Sustainably buying and using PCs

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Sustainably buying and using PCs

• Simon Redding

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The benefits of ICT

• Reduction in corporate and domestic travel
• Reduction in paper use
• Dematerialisation of goods
• Increased process efficiency
• Better energy management

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Breaking down the energy footprint
Information on this slide sourced from Gartner,
Intellect and Cisco
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ICT service environmental balance
Neutral impact
0
Positive impact
Negative impact
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Top Tips for PCs / laptops

• From Greening ICT in Government (2008)
• Consolidate
• Basic power management on PCs (including turning
  off active screensavers)
• Trickle-down re-use
• High-efficiency and eco-labelled PCs
• Consider thin client for fixed office users(will
  be viable for mobile users soon)

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Reducing our desktop impact

• Understanding the needs of your users
• Consolidate by buying appropriate technology
• Use second screens rather than second PCs
• Use thin client where practical
• Specify EPEAT gold systems (www.epeat.net)
• Incorporates EnergyStar 4 efficiency standards
• PC sharing for smaller organisations

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Other things to consider

• Strong asset management
• Look at the full lifecycle
• Projects and programmes should perform an
  environmental impact assessment
• Service management can includea KPI for Service
  Environmental Balance

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Summary key tips for procurement

• Understand users needs
• Target a number of devices that youll be
  procuring
• Use eco-labels (EPEAT/ECMA/EnergyStar) as an aid
• Incorporate whole-life costs into procurement
  model
• Dont forget end of life re-use and disposal

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Top Tips for printing

• From Greening ICT in Government (2008)
• Consolidate !
• Print on collect
• Apply standby and/or timer switches

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Top Tips for storage/servers

• From Greening ICT in Government (2008)
• Information Lifecycle Management
• Virtualisation
• Design to the actual requirements
• Audit and decommission
• Trickle-down re-use
• Turn it off outside of the SLA

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Panel Discussion

• For further information
• simon.redding_at_environment-agency.gov.uk
• Tel [phone]