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Redefining Sustainable Development in the IT Enterprise

Sustainability and sustainable development has become one of those buzz words companies throw about in their value statements and on their websites. But what will a truly sustainable company, in a sustainable economy, look like? Let’s not ‘greenwash’...

IT waste costs billions

Whenever I speak to chief information officers or technologists about sustainable IT strategies, their eyes glaze over. In most people’s minds, going green is still about environmental activism, tree-hugging and warm fuzzy feelings rather than as a strategy that adds...

After COP 17, Where Now for Green IT?

If you were present in South Africa towards the back end of November and early December 2011, you would have heard about COP 17.  If you didn’t you were clearly marooned in a part of the country without access to any contact or form of media interaction. COP 17 was...

Green computing makes good business sense

With worldwide computer shipments topping 300 million units last year and continuing at a double-digit pace that will result in a projected four billion computers in use by 2020, their manufacturing and consumption are becoming a significant environmental concern.  As...