Green IT in Practice: How one company is approaching the greening of its IT

Preface To First Edition

The objective of this book is to present some ideas for getting a ‘Green IT’ programme established or formalised within an organisation. It approaches this goal primarily by discussing the experience of one company, the John Lewis Partnership, in doing this during 2007 and the first half of 2008.

Chapters cover the link between general Corporate Social Responsibility and Green IT, how to go about constructing appropriate policies and metrics, and some thoughts on how to engage with employees and suppliers. Individual case studies on some key Green IT initiatives are then discussed in turn, before the book ends with a chapter considering how IT can begin to enable carbon footprint reduction in the organisation as a whole. ...