greening your tech ntc 2010
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Slides for the Greening Your Technology session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) 2010 in Atlanta, GA. Learn how to reduce the environmental impact of your information technology and how to effectively use IT to improve your organizations’ efficiency.TRANSCRIPT
Greening Your Technolgy
Green Your IT and Use IT to Green Your Org
Steve Lippman of MicrosoftRobin Billings of the US EPA
David Deal of Community IT Innovators Facilitator: Anna S. Jaeger of TechSoup Global
1. To increase awareness of the environmental impact of desktops, servers and other ICT equipment
2. To provide guidance and opportunities to adopt technology practices that will help reduce that impact
3. To discuss select solutions that will help nonprofits, libraries and other social benefit organizations reduce the environmental impact of their ICT and use ICT to reduce their operational impact.
Take Aways
Agenda• Panel: 35 minutes
Greening Your IT: Hardware and Software
Greening Your Organization: How to Use IT to Reduce Operational impact
• Breakout sessions: 20 minutes
• Group presentations: 15 minutes
• Q&A: 20 minutes
Quick Audience Poll
Who knows what these things are? – Power Management– Virtualization– EPEAT– SaaS
What size is your org? <25 25-100 >100
Why Green Your IT?
• Decrease energy and carbon output
• Increase efficiency and collaboration
• Use compelling technology
• Happy IT people and users
• Happy board
• Save
Framing Stats
• 2% of global CO2 emitted by ICT – Gartner
• Some laptops consume 8.9 watts even when turned OFF. Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
• 50-70% of the lifetime energy consumption of a computer is used before it is ever turned on.
• Cars are responsible for 14% of EU CO2 emissions according to the European Environment Agency (EEA).
The Role of Software in Green IT
Steve Lippman, Director
Environmental Sustainability
Microsoft
Two Big Roles for Software
• Supporting Green IT– Power management– Centralized system management– Virtualization
• Enabling “IT for Green”– Telepresence/travel reduction– Online forms, paper reduction– Footprint tracking and dashboards– Smart grids, smart logistics, etc.
Power Management• Cut PC energy use up to 70%, save about $50
per desktop (NRDC)• Improvements in power management
• Better default settings and idle and active power management built in
• User Account Controls• Tools for IT administrators for remote management:
diagnostics, group policy settings,
wake on LAN
• Free resources: Climate Savers
Computing Initiative, Verdiem’s Edison
Emerging Issue: How Green is the Cloud?
• Do hosted services provide net environmental benefits?
• Potential benefits:– Higher server utilization– Data centers optimized for energy efficiency– Potentially greener energy sources – Avoided hardware
• Case study research ongoing
Robin BillingsUS Environmental Protection Agency
Region 4
Atlanta, Georgia
How to Green Your IT:Green Hardware
EPA Region 4
• EPA consists of 10 Regions + HQ
• Region 4 is the largest Region– 8 southeastern States– largest population– most states
- Promoting and practicing environmental stewardship for electronic products
- Computers and other electronics are the fastest-growing (and among the least recycled) components of the waste stream
- Two million tons of used electronics discarded yearly
Greening Electronics
- A tool, an environmental standard, a rating system, and a verification program
- System that helps purchasers evaluate, compare and select electronic products based on their environmental attributes
- www.epeat.net
Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)
Meets all 23 required
criteria plus at least 75% of the optional
criteria
Meets all 23 required
criteria plus at least 50% of the optional
criteria
Meets all 23 required criteria
EPEAT
EPEAT Criteria are known as (IEEE 1680) American National Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products
Plug-in to eCycling
www.epa.gov/plugin
Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC)
FEC is a voluntary partnership program that encourages federal facilities and agencies to:
- Purchase greener electronic products
- Reduce impacts of electronic products during use
- Manage obsolete electronics in an environmentally safe way
- www.federalelectronicschallenge.net
Energy Star
- Joint program between EPA & DOE provide energy efficient products and practices
- Energy management can produce twice the savings—both the bottom line and the environment
- EPA provides an innovative energy performance rating system which businesses
have already used for more than 96,000 buildings across the country
- www.energystar.gov
Robin Billings
US EPA Region 4
404.562.8515
Buying products made from recycled materials is a key step in supporting recycling programs and resource conservation. Resources are saved only when recycled products are purchased. This is referred to as closing the loop.
Virtualization & Green Practices
David Deal, CEO
Community IT Innovators
Green Practices
• Utilizing IT to green operations
• Examples: – Paperless processes– Smart buildings– Online faxing– Travel reduction– Working with distributed teams
Travel Reduction
• Reduce commuter and business travel• Travel contributes to 50% of CITI’s total
emissions– even with 75% of travel done via public transit,
biking, and walking!
• Remote & mobile access to ICT resources - data, voice, video
• Numerous studies confirming moderate to significant positive environmental impact
Remote & Mobile Data Access
• Remote desktop control– LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, GoToAssist
• Virtual Private Networks• Terminal Services, virtual desktops• Hosting
– SaaS: Exchange, Salesforce, Google Apps, DIA, Convio, etc.
– Moving servers (& desktops?) to the cloud
Server Virtualization
• Software: VMware, MS Hyper-V, Citrix, etc.
• Energy reduction up to 82% (Gartner)
• Small & medium-sized NPO’s (<100 seats) frequently virtualize 3-5 servers on 1 physical server
Server-based Desktop Virtualization
• PCs consume 3x the energy of the datacenter (The Climate Group)
• Energy reduction from 80-100W desktop or 20-40W laptop to 6-8W terminal
• Roaming access!
Working with Distributed Teams
• Web conferencing: – GoToMeeting, WebEx, Ready Talk
• File sharing– Drop.io, Dropbox, SharePoint, not so much Office
Live, Google Docs (yet)• Comprehensive:
– Hyperoffice, Zoho• Extranets/project collaboration:
– Basecamp, SharePoint• Consideration:
ad-hoc vs ongoing teams
Travel reduction: Voice
• Voice over IP & IP Telephony• Virtual/hosted PBX
– Lower startup costs, often lower calling costs– Cost-effective for smaller organizations– BUT: unless they also provide the data
connection (T1) they still don’t control call quality
– May not be for you: large number of users, high call volume, or if you need certain features (ACD)
Travel reduction: Video
• Peer-to-peer, small groups– Skype, etc.
• Hosted– WebEx, Ready Talk, etc.
• On-premises– Polycom, LifeSize, Cisco, etc.
Links
• WWF study on teleworking’s ability to reduce emissions: http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwfteleworking.pdf
• Calculating emissions: http://www.carbonfund.org/site/pages/carbon_calculators/category/Assumptions
• McKinsey study (requires membership): http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/How_IT_can_cut_carbon_emissions_2221
Breakouts
• 3 Groups– Small <25 people - Steve– Med 25-100 people - David– Large > 100 - Robin
Report BackChoose one or two:• One green low hanging fruit that every
NPO of this size should be doing?• What is the stretch green IT solution that
you would implement if you had the resources?
• What are some tools to consider for your size organization?
• What was the big ah-ha from your group?
Questions
Conclusion• Going green doesn’t necessarily mean you have
to spend more money. It can often save money. • Changing the situation is easier than changing
behaviors. • Use greener software, buy greener hardware
and set up defaults to automatically stop waste rather than asking your staff to change.
• Talk with your board, staff, volunteers and/or consultants. Decide which is the best first step for your org.
• Spread the word
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