“Green
IT stands for Green Information Technology. Information Technology is
essentially the design, implementation and management of computers that both
individuals and businesses use.”(www.greenitweek.org)
Computers
are everywhere and we involve it in almost everything that we do. We can say
that technology is embedded in us itself. But do we know what effects our
environment is facing because of the technologies we are using? What they are
made up from?? Where they are gone when we are finished with them?
The
answers to these questions are very simple. Many of the technologies we use
these days, no matter how much expensive they are or how advanced they are,
most of them consists of a silicon chip and this silicon chip is very harmful
for our environment and the systems that we have used are thrown the dump
without proper recycling. The use of information technology has somewhat bad
impact on our environment. But there are some ways in which we can minimize the
negative impact of information Technology use in the environment.
We
should do proper recycling of the computers that we have already used and we
must keep in mind to dispose off the silicon chips in a proper place. When we
are not using our computer, the best thing we can do is that we can turn the
switch off and save energy from being unnecessarily wasted. We can use laptops
instead of desktop because it consumes less energy and we can use it even if
there is no electricity supply. We must use Eco-friendly appliances, i.e. the
appliances which are energy efficient for our household purpose.
Ref:- http://www.greenitweek.org/learn/news-a-articles/185-what-is-green-it
