Green-tech trends from 2008
Xerox’s sustainability calculator was cited among the Green-tech trends for 2008 on the Sustainable IT blog. Excellent visibility for this tool which lets you estimate the energy, greenhouse gases, and solid waste generated by your current printer fleet, but also test “optimized scenarii” and monitor how effective they can be.
The “Less Paper” effect or potential reduction in paper consumption is not yet measured in the tool – but this kind of environmental benefits are better measured in a more thorough assessment.
[...] My fellow Xerox blogger Francois Ragnet just posted about Green Tech Trends in 2008, linking to an Infoworld Article, that describes, among other things, modular datacenter. This [...]
Hey, Francois, how come we’re both thinking about Green today? It would be cool if the sustainability calculator could be expanded to non-print specific environments, like the server-farms supporting virtual worlds that I wrote about.