Sidebar: How to Go Green
Every effort counts
Naomi Moneypenny, vice president research, content and technology at ManyWorlds, offers these suggestions for CIOs:
- Energy management, which not only ensures that all computers are on power management cycles, but encourage users to shut down their PCs at night, even at home.
- Supporting recycled plastics and materials in products such as mice and keyboards.
- The CIO should support paper recycling, even though direct responsibility for recycling bin availability may fall under the domain of the facilities manager.
- Integrating energy consumption into building design (such as the solar panels that are so popular at Google). The CIO can support these efforts with measuring data and appropriate reporting to stakeholders.
- Staging the shifts of a manager's employees so they spend less time in peak traffic (thus less air pollution). Sponsor programs for ride sharing and tech talk at the same time.
- Ensuring that suppliers globally have the same standards and environmental practices that the CIO's corporation does.
- Providing a screen saver tip or other daily tip mechanism to encourage employees to reduce energy consumption.
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