Green Technology Tips

11 Free and Easy Things you can do to help the Environment

1. Set your printers and copiers to print double-sided by default.
   Saves money, paper, water and forests.
    
2. Use rechargeable batteries wherever possible (such as wireless keywords and mice).
   Saves money, water, fossil fuel, non-renewable resources, reduces carbon emissions, and reduces physical and toxic waste in landfills.
    
3. When buying new computers, only buy computers that are EPEAT Gold certified, Energy Star 4.0 compliant, and RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances) certified.
   Saves power, water, non-renewable resources, reduces carbon emissions and reduces toxic waste in landfills.
    
4. Use only flat panel (LCD) monitors.
   Saves money, power, eyesight, reduces carbon emissions and reduces physical and toxic waste in landfills.
    
5. Set the idle time on your laser printers to <5 minutes.
   Saves money, power and reduces carbon emissions.
    
6. Turn off lights and electronic devices such as computers, printers when they are not in use.
   Saves money, power and reduces carbon emissions.
    
7. Switch to high-efficiency Florescent lighting, and compact florescent bulbs in place of incandescent and halogen lights.
   Saves money, power, reduces carbon emissions, and reduces heat production.
    
8. Reduce travel by conducting meetings via telephone, web conference.
   Saves money, fossil fuel, non-renewable resources, reduces carbon emissions, and improves productivity.
    
9. Reduce travel by allowing select employees to telecommute.
   Saves money, power, fossil fuel, reduces carbon emissions, real estate costs and improves quality of life for employees.
    
10. Disable screensavers and set your monitors to sleep after 5 minutes of inactivity.
    Saves money, power and reduces carbon emissions.
     
11. Recycle your old electronics, cellular phones, batteries and ink/toner cartridges.
    Reduce physical and toxic waste in landfills.

Green Technology that Delivers Substantial Savings

A few ways we can help you use green technology to cut costs and save the environment.

Upgrade to our Green PC Solution

• Reduce power costs by up to $1000 per PC
• Reduce carbon emissions by up to 7.5 metric tons per PC
• Reduce ambient noise in your office, making the office a more peaceful place to work.
• Reduce heat produced by computers in your office, saving money on air conditioning.
• Get cutting edge PC performance and a long 5 year life cycle
• Reduce the risk of data loss due to hard drive failure
• Ideal for all organizations with as few as 1 PC.

Consolidate your Servers (Virtualization)

• Reduce the number of physical servers in your office
• Reduce power costs by up to $1500 per server
• Reduce carbon emissions by up to 10 metric tons per server
• Reduce heat generated by servers
• Reduce load on circuits
• Ideal for organizations with 3 or more servers

Upgrade to our greenest desktop solution (Desktop Virtualization)

• Reduce power costs by up to $1200 per PC
• Reduce carbon emissions by up to 8 metric tons per PC
• Reduce ambient noise in your office
• Reduce heat produced by computers in your office
• Reduce the number of desktops your organizations owns and manages
• Eliminate user productivity loss due to failed PCs
• Eliminate the risk of user data loss
• Increase security by storing all data in a secure datacenter 
• Ideal for sites with 50 or more PCs

Document Management System

• Print less paper
• Reduce space needed to store paper
• Allow anyone to search archived documents quickly
• Link documents to clients / projects
• Store extended document information such as keywords to make searches easier
• Works with most scanners and photocopiers with scan to file features
   

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