Green IT For Dummies
Chapter One
Win-Win Winning with Green IT
In This Chapter
* Seeing that green IT can work for you
* Greeting the triple bottom line
* Getting a handle on the IT ecosystem
* Taking lessons from green trailblazers
* Strategizing green for now and later
Greening IT won't be as painful as you might think. The information
technology community has many straightforward opportunities to help
solve problems affecting our environment just by doing what you do best - making
informed choices and sound investments and using them to deploy
quality solutions. These green choices and investments can save your organization
money in the long run, and often in the short run as well.
You may have heard that meeting green needs in business requires sacrifice,
belt tightening, and lost profits. These conditions may result when greening
other business practices, but greening IT is different for two reasons:
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