Idea Challenge
We want to be a sustainable office. Help us with your ideas!
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Improve the little things: paper consumption, electricity consumption, water consumption
Recycled paper in the printer, always turn off the light, boil only as much water as we really need, ...
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Radical changes
We at least have to move with the office, to a building with solar power and geothermal energy, to set up our IT completely new, every single employee would have to rethink. We cannot cheat ourselves further with such alibi solutions.
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Green electricity
As an organisation, we should purchase green electricity, and in the best case install solar panels on the roof. We all sit at our desks all day and use electricity - we need to find better solutions for this.
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Green IT
Our IT must become more sustainable:
"ICT causes about 2-3% of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, a quantity that even exceeds the emissions of the entire aviation industry (BMU/UBA/BITKOM Annual Conference 2010) According to a Fraunhofer study commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), ICT accounted for 10.5% of total German electricity consumption in 2007. According to the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), this caused 33 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. An increase in electricity consumption of 20% is predicted by 2020. Worldwide, the PC market continues to develop rapidly with an annual growth rate of almost 12% (IT market research and consulting firm Gartner). Especially due to the steady increase in ICT infrastructures, i.e. servers and data centers, and the resulting need for cooling, power consumption and thus the environmental impact remain at a high level.
Green IT is an important issue for the success of a …
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Improve the little things: paper consumption, electricity consumption, water consumption
Recycled paper in the printer, always turn off the light, boil only as much water as we really need, ...
Radical changes
We at least have to move with the office, to a building with solar power and geothermal energy, to set up our IT completely new, every single employee would have to rethink. We cannot cheat ourselves further with such alibi solutions.
Green electricity
As an organisation, we should purchase green electricity, and in the best case install solar panels on the roof. We all sit at our desks all day and use electricity - we need to find better solutions for this.
Green IT
Our IT must become more sustainable:
"ICT causes about 2-3% of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, a quantity that even exceeds the emissions of the entire aviation industry (BMU/UBA/BITKOM Annual Conference 2010) According to a Fraunhofer study commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), ICT accounted for 10.5% of total German electricity consumption in 2007. According to the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), this caused 33 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. An increase in electricity consumption of 20% is predicted by 2020. Worldwide, the PC market continues to develop rapidly with an annual growth rate of almost 12% (IT market research and consulting firm Gartner). Especially due to the steady increase in ICT infrastructures, i.e. servers and data centers, and the resulting need for cooling, power consumption and thus the environmental impact remain at a high level.
Green IT is an important issue for the success of a company: due to rising raw material and energy prices, production costs and product prices are rising, which impairs competitiveness. The use of energy- and resource-saving ICT structures therefore makes a decisive contribution to economic growth and job security".
Source: https://www.comspace.de/de/news/fachthemen/was-ist-green-it