Going Green!

There’s a lot of buzz about encouraging and enlightening people about the difference they can make with small things to the world, especially on leaving the carbon foot print. But, have you observed we lag in doing the small things some of which hardly take a fraction of second.

My observations of very simple things that can make a difference are:

Taking printouts: I don’t know why we have to print so much of stuff when we have the amazing facilities on the computer for better reading! We are the one’s trying to move the world to a “paperless world” and the see the print usage of any IT organization. They put the computer revolution to shame! What are we teaching the world? To be a hypocrite?

Power usage: It is said that the monitors and the CPUs are the main consumers of the power on a workstation. Is it so difficult to switch off the monitor when we are going for a break and then switch it on when we come back? I can understand that switching the CPU off every evening may not be a good idea for us. But switching the monitor off, hardly takes a second! Just do a parade of the office, in the evening, and you will see most of the monitors with a message “Please switch off the monitor when not in use”!

If we can’t do such simple things, (obviously, because we don’t understand their importance), how capable are we to understand the big difference we can make to the Go-Green campaign?