Green IT

“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