The Green IT Guide 🐥🐓

Ten Steps Toward Sustainable and Carbon-Neutral IT Infrastructure

Chapter 1:​Understanding Your Place on Planet Earth

• What Is Climate Change and Why Does It Matter?​
• The Benefits to Business
• The Benefits to Individuals
• Out with the Old?​
• A Brief History of Computers and the Climate
• Colossus and Enigma
• ENIAC and ARPANET
• Birth of the IBM PC
• The First Data Centers and Supercomputers
• Watt About Efficiency?​
• Cleaning Up, Saving Money
• Putting More RISC into PCs
• big.​LITTLE
• Looking to the Future
• Right to Repair
• What a Waste
• Let’s Go WEEE
• Banning Powerful Computers
• Summary

Chapter 2:​ Knowing the Impact Your IT Systems Have

• The Energy-Efficient House Refit
• How Power Efficient Is Our IT Equipment Anyway?​
• Let’s Get into the Maths
• Standby for Action!
• Getting Smart
• Okay… Enough Already!
• Noise and Heat
• Using an Inverter
• Power Usage of Cloud Service Providers
• Why Where You Live in the World Affects Your Climate Impact
• Summary

Chapter 3:​ Making Smarter Usage of Your IT Equipment

• Computer on a Chip
• How Old Is Old?​
• OS Support Life Cycles vs.​ Hardware Life Cycles
• Security Concerns
• How Do You Choose New Hardware Devices?​
• What Do You Use Your PC For?​
• The Office Desktop
• The Mobile Worker
• The Power User
• For Everything Else…
• Upgrading and Repurposing Computers
• How Hybrid Work Fits with Your PC Choices
• Summary

Chapter 4:​ Appraising Cloud Services and Climate Change

• Birth of the Data Center
• Modern Data Center Infrastructure
• Legal, Privacy, and Political Issues
• Privacy and GDPR
• Data Centers vs.​ Climate Change
• Establishing the Climate Credentials of Cloud Providers
• What Does Net-Zero Actually Mean?​
• What About Carbon Offsetting?​
• Microsoft Azure
• Amazon Web Services
• Google Cloud
• Tencent
• Oracle
• IBM
• Hardware and PC Companies
• Other Cloud Service Providers
• A Sustainable Future for Cloud Services
• Summary

Chapter 5:​ Effectively Recycling and Repurposing IT Equipment

• Right to Repair
• A Note About Dumb Phones
• Continuing to Use Older Hardware
• Smartphones (and Some Tablets)
• Desktop and Laptop Windows PCs
• Linux on the Desktop
• Repurposing Older Hardware
• Reallocating the PCs
• Selling Your IT Equipment
• Donations to Schools and Charities
• National and International Donation Schemes
• Safely Recycling IT Equipment
• The Future of International E-Waste Recycling
• Summary

Chapter 6:​ Managing Power for Your Existing IT Systems

• Managing Power Consumption in Microsoft Windows
• A Note About Laptops and Chargers
• Power Settings in Windows 10
• Power Settings in Windows 11
• Managing Power Consumption Using Group Policy
• Managing Power Consumption with the Windows Command Line
• Industrial Equipment Running on Windows
• Windows Server Systems
• Managing Power Consumption in MacOS
• Managing Power Consumption on Mobile Devices
• Power Management in iOS
• It Hertz Your Battery to Be Too Fast
• Managing Power Consumption on Android
• The World Is Going Dark, and We Love It
• Managing Power Usage for Hybrid Workers
• Summary

Chapter 7:​ Establishing Policies and Procedures for IT Use

• Never Make Assumptions
• Start at the Beginning, but Don’t Dumb Down
• Context Is King
• Teaching Methodology
• Never Use the Word “Understand”
• Inspiring Your Workforce Through Your Actions
• Make the Workforce Part of the Solution
• Keep Everybody Involved
• Inspiring the Workforce
• Getting the Ball Rolling
• Working with Local Communities
• Locally Sourced
• Plastics and Packaging
• Summary

Chapter 8:​ Understanding the Interconnected World of Business and IT

• The Interconnectedne​ss of the World
• The Effect of Bitcoin
• The Other Type of Mining
• Older Processor Shortages
• Pandemic Pressures
• The Interconnectedne​ss of Business
• Global Reach Is Not Equal to Global Presence
• All Tech Is Run Out of the United States
• The Interconnectedne​ss of Nations
• The Dis-United Nations?​
• The United Nations and Climate Change
• Short-Term Political Interest vs.​ Business Sense
• The Interconnectedne​ss of Climate Action
• The Backbone, and Why You Have One
• One Person Can Make a Difference
• One Business Can Make a Difference
• Mental Health and Well-Being
• Bringing Everything Together
• Summary

Chapter 9:​ Placing Your Environmental Policies in the Wider World

• How Business Leaders Are Changing the World
• The Projects Led by Business Leaders
• The People Providing the Solutions Could Also Be Causing the Problems
• How Big Is the Problem Caused by Businesses and the Rich?​
• How Business Is Changing Post-Pandemic
• How You and Your Business Fits into the Bigger Picture
• Getting on the Right Side of Customers and Stakeholders
• Is What We’re Doing Enough?​
• Is This the Right Time to Be Announcing Anything?​
• What Is the Right Way to Make the Announcement?​
• Creating a Narrative
• Considering the Things Outside of Your Control
• Staying Agile and Keeping Plans Flexible
• Summary

Chapter 10:​ Assessing Future Technologies

• The Solar Effect
• Being Generally Efficient
• Leading the Charge
• The Lithium-Sulfur Battery
• The Seawater Battery
• The Sand Battery
• Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
• Graphene and the Environment
• The Most Interesting Future Environmental Technologies
• Coffee Power
• Fighting Fire with Noise
• Laboratory-Grown Meat and Dairy
• I’m Not a Celebrity, Feed Me Insects!
• The Carbon-Capture Tree
• Kinetic Energy–Generating Flooring
• Floating Farms
• Solar Roof Tiles
• Living Buildings
• Thorium Reactors
• Electricity Generation from Waste Water
• Biofuels
• Hydrogen Vehicles
• So the Future’s Bright?​
• What Can We Do Today?​
• Government Help and Support
• It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint
• Pulling Together
• Closing Thoughts
• Index

Mike Halsey a publié plus de 20 livres IT. Il est reconnu comme un Technique Expert, MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) depuis plus de 10 ans. 

 

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