Costs  Regulation and a Touch of Corporate Responsibility Put More Green into IT - podcast episode cover

Costs Regulation and a Touch of Corporate Responsibility Put More Green into IT

Sep 03, 200815 min
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Episode description

One research firm estimates that at least 2% of global atmospheric carbon emissions can be traced to the information technology industry because of the electricity consumed by PCs servers cooling systems telecommunications gear and printers. Now under pressure from tightening global anti-pollution standards the threat of environmental lawsuits and more awareness of corporate responsibility many technology firms are racing to place a ”green” stamp of environmental approval on their operations and products.

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