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

Introduction

There’s a bewildering mass of information to sift through for managers involved with a programme of Green IT work.

This guide is intended to help you navigate through all that information a little more easily by giving it a structure and by outlining some practical examples of techniques and solutions that IT departments, including ours, have adopted in this area.

It is not meant to be a detailed technical guide, a long list of statistics, a prescriptive ‘do these 10 things or the earth gets it’ set of laws, or a boast that I know all the answers (I certainly don’t). It’s partly for those people, scared by terms such as ‘ISO14001 compliance’, who are looking for an alternative way to get started.

So, hopefully you will find it helpful. ...