Green Computing: tools and techniques for saving energy, money, and resources
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| adam_text | Contents
Dedication
v
Contents
vii
Preface
xiii
About the Author
xvii
Acknowledgments
xix
Chapter
1
Green Computing and Your Reputation
1
Key Concepts
1
1.1
Reputation as Motivation
1
1.2
Avoiding Greenwash
5
1.3
Social License to Operate
7
1.4
Green Computing and Your Career
9
1.5
Green Computing and Your Department
10
1.6
Green Recruiting and Retention
12
1.7
Getting the Word Out Inside the Company
15
1.8
Getting the Word Out Outside the Company
18
1.9
Summary
20
VII
viii Green Computing
Chapter
2 Green Computing
and Saving Money
21
Key
Concepts
21
2.1
Why Saving Money Is Green
21
2.2
Getting Focused on Money-Saving Efforts
23
2.3
Implementing Energy Efficiency
25
2.4
Changing How Current Devices Are Used
26
2.5
Moving to Cloud Services
28
2.6
Digitizing Non-IT Functions
29
2.7
Greening Your Energy-Saving Moves
32
2.8
Some Big Thinking About Money-Saving Efforts
33
2.9
Summary
34
Chapter
3
Green Computing and the Environment
35
Key Concepts
35
3.1
Environmental Drivers for Green Computing
35
3.2
What Drives the Green Agenda?
36
3.3
Key Roots of Environmentalism
37
3.4
Environmentalism and IT
40
3.5
The New Imperative of Climate Change
41
3.6
A Brief History of the Climate
42
3.7
Al Gore
and Climate Change
45
3.8
The 2°C Warming Limit
47
3.9
Climate Change and IT
48
3.10
What s Next with Climate Change?
49
3.11
What It Means to Go Green
52
3.12
Why IT Is a Climate Change Solution
54
3.13
Career Development and Going Green
56
3.14
Summary
57
Chapter
4
A New Vision of Computing
59
Key Concepts
59
4.1
Cloud Computing Emerges
59
4.2
The End of the PC Era
60
4.3
Some New-Model IT Challenges
63
4.4
A Few Examples from a Multinational
64
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4.5
How a Company Adopted the ¡Phone
65
4.6
A Mental Model for IT Simplicity
66
4.7
Why Green Computing Fits the New Model
67
4.8
Is Cloud Computing the Whole Answer?
70
4.9
Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
71
4.10
Managing Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
72
4.11
What to Do Besides Cloud Computing
74
4.12
Efficiency and Cloud Computing
75
4.13
Greenability and Cloud Computing
76
4.14
Responsibility, Usability, and Cloud Computing
80
4.15
The Philosophical Implications of Green Computing
81
4.16
The Zen of Green Computing
83
4.17
Summary
88
Chapter
5
Building a Green Device Portfolio
89
Key Concepts
89
5.1
Introduction
89
5.2
Why Green Works for Device Purchases
90
5.3
Pushing Computing Down the Device Pyramid
92
5.4
Another Dimension of Device Pyramid Greenness
93
5.5
Green Computing and Embodied Energy
94
5.6
Green Computing and Running Costs
96
5.7
Planned Obsolescence Isn t Green
99
5.8
Green Computing and Device Disposal
101
5.9
The Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics
103
5.10
Support Employees Device Choices
107
5.11
Publicizing Your Process
108
5.12
Summary
109
Chapter
6
Finding Green Devices
111
Key Concepts
111
6.1
What Makes a Device Green?
111
6.2
What Makes a Supplier Green?
113
6.3
CaseStudy: HP vs. Dell
117
6.4
Giving Suppliers and Vendors Feedback
119
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Green Computing
6.5
Publicizing Your Selection Process and the Winner
120
6.6
A Sample Statement of Green Buying Principles
122
6.7
Desktop Computers 123
6.8
Laptops
l¿3
6.9
Sustainability and Failure to Supply
128
6.10
The Case of Windows
8
129
6.11
Tablets 131
6.12
Less Computer and Computer-less Solutions
132
6.13
Summary
132
Chapter
7
Green Servers and Data Centers
133
Key Concepts
133
7.1
Choosing and Creating Green Data Centers
133
7.2
Green Data Centers as a Model
136
7.3
The Last Shall Be First
... 136
7.4
What Makes a Data Center Green?
137
7.5
Building and Power Supply Considerations
138
7.6
Servers, Storage, and Networking
139
7.7
Data Center Suppliers
141
7.8
Summary
142
Chapter
8
Saving Energy
143
Key Concepts
143
8.1
Saving Energy Serves Many Masters
143
8.2
Cost Savings through Energy Savings
144
8.3
Risk Reduction through Energy Savings
145
8.4
Carbon Footprint Reduction through Energy
Savings
147
8.5
Improving Your Reputation and Brand
149
8.6
Why Energy Prices Will Stay High
151
8.7
Embodied Energy
153
8.8
Analyzing Your Energy Usage
154
8.9
A Recipe for Energy Savings
155
8.10
Understanding the Unique Energy Needs of IT
158
8.11
Focusing on Solar Power
159
8.12
Saving Energy and the Supply Chain
161
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8.13
Energy-Saving Pilot Projects
162
8.14
Selling Energy Savings
163
8.15
Summary
165
Chapter
9
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
167
Key Concepts
167
9.1
Why Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Important
167
9.2
Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases and
Warming
170
9.3
Is There Still Doubt About Climate Change?
172
9.4
Why Are There Still Doubters and
Deniers?
174
9.5
What If I Work for Doubters and
Deniers?
176
9.6
So What s Next with Climate Change?
177
9.7
Reducing Emissions I: Embodied Energy
179
9.8
Reducing Emissions II: Daily Energy Use
180
9.9
Reducing Emissions III: Taking Steps to Use
Different Sources
181
9.10
Reducing Emissions IV: Supply Chain Success
182
9.11
Summary
183
Chapter
10
Reducing Resource Use
185
Key Concepts
185
10.1
Why Resource Use Is Important
185
10.2
A Resource Use Checklist
188
10.3
Planned Obsolescence and Resource Use
191
10.4
The Story of Apple and EPEAT
192
10.5
Case Study: Computer Hardware and RSI
193
10.6
Summary
195
Chapter
11
Green Computing by Industry Segment
197
Key Concepts
197
11.1
Evaluating Greenness
197
11.2
The Newsweek Green
500
Approach
199
11.2.1
Why the Newsweek Green
500
Approach
Works
203
11.2.2
Looking at Industry Segments
204
xü Green
Computing
11.3
Analyzing Your Own Initiatives, Company, and
Sector
210
11.4
Summary
212
Chapter
12
The Future: Deep Green Computing
213
Key Concepts
213
12.1
Green Computing and the Future
213
12.2
Megatrends for Green Computing
215
12.2.1
An Increasing Need for Sustainability
215
12.2.2
The Continually Decreasing Cost of Core
Computing Capabilities
217
12.2.3
The Ability of Computing to Do More
and More
220
12.3
Telepresence Instead of Travel
221
12.4
Telecommuting Instead of Commuting
223
12.5
Toward Deep Green Computing
226
12.6
Platforms for Deep Green Computing
227
12.7
Selling Deep Green Computing
230
12.8
Summary
232
References
233
Index
235
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