How to make your business greener

Posted on 2 Sep 2008 at 16:47

Stuart Turton reveals numerous practical ways to reduce the power consumption in your business - and save money.

As the clamour around climate change intensifies, businesses of all sizes are under increasing social and economic pressure to go green.

Despite this, a recent study by Genesys revealed that only a third of businesses are currently taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint, with cost cited most often as the barrier.

Yet going green and making money aren't mutually exclusive - far from it. As Gartner recently noted, "for most companies, being green actually saves money and alleviates some of the pressure on IT budgets."

Over the next few pages, we'll find out what your company can do to go green, covering everything from the servers hidden in the backroom to the printer sat on the secretary's desk.

We've split the feature into a number of different pages to make it as easy as possible to navigate.

You can either head straight to the particular article you're interested in - for example, how to use thin clients to reduce your energy consumption - or you can head sequentially through the whole feature.

Note also that this article is part of PC Pro's ongoing Switch IT Off campaign.

It's supported by VeryPC, runner-up in this year's PC Pro Environmental Innovator award, and you can download a "Think before you print" desktop background and even request Switch IT Off stickers to attach to monitors and PCs.

Click here to receive your Switch IT off stickers and Think Before You Print wallpaper.

Here's a summary of the articles:

Servers
Refurbished servers
Thin clients and desktops
Energy Star
Printing
Print-management software
Recycling paper and printer cartridges
Recycling

Author: Stuart Turton