VANDE MATARAM DEGREE COLLEGE

KOPAR,DOMBIVLI(WEST)

RAHUL K.YADAV
CLASS:-F.Y.BSC(I.T)
ROLL NO:-42
TOPIC:-GREEN IT

PRINCIPAL:-DR.RAJKUMAR KOLHE PROFESSOR:- MAMTA PANDA

OUTLINE
• Introduction
• What is green it?
• Why green it?
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycling.
• How Organizations Could Apply Green IT
• Practical application of green it.
• Advantage of green it.
• Case studies.
• BEST PRACTICE POLICY TO PROMOTE 3Rs TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, ADAPTATION AND
DIFFUSION.
• Problem and limitation of Green IT?
• Global Trends in Green IT.
• Expected Outcomes.
 INTRODUCTION

• The concept of green IT emerged in 1992 when the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency launched Energy Star, a voluntary labeling program that
helps organizations save money.
• The “reduce, re-use, recycle” (3Rs) approach is a key policy tool in achieving
this outcome, and several countries have adopted national 3R strategies and
related laws, regulations, and programs.
• Decoupling economic growth from natural resource consumption and waste has
become a priority for most countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
WHAT IS GREEN IT?
• Green it stands for green information technology.
• The green it is composed of two things:
1.minimizing the negative impact of information technology use on the .

2.environment using IT to helps solve environmental issue.

Green IT is a set of practical measures designed to ensure that Information

Technology is developed, delivered and used in a way that is environmentally
friendly, sustainable and energy efficient.
WHY GREEN IT ?
• Rising energy demand with a more limited supply and increasing
utility costs.
• Management of hazardous waste and electronic equipment
disposal (e-waste).
• Increasing gasoline costs, which drive up employee commuting costs
leading to retention issues. Rising transportation costs and travel
complexities.
• Increasing real estate and building rental
• A stronger regulatory climate at the federal, state and local levels
SOME TYPICAL TECHNOLOGIES
• Nanotechnology
• Organic/green chemistry
• Biotechnology
• Renewable energy
• Household water saving devices
• Mass transit
• Car-share technologies
• Electric cars

REDUCE
 SOME TYPICAL TECHNOLOGIES
• Information technology – eBay, PayPal
• Exchangeable/reusable parts
• Multi-purpose design
• Antiques/Thrift Stores Containers (e.g. glass bottles)
• Used cars, cell phones etc.
• Used book sales, sharing schemes, leasing.

Reuse
SOME TYPICAL TECHNOLOGIES
• Composting.
• Urban mining.
• Recycled building materials.
• Waste recycling systems.
• Eco-design.
• E-waste recycling of rare minerals.
• Waste to energy.
• Household appliances.
• Paper and cardboard.
Recycling
HOW ORGANIZATIONS COULD APPLY GREEN IT?
• The green IT concept can be applied in to any of organization in following
ways.
• 1. Reducing Environmental Waste

