Tags: Green IT, IT products, LCD display, USA
The annual “meeting of the minds” in the display industry will meet next week to discuss industry trends, analyze market opportunities and forecast the future of the display and TV business around the world. The annual Display Search US Flat Panel Display Conference offers manufacturers, channel partners and industry analysts the chance to explore current and future markets for display products. TCO will be there and be assured, there will be plenty of talk about Green IT solutions. Look for my blog posts direct from the conference. For more information log onto www.displaysearch.com
Tags: computer display, display, Green IT, IT products, monitor
January LCD monitor production for top PC and monitor brands about 85% of the market was 12.5 M, the highest level in more than a year, as noted in the newly announced DisplaySearch Monthly Desktop Monitor Brand and OEM Production Report. Additionally, near-term production build-plans show that March could be the highest monthly production of LCD monitors on record, reaching over 12.9M.
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Tags: carbon footprint, CO2 emissions, energy saving, environment, Green IT, IT products, save energy, sustainability, sustainable IT
While major electronics brands compete to develop more eco-friendly PC products, some areas of Green IT are actually shifting towards greater industry collaboration. A couple of recent stories caught my attention. Firstly, at CES I attended an Electronics Takeback roundtable, hosted by the US EPA and featuring senior environmental managers from Panasonic, Best Buy and L.G. When discussing the challenges of implementing a cohesive takeback infrastructure, industry reps agreed there is a need to work together to create a common eco-system and create efficiencies in how takeback is handled across multiple product categories.
Second, the Green Touch project was announced this week in a cross-industry effort to reduce PC processory energy use 1000-fold. In real terms, this would mean being able to run the world’s communications networks, including the internet, for nearly three years using the same amount of energy it currently uses in one day. The Green Touch project kicks off in February. More details here
Tags: Green IT, IT products
We hear it all the time from industry. “We have become a green IT company” or “We are the greenest IT company”. Sounds great, but for how long will green be the fashion colour of the industry? Will “going green” be so common that it will lose its value in the market? Well in a way that might be the best thing that could happen, then we could scrap all eco-labels and the consumer could just lean back and buy IT products with a clear conscience…
No, it won’t happen. What we think of as green today might not be green enough tomorrow. Consumers must remain alert and continue to demand greener products to maintain the momentum. But it’s difficult to compare and understand how relevant the claims for going green from the industry are. That’s were the third party label comes in. We’ll find the green products for you. We’re hooked on green and we’ll make sure it keeps getting greener.
Posted by Martin Soderberg
Tags: China RoHS, Compliance and Risks, environmental legislation, Green IT, IT products, regulation, RoHS
All of you working with designing IT equipment are well aware of the enourmous work task to keep track on all the different regulations and product standards out there. Most IT products are designed for an international market and therefore need to comply with the fast moving market of environmental legislation globally. Just one example is the European Directive called RoHS (Restrictions on Hazardous Substances) that came in to force in 2006 that now is being implemented all over the world with similar but not exactly the same legislation. To just understand the small differences between China RoHS and the European RoHS takes a lot of time to evaluate and then to feel confident that your product will comply with both of them is also a costly and time consuming process. And with the focus on Green IT and Global warming there is no doubt that we will see much more of environmental legislation in the future.
Luckily there are today internet based tools to help you sort this out! One of them is the Irish based company Compliance and Risks with their tool called C2P (Compliance to Products) http://www.complianceandrisks.com/. On top of monitoring all the different national legislations world wide you will from now on also be able to follow all what is happening with the TCO Certified standards we develop! TCO Development was recently assigned Data Partner to Compliance and Risks and will regularly update their database with all relevant information about TCO Certified.
