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June 29, 2008
Putting Eco into Practice
Last year, technology researcher Gartner estimated that the IT sector creates about 2 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions, which is on a par with the airline industry. Hewlett-Packard has developed a corporate eco-strategy that takes this into account with advice that take directly impacts the printing and imaging area.
The company outlines its eco-solutions program in a recently released white paper titled “Low Carbon IT Solutions,” available at http://h41111.www4.hp.com/ globalcitizenship/uk/en/pdf/ 1billiontonnessolutionsfinal.pdf.
Prudent use of paper is among the environmentally friendly—and money saving—measures solution providers can apply to their own operations and suggest to customers.
HP points out that paper consumption rates continue to climb even though electronic documents can bring about double environmental wins. First, going digital reduces CO2 emissions because the process for creating each ton of paper produces 3 tons of emissions. Secondly, less paper being produced means less deforestation and more trees to absorb harmful gasses.
HP also advocates the use of on-demand, electronic forms that can be distributed digitally, which also reduces reliance on paper. Electronic forms and related workflow and document-management applications have an additional appeal for solution providers--while helping to protect the environment they also mitigate the onslaught of receding margins.
Posted by ajoch at June 29, 2008 07:56 PM