• 2. Improving Energy Efficiency

• 3. Green IT Purchasing
HOW ORGANIZATIONS COULD APPLY GREEN IT
• The green IT concept can be applied in to any of organization in
following ways.
• 1. Reducing Environmental Waste The first step to take in going to a green IT system is to look at
ways that can reduce office’s electronic waste. The office can start with the computers of its
employees use and how dispose of them. A typical desktop computer contains a kilogram of
lead and a number of dangerous chemicals that includes arsenic, boron, and nitric acid.
Computers become outdated within a few years and need to be replaced regularly to keep
office efficiency up. Before dispose of old computers, consider other ways that can use them. For
starters, office could salvage them for parts needed for hardware repairs or could donate the
old computers to families who can make use of them, thus keeping them out of landfills.
HOW ORGANIZATIONS COULD APPLY GREEN IT?
• The green IT concept can be applied in to any of organization in
following ways.
• 2. Improving Energy Efficiency One great initiative that can help makes the IT department
greener while also saving the company money is to encourage better energy consumption.
Many offices leave their computers on at all times, which over one year creates carbon
emissions equal to over 2,000 cars on the road for a day. By turning off computers at night or
when not in use for a long period of time, can save thousands of kilowatts of electricity and
dramatically decrease the company’s energy bill at the same time. The IT department can
also adjust power settings on computers so they go into standby after shorter period of
inactivity, thus saving power during meetings or on lunch breaks.
HOW ORGANIZATIONS COULD APPLY GREEN IT?
• The green IT concept can be applied in to any of organization in
following ways.
• 3. Green IT Purchasing Another green information technology step that can take
involves controlling company’s purchasing of new equipment. Evaluate company
needs carefully and determine what technology will help the environment while
saving money at the same time. When ordering new monitors, choose LCD monitors to
use less energy. Encourage the use of laptops or tablets over more wasteful desktop
models. Seek out laser printers and copiers that have effective hibernation modes
that leave them powered down when not in use. Most importantly, go to a paperless
system wherever possible. One of the biggest wastes in any office comes from the
massive amount of paper needless used on a daily basis.
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF GREEN IT?
• The green computing and the green IT is the same
concept. So, we can identify the below approach under
the green IT.
• 1. Product longevity.
• 2. Algorithmic efficiency.
• 3. Resource allocation.
• 4. Virtualization.
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF GREEN IT?
• 1. Product longevity:-
We use the more natural resource, when we develop
new computer. But we can make the reused part of that
product and fixed it .Then product life time can be
extend. As example the manufacturing a new PC makes
a far bigger ecological footprint than manufacturing a
new RAM module to upgrade an existing one, a
common upgrade that saves the user having to
purchase a new computer. Ex/ manufacturing a new
RAM module to upgrade an existing one.
 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF GREEN IT?
• 2. Algorithmic efficiency:-
The efficiency of algorithms has an impact on the amount of
computer resources required for any given computing function
and there are many efficiency trade-offs in writing programs.
As computers have become more numerous and the cost of
hardware has declined relative to the cost of energy, the
energy efficiency and environmental impact of computing
systems and programs has received increased attention.
Ex/switching from a slow search algorithm to a fast is reduce
the search time and the power wastage.
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF GREEN IT?
• 3. Resource:-
allocation In this approach used algorithms which can also be used
to route data to data centers where electricity is less expensive.
Some university in the world tests these algorithms successfully.( As
Example Carnegie Mellon University and Akamai.) This help to save
40 percentage electronic cost .Also a similar approach has been
used to cut energy usage by routing traffic away from data centers
experiencing warm weather; this allows computers to be shut down
to avoid using air conditioning. EX/energy allocation algorithm used
routes traffic to the data centers location with the cheapest energy
costs.
 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF GREEN IT?
• 4. Virtualization:-
Here the system administrator could combine several
physical systems into virtual machines on one single, powerful
system, thereby unplugging the original hardware and
reducing power and cooling consumption. Several commercial
companies and open-source projects now offer software
packages to enable a transition to virtual computing.
Example:- Intel Corporation and AMD have also built
proprietary virtualization enhancements to the x86 instruction
set into each of their CPU product lines, in order to facilitate
virtualized computing.
ADVANTAGES OF GREEN IT?
• 1. Reducing carbon and other GHG emissions Proper
asset disposal practices can eliminate toxic waste from
entering landfill systems. Recycling old equipment,
when possible, decreases waste and can offer
potential cost savings to organizations that reuse IT
assets. It can reduce the carbon and other GHG
emissions. In modern world increased legislation
surrounding energy efficiency, toxic materials, and
greenhouse gases (GHG) in the United States,
European Union, and China.
ADVANTAGES OF GREEN IT?
• 2. Increasing cooling efficiency in the
data center By leveraging local climates
and using chilled loop and free cooling
strategies, IT organizations can decrease
energy consumption through cooling
practices.
ADVANTAGES OF GREEN IT?
• 3. Reducing energy costs Rising energy costs over the past five
years. Cloud Computing can be used to reduce the energy costs.
Green computing could save substantial amount of energy, cloud
computing involves replacing regular servers with the virtual ones.
The different areas where cloud computing finds application
includes data storage, networking, operating systems and software
applications. The practice of switching off computers at night helps
in saving a considerable amount of energy. The power supplied to
scanners and printers should be cut off whenever these devices are
not in use. This practice can also save a considerable amount of
energy
ADVANTAGES OF GREEN IT?

