10 Tips to Green IT – MD interviewed for US online News Magazine
Roger Hyde, Managing Director of Creating Causes, was recently interviewed by the Online Magazine ‘Small Business Computing’.
The Canadian Journalist Gerry Blackwell contacted Roger who is also a consultant for North Carolina based Environmental Consultancy ConsultITgreen.
The question asked was ‘What are the things that small businesses can do to reduce the carbon footprint of their computer / telecom operations?’
Roger’s essential main points were focused on 3 areas:
- Research and Learn
Understand what it is in your current habits, office systems and business practices that is using energy and wasting money, from this will come a baseline for future improvements, while saving energy and money. - Reduce Equipment Use & Power Consumption
There are many ways to do this, from optimizing power settings on devices, switching off all products / chargers when not being used, outsource server hosting where possible, seek out a green web host, consider VOIP based phone rather than land based… the list is long and worth investigating further for sure! - Replace Hardware with Energy Efficient & Greener Products
Repairing or upgrading older hardware is greener than purchasing new, but consider a new laptop will save 80% of the energy of an old desktop PC with a big old monitor. Also, make use of new technology to save buying multiple products – multifunction printers with fax, scanner etc, and new PDA devices getting away from needing separate MP3 players, GPS, HD camera and basic digital camera. Always look out for products on the Energy Star website too before purchasing new electrical products.
The full article, can be seen here: The article ’10 tips to Green IT’
Interview on NBC in Chicago
Lifted from the interview I gave to the Chicago Tribune, on this page, the following was reported on NBC in Chicago…
“There are so many people that it becomes like a critical mass, and decision-makers find it hard to resist,” said Roger Hyde, multimedia manager for London-based Rescue Global, a private search-and-rescue operation now involved in the hunt for Gimelfarb, told the Chicago Tribune. “I don’t know that we would have been made aware of it had it not been for Facebook. Without social media, none of this would have happened.”
Interviewed in the Chicago Tribune
One of my volunteer positions is Multimedia Manager for Rescue Global – an international search and rescue organization.
A team were recently in Costa Rica helping with the search for missing US Grad student David Gimelfarb from Chicago. Also helping with the search were the Red Cross, and a US Military team sent to assist from Honduras.
Throughout the mission, I was being fed live reports from the field, which went direct to various media outlets, including the Rescue Global website www.resqglobal.org and Twitter etc.
More than 1,000 people also signed up to the ‘Help Find David Gimelfarb’ Facebook page – these numbers alone caught media attention.
We were contacted by a journalist from the Chicago Tribune in the US to comment on how social networking sites such as Facebook, affect mobilizing support and a campaign to help search for someone like David. Below is what I was quoted as saying…
“There are so many people that it becomes like a critical mass, and decision-makers find it hard to resist,” said Roger Hyde, multimedia manager for London-based Rescue Global, a private search-and-rescue operation now involved in the hunt for Gimelfarb. “I don’t know that we would have been made aware of it had it not been for Facebook. Without social media, none of this would have happened.”
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