term action DEVISE LONG TERM
SUSTAINABILITY PLAN
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24. Aspects that need to be evaluated in terms of
energy, time, cost, savings factors.
Power
Replace CRTs management
Printer
Extend life
consolidation
Virtualisation Cloud
computing
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25. Green IT roadmap should
include
• Summary of usage • Differentiate between
patterns high potential
• Evaluate systems for measures and low-
potential savings yield efforts
• Estimate time to •  prioritize
execute plan •  timeline
• Calculate present
costs and potential
savings
• Determine difficulty of
implementing

26. • Calculate energy and waste
Data • Determine costs
• Short term action / savings
Short • Prioritize action plan
term
• Efficiency plan
Merge • Measure results / reassess
Long
• Stakeholder buy-in
term • IT savings
Green
• Strategic direction
IT • Involve all stakeholders

27. Let’s look at electronic production . . .
130M new
PC’s / year
1B cell
phones /
year
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28. E-waste
FASTEST GROWING WASTE
STREAM GLOBALLY

29. This brings us to the concept of e-Waste (aka WEEE)
500M obsolete
computers in
USA / past 10
years
ONLY 12% obsolete computers and discarded
mobiles are recycled per year
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30. Now compare electronic waste with other waste
items (USA statistics – Municipal Solid Waste (MSW))
Solid waste items are recycled at
rate closer to 42%
Household appliance
recycled at a rate of 70%
E-Waste only 2%
MSW by weight
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31. BUT there is always a ‘but’
E-Waste accounts for 70%
heavy metals in landfill
E-waste accounts for
40% lead in landfill
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32. And what happens to e-waste that does not go to the
landfill?
Exported to
developing nations
Disassembled by hand
– or burned in open air
EVEN
Dumped at seas
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33. And what happens to e-waste that does not go to the
landfill?
Stockpiled locally –
USA 70% obsolete
systems
Waiting for disposal
solutions
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34. Practical example
• Use power • e.g. average
management to computer and monitor
reduce energy waste combination
• Switch from free consumes 2000 kWh
running to power electricity per year
managed • Use power
management and
save 500-1000 kWh
per year

35. Practical example
• Use power • e.g. replace desktop
management to computers with
reduce energy waste laptops with LCD
monitors
• power usage ~ 570
kWh per year

36. What kind of financial savings is
this?
• USA figures – energy • SAVINGS!!!
costs of 0.15c per • US$100,000 per year
kWh (2007)
• organisation with 500
computers
• Switch to power
management

37. Practical examples
• Printer default • Reprogramme users’
settings mindset
– e.g. double sided – Preview
– Select relevant page
ONLY
– Margins
– # pages per sheet

38. Requires systematic planning, buy-in across
organisation, staffing and funding
baseline measurement
evaluation
planning – short term and long term
execution
re-assessment
ACT ON ECO-RESPONSIBILITY

39. OTHER OPTIONS

40. Green IT Initiatives
Teleworking – reduce transportation emissions
Smart energy applications – adjust energy
consumption to real time needs and climate
conditions
Virtualization – eliminate wasteful network
equipment, reduce energy consumption , reduce
floor space requirements

41. Energy Management Systems
Server rooms currently consume excessive energy and actually waste 30-60%
Integrated planning – use of modern technology – use best
energy management systems - could reduce power
consumption 50-80%
Also reduce the floor space allocated will also reduce
energy consumption – up to 65%
How can this be done?
High-efficiency technology for cooling
power sourcing
virtualization techniques

42. Green supply chains
Procurement Departments seeking EPP – environmentally
preferred purchasing
IT sector needs to work with Sustainability Officer and
Purchasing Dept to secure the most desirable providers
The need to evaluate life cycle environmental footprint of
suppliers and buyers
Requires communicating & educating suppliers of the green
needs and expectations
This is an approach to sustainable supply-chain initiatives

43. Environmentally preferred
purchasing - EPP
Look for Energy Star compliance or EPEAT guidelines

44. Universities campuses
• Capitalize on training • EXTEND LIFE IT
opportunities hardware
• Awareness of waste • REFURBISH
cycle hardware
• Value of 3R’s • RESELL REBUILT
• Build up IT technical PC’s
skills
• Prepare for workplace
readiness

45. Other IT / E-waste initiatives
• Recycle mobiles
• Partner with
RecycleIT
• Awareness
campaigns

46. Unregulated energy waste are
fast becoming a thing of the past
Governments around the globe are implementing
carbon emission capping measures
Implementing environmental regulations to apply to
IT sector

47. Responsible Recycling
R2 is a standard using downstream
auditing to ensure that electronics
recyclers are operating to the highest
international environmental, health,
safety and security standards.
There are systems to track materials as
they move down the supply chain,
providing a fully auditable chain of
custody.

48. E-waste programmes
Action plans from producers to suppliers to end user back to
suppliers and on to producers
Educational awareness programmes – schools,
communities, organisations, nation-wide
Government impose a fee on purchase items for recycling
expenses downstream
Purchase recycled policy
Buy-back policy of suppliers

49. General Summation
Plan and strategize Green IT riadmap
Energy management systems
Purchase greener electronic products
Reduce /reuse minimise impact of products being
used
Dispose of obsolete products in environmentally
safe way