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Contents
• Introduction
• What is Green Computing
• Why Go For Green Computing
• How Computing Harm Environment
• Origin
• Road to Green Computing
• Approaches to Green Computing
• Simple Tasks for Go Green
• Industrial Implementation
• Steps by Some Companies
• Conclusion

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 What is Green Computing?
• Green computing or green IT, refers to
environmentally sustainable computing or IT.
• It is "the study and practice of Designing,
Manufacturing, Using, and Disposing of
computers, servers, and associated subsystems
efficiently and effectively with minimal or no
impact on the environment.

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 Why Go For Green Computing
• Today, the main problem of the world is
Global warming.
• The atmosphere is becoming hot & is causing
many problems to living organisms.
• Computers also play a major role in polluting
the world.

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 How Computing Harm Environment

• Increase in power, cooling and space for data

center.
• 2007-$4.5 billion of electricity
• 2011-$7.4 billion of electricity(25 power
plants)
• 2011-Double CO2 output ( 62 million metric
tons)

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 How Computing Harm Environment

• By electronic appliances.
• Desktop requires 85 watts just to idle(Monitor
off)
• Left on 24 hrs/day-1,500 pounds of CO2 per
year.
• A tree absorbs between 3 and 15 pounds of
CO2 each year.(up to 500 trees)

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 How Computing Harm Environment

• According to reports from the German Federal

Environment Office, devices consume around
17 billion (kWh) in a year in standby mode.
• The CO2 dissipated from „sleeping‟ devices =
1/7th the CO2 emitted by an automobile.
• Manufacturers do not provide a proper shut-off
button in devices.
• Windows Vista‟s default shut down mode is a
deep sleep mode that requires power.
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 How Computing Harm Environment

• Hazardous materials inside computers.

• These contain
– Cadmium(damage your kidneys)
– Mercury(neurological damage)
– Lead(disrupt brain neurotransmitters).

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 Origin
• In 1992, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
launched Energy Star, a voluntary labelling program
which is designed to promote and recognize energy-
efficiency in monitors, climate control equipment,
and other technologies.
– Saved $14 billion in energy costs in 2006 alone.
– Widespread adoption of sleep mode
• EPEAT, is focused on promoting energy efficient
products.

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 Road to Green Computing

• Green Use
• Green Disposal
• Green Design
• Green Manufacturing

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 Approaches to Green Computing

Virtualization:
• It includes Server virtualization,
Consolidation, Storage consolidation &
Desktop virtualization.
• Our typical computer used up to a 250-watt
power supply; our thin client uses a 4.8-watt
power supply.

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 Approaches to Green Computing
Power management:
• Prolong battery life.
• Reduce cooling requirements.
• Reduce noise.
• Reduce operating costs for energy and cooling.
• Lower power consumption.
• The ACPI, an open industry standard
• Under volting programs
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 Approaches to Green Computing
Storage:
• Among 3.5" desktop hard drive, 2.5" laptop
hard drive and a solid state hard drive (SSD);
(SSD) consumes less power than other disks.

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 Approaches to Green Computing
Display:
• LCD displays: use a CCF bulb
• LED displays: use an array of LEDs
• LCD monitors uses 3 times less when active,
and 10 times less energy when in sleep mode.
• LCDs are up to 66% more energy efficient.
• LCDs are also smaller in size and weight.
• 21" CRT typically uses more than 120W.
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 Approaches to Green Computing
IT Equipment Recycling:
• If you can extend the working life of your IT
products, you reduce the environmental
consequences of mining, manufacture,
packaging, shipping and disposal.
• Many organizations, including some
manufacturers themselves, are willing to take
equipment back and recycle the components
into new products.
• electronictakebackcampain.com

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 Approaches to Green Computing

Product Longevity:
• Gartner maintains that the PC manufacturing
process accounts for 70 % of the natural
resources used in the life cycle of a PC.
• Another report from Gartner recommends to
"Looking for product longevity, including
upgradability and modularity."

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 Approaches to Green Computing
Remote Conferencing & Telecommuting Strategies:
Given recent jumps in fuel costs and greater
awareness of harm caused by greenhouse gas
emissions, many companies wish to reduce travel to
cut costs and decrease negative impact on the
environment.
The initiatives in this study consist of the following:
• Remote Conferencing & Collaboration.
• Video-conferencing and teleconferencing.
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 Approaches to Green Computing
Operating System Support:
• Windows 7 includes refinements for more efficient
user of operating system timers, processor power
management, and display panel brightness.
• Linux Os utilizing less resources than other os, and
also have a better power management facility.
Terminal servers:
• Terminals can be combined with thin clients, which
use up to 1/8 the amount of energy of a normal
workstation.
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 Approaches to Green Computing
Algorithmic efficiency:
• The Efficiency of algorithms is used to describe
properties of an algorithm relating to how much
resources it consumes.
• Algorithms are the base of any computing system
or electronic device, each and every computer
chip has a certain algorithm that allows it to
complete its function.
• Even though these chips are small, they use a lot
of power.
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 Simple Tasks for Go Green
• Buy and use a low power desktop or a laptop
computer (40-90 watts) rather a higher power desktop
(e.g. 300 watts).
• Thin clients can use only 4 to 8 watts of power at the
desktop as the processing is done by a server.
• Buy hardware from manufacturers that have a
hardware recycling scheme, and recycle your old
computer equipment rather than sending it to landfill.

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 Simple Tasks for Go Green
• Turn your computer and monitor off when you
are not using it.
• Enable hibernation using the power
management settings. Standby does not save as
much power.
• Replace your CRT screen with an LCD screen.
• Save Your Paper!
• Green Print Saves Too!
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 Simple Tasks for Go Green
• Use Linux (such as Ubuntu), which requires
less resources than many other operating
systems on an older computer as a spare or a
file server.
• Use blade servers instead of rack or standalone
servers to reduce power consumption.

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 Industrial Implementation

• Blackle(74~59 wt)(saves 750mw)

• Fit-PC(compact, quiet and green)
• Zonbu Computer
• Sunray thin client

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Appearance of Blackle

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 Steps by Apple
• MacBook keyboards are made from one single
piece of aluminum
• MacBook pro notebooks have long lasting
batteries where as a normal notebook uses
three batteries a MacBook will only use one
through out its life time.

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 Steps by DELL

• Their free world-wide product recycling

program allows user to properly dispose their
product safely.
• Their “Plant a tree for me” project can offset a
customers carbon emissions for only three
dollars.

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 Conclusion
• Green computing can lead to a lot of energy
savings, reduction in emission of co2 & CFC’s
which leads to environment protection.
• It also leads to serious cost savings overtime.

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 Reference & Resources
[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_computing
[2]. http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8744027
[3]. www.climatesaverscomputing.org
[4]. Green IT For Dummies-Hewlett Packard Limited
Edition

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