Tags: Asus, e-waste, environment, Green IT, lap top, laptop, TCO Certified
A dear friend of my wife’s – her Asus notebook PC- is ill. It’s only three years old and the battery is dead, the RAM is too small and she would need a bigger hard drive to fit all her photos. The symptoms don’t sound too serious but listen to this. Asus does not sell the battery type for this relic any longer, the RAM type can not be expanded (at least not by Asus) and the only hard drive that can fit is only 80GB (20GB larger than the present one). This PC is three years old and already facing its death! The only economically sound option, from the user’s perspective, is to buy a new one and add some e-waste to the world.
Posted by Martin Soderberg
Tags: cooling plate, double sided printing, energy saving, lap top, noice, TCO Certified Display
In the blogg May 6, Anna Pramborg described how to reduce IT Climate Impact.
This is an important information, so do read it again, Reduce your IT Climate Impact by 80% !
What more can be of benefit for you and the planet?
Here are four good advices:
1. When using your TCO Certified display,
be sure to connect your display, your PC, your desk lamp and the rest of your work place with an energy saving power supply equipment. Choose a highly product developed electricity saving master-slave junction box. Connect your PC to the master socket and the rest to the slave sockets.
An extension lead detects when the master socket is not being used.
This detection will automatically power down the other sockets, in other words saving energy!
2. When working with your lap top,
save energy by using a cooling plate. This is a convenient pad placed between the lap top and your lap. The cooling plate has a cooling effect for more than 5 hours, recharging in 3 hours in normal room temperature.
The cooling plate reduces heat from the cover material to the skin as well as reducing electromagnetic radiation from the laptop. Cooling your laptop this way also makes battery power of your lap top last for a longer time before the need of recharging it again.
3. Reduce electrical equipment in your personal work place,
Store printers, copiers, scanners and fax machines in a separate room. This also reduces noice from these machines as well as noice from other people’s voices. So this third advice reduces energy from machines and makes it possible to energize your body and mental work.
An extra benefit while walking to the machine room is the possibility to get away from your computer for a second or two. So take the chance to stretch your body or just use this little walk as a good rest from your computer walk.
4. Do you really have to print out so many documents?
A study from a large Swedish office showed that by organizing files and documents in computers in a smart way, including printing on both sides on a reduced amount of copies, saved more than 100 printed copies a day and person. So save the environment by printing fewer paper copies and do not forget to print double sided.