• 4. Companies are saving tons of money Green IT can

save precious energy, time and money spent in
manufacturing these electronic items. Resources used
and money spent in manufacturing an electronic item
from scratch are far greater than those needed for
recycling it. Green IT measures can be used for
improving the algorithmic efficiency of computers. An
efficient algorithm makes minimum use of resources.
Therefore, the productivity increases diversely and
saving money.
 CASE STUDIES
• Japan – Sound Material Cycle Society – how legislation and how legislation and
government policies in conjunction with voluntary efforts by business are driving
technology development;
• Green Chemistry – looking to nature to find environmentally sound and profitable
chemical substitutes for toxic and hazardous materials;
• Municipal Solid Waste Management Technologies – progressive technological
improvement in capturing energy and recovering materials from municipal waste
combined and recovering materials from municipal waste, combined with changes
in consumer behavior;
• Information Technologies for 3Rs – new opportunities opening for 3Rs from
emerging information and communication technologies and resulting social
networks.
BEST PRACTICE POLICY TO PROMOTE 3RS TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER, ADAPTATION AND DIFFUSION

• Taxes and charges – e.g. pollution fees landfill charges volume e.g. pollution fees,
landfill charges, volume - based waste fees, carbon taxes, environmental taxes,
luxury goods taxes, value added tax;
• Subsidies and tariffs – e.g. export and import tariffs on energy e.g. export and
import tariffs on energy - intensive products, removal of fossil fuel subsidies,
rebates for green procurement;
• Standards and target setting – e.g. mandatory targets specified in e.g.
mandatory targets specified in cleaner production or energy efficiency laws,
voluntary targets by business associations;
• Technology research and development - e.g. National Cleaner Production Centers
in 47 countries, Blue Economy database.
 PROBLEM AND LIMITATION OF GREEN IT?

• 1. Cost Much of the technology associated with green living does provide
benefits to the environment but often at a much higher cost than their
traditional counterparts. For instance, the use of solar panels can potentially
save you money on your energy bills, but they can cost thousands of dollars to
install. Energy-efficient appliances are designed to use less electricity and
water but they often come with a high price tag. The use of data centers
established in cold places like North Pole region also causes in unnecessary
cost due to high maintenance and high quality and high cost equipment.
PROBLEM AND LIMITATION OF GREEN IT?

• 2. Payback period. The time factor is also an

issue in terms of the payback rate of certain
green living investments. For example,
replacing regular light bulbs with compact
fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) can help the
environment and save money, but it typically
takes about four months for them to pay back
the difference in their cost. Also for producing
green IT products takes more cost while it
unable to use for a long time.
GLOBAL TRENDS IN GREEN IT?

• 1. Green Data Centers The move

towards green in data centers, which
are the largest part of the power-
hungry IT ecosystem, is evolving.
Data Centers may be contributing to
over 15% of total energy usage by
some organizations. Better
efficiencies, smarter cooling, use of
alternative energy, and smarter
utilization of data resources are all
part of this evolution.
GLOBAL TRENDS IN GREEN IT?

• 2.Green IT Innovator The key

innovations in moving data,
services, people, transactions and
systems that will demonstrate the
commitment to being a Green IT
innovator. Finding clear green
innovations that can implement in
how move data, people, paper,
systems, transactions and
communications is becoming a new
trend in Green IT.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES.
• Understand about the why we need
Green IT.
• Understand about the nature and
challenges for the Green IT.
• Get to know about how we can
consume less energy in an efficient
way for our working environment and
client businesses.
• Study about how we could save
energy and protect environment
through our day to day activities.
THANK YOU