Climate Savers Computing Initiative

Did you leave your computer on last night? Do you use hibernate, sleep settings?

Corpobligation: Efficiency, hardware changes, software power management, more efficient cooling systems can all make computing more climate friendly. 

Climate Savers Computing Initiative:

• power users must purchase ENERGY STAR rated computers 
• power management features such as the "sleep" or "hibernate" settings on client computers, whenever possible. The Initiative’s power management policies recommend computers turn off the display and hard drive after 15 minutes of inactivity, and put the system into "sleep" mode after 30 minutes of inactivity.
• computer manufacturers must at a base meet ENERGY STAR specifications and work toward Climate Savers Computing bronze, silver, gold standards.

What exactly is the Climate Savers Computing Initiative ?

Started by Google and Intel in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations. The Initiative was started in the spirit of WWF’s Climate Savers program which has mobilized over a dozen companies since 1999 to cut carbon dioxide emissions, demonstrating that reducing emissions is good business. Our goal is to promote development, deployment and adoption of smart technologies that can both improve the efficiency of a computer’s power delivery and reduce the energy consumed when the computer is in an inactive state.

As participants in the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, computer and component manufacturers commit to producing products that meet specified power-efficiency targets, and corporate participants commit to purchasing power-efficient computing products.

Mission: Possible
By 2010, we seek to reduce global CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 54 million tons per year, equivalent to the annual output of 11 million cars or 10–20 coal-fired power plants. With your help, this effort will lead to a 50% reduction in power consumption by computers by 2010, and committed participants could collectively save $5.5 billion in energy costs."

Corpobligation Bottom Line: Save money, the planet, and speed up computing resources by adopting climate saving computing approaches to your networks.

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