Green IT: Minimizing the Environmental Footprint of Your Technology Systems

A significant source of energy consumption--and one that individuals, nonprofits and businesses can directly impact--is computer usage. If you assume that the typical desktop computer draws about 100 watts of power and you run that every day (even leaving the computer in "idle" mode at night and on the weekends uses power), the environmental and financial costs of an individual computer quickly add up--to the tune of $100 a year or more, and that doesn't include a monitor, printer or other peripherals. read more...