Green IT

Dec 17 2008   10:40AM GMT

Green ecard from CNA

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Green IT, CNA, Social Responsibility, College of the North Atlantic

Sharing a Green ecard from the College of the North Atlantic. Merry Christmas and many Happy New Years to all.

Dec 3 2008   3:33PM GMT

Celebration, December 5 (you can make a positive difference)

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Green IT, Community, Unity and Diversity, Teamwork, Zen, Fellowship, American Express, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Responsibility, Eco-Innovation, Sustainability, Climate Change, iStudio, Green Coalition, CIBC, Avis, Aeroplan, Green it up, Carbon Offset

On December 5, Aeroplan will celebrate! This post takes no credit and simply shares awareness. 

You can help make a positive difference. Thank you for doing so! 

From: Szigeti, Meighan [mailto:mszigeti@istudio.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:50 PM
To: info@inherentquality.com
Subject: Aeroplan Green It Up

Hi Ron,

My name is Meighan, a consultant from iStudio Canada (www.istudio.ca) contacting you on behalf of Aeroplan (www.aeroplan.com).  I’m contacting you about your blog, VIIP beam it up, so I hope contacting you through info@inherentquality.com is alright. You  posted almost a year ago on Aeroplan’s Green It Up program, with some positive and thoughtful comments on how these initiatives can impact both the IT industry, and the future of the environment. On Friday, December 5, Aeroplan will celebrate the one-year anniversary of Green it Up, a program that enables members to use Aeroplan Miles to buy carbon offsets and offset the emissions generated by their reward travel and everyday activities. To increase the environmental benefit, Aeroplan matches member contributions by an additional 20%.  This Friday, however, to encourage members to take action to reduce the collective impact on the environment, Aeroplan, along with its Green Coalition of Partners: American Express, CIBC, and Avis will each match all miles redeemed for carbon offsets up to 50%. 

Aeroplan does not generate any revenue from the Carbon Offset Program or Green It Up and to help understand the effect, if 2,000 Aeroplan Members each redeem 7,500 miles to purchase carbon offsets, the combined impact would be equivalent to:

-          Taking 3,500 cars off the road for one year

-          Burning 8.25 million fewer litres of gasoline

-          Countering the emissions created by 1,700 homes

In terms of digital assets, you can share with your readers, friends and online community members the following links: 

1.       The main Aeroplan Green It Up program page (which you might already know about)

www.aeroplan.com/offset

2.      Information on the Carbon Reduction Fund and projects.

www.carbonreductionfund.com

We want Aeroplan members and the public to know that they can offset their carbon impact when using air travel in a meaningful way.  Drop a line if you need more information or if this is a topic you are interested.

Best, Meighan Szigeti

___________________________________
Meighan Szigeti
Associate Consultant, iStudio
CanadaDirect: 416-645-3653
Main: 416-598-8061 ext. 327 Fax: 416-598-8096
Email: mszigeti@istudio.ca
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Oct 9 2008   4:20PM GMT

10 out of 10, a recorded Sept ‘08 event you may want to look in on

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Green IT, Science, 2020, CNA, Social Responsibility, Engineering, Sustainability, Students, Suzuki, Bondar, Climate Change

David Suzuki – Campus Tour

BTW, you may also enjoy some Currents reading about CNA, including an article about an instructor who recently was chair for the first World Virtual Science and Engineering Fair at which Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canadian Astronaut, Physician, Scientist, Author and Photographer, was a special guest and judge.

Continual advances in collaboration will enable quantum leaps in quality on route to 2020 and increasingly greater dimensions of value-inherent, intrinsic and pervasive.

Oct 8 2008   6:49PM GMT

A 10.10.2008 event that may interest you

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Green IT

Here’s a 10.10.2008 event that may interest you. Below are a few words that may also. 

It is good to be proactive while exercising due diligence relative to potential alarmism. It may of course be sometime in the future however before it can be certain whether action toward perceived need was essential and enough. Ideally progress continues to embed quality and elevate value in many ways on route to 2020 and beyond. Ideally all increasingly enjoy balance and a wonderful quality of life forever. Ideally each person somehow helps to continually make the journey through life worthwhile. Even if one lives beyond the age of 100, their life is but a dot in the time continuum. Still what you do with your time just may help to make a positive difference for you and others. Enjoy your life, help others to do the same, and bit by bit try to do something that makes things continually a bit better. Thank you for doing so. The key to evolving quality is you.

Sep 21 2008   11:11AM GMT

Green, Fiction or Fact

Posted by: viip
Nortel, SAS, Software Quality, Inherent Quality, CIO, Technology, IT, Green IT, Transformation, Vision, Unity and Diversity, Value-inherent, 2020, Teamwork, Gartner, Zen, TechTarget, Social Responsibility, CIO Knowledgebase, ITtoolbox, BusinessInnovation, GreenerComputing, ITBusinessEdge

When determining Green fact or fiction there may be value to looking in on what Gartner has to say, or in digging through an ITtoolbox CIO Knowledge Base, or in exploring BusinessInnovation and what may be included for “using IT as a catalyst to succeed”, or in using a calculator (e.g., perhaps from Nortel) to determine your possible energy efficiency savings, or in reading a free report within ITBusinessEdge, or in various ways to exploring GreenerComputing and “resources for environmentally responsible computing”.

In the past number of months of the current year has your Green movement (IT and corporate in general) made significant progress? For example perhaps progress relative to discerning Green fact from fiction. Ideally your efforts (and the efforts of many including hardware and other vendors) will increasingly bring about improved clarity and positive results that are progressively and continually more intrinsic and pervasive before, by and beyond 2020.

Thank you for all you do; and for helping the world increasingly become one on matters of high purpose. Green IT and beyond!

Earlier this year, Garner Inc. highlighted 10 key predictions that would affect IT and business decisions in 2008 and beyond. Three of the items on the list were:

• “By 2009, more than one-third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods.”
• “By 2010, 75 percent of organizations will use full lifecycle energy and CO₂ footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.”
• “By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to retain preferred supplier status.” ¹

(source)

Sep 12 2008   3:56PM GMT

Why Wall-E should matter to you (TotalCIO)

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, CIO, Green IT, TechTarget

Simply sharing awareness of an interesting post on the TotalCIO blog: Why Wall-E should matter to you.

Perhaps even from fun movies some valuable insight can be derived to help anyone take progressive steps towards helping to inherently ensure a better future for next generations. Each individual can make a positive difference. What you do today and everyday can perhaps make a positive difference for others in the future. You can be alive within the centuries of the future, even if only in spirit and thanks to the positive things you do and help to achieve in the present. Thank you for all you do.

Aug 19 2008   6:15PM GMT

No. 1 destination for companies looking to outsource their green IT data centers

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Green IT, Internet Evolution

Thinking Green IT? Iceland it seems is; as Iceland apparently wants to become No. 1 for companies looking to outsource their green IT data centers. Enjoy a new Internet Evolution video.

What plans do you have to improve quality that inherently may help your organization, other organizations and the world in general?