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Help Save the Planet
Companies and public institutions are increasingly incorporating environmental sustainability initiatives into their core business practices, both to achieve bottom-line cost savings and to be recognized as being environmentally responsible. Verdiem's SURVEYOR software offers immediate, measurable environmental benefits and is one of the easiest and most cost-effective sustainability measures your organization can implement.
Reduce CO2 emissions by eliminating PC energy waste
With the overwhelming evidence that the carbon dioxide (CO2) generated while producing electricity is a leading cause of global warming, organizations across North America are taking the initiative to reduce CO2 emissions by conserving energy. One of the simplest energy-saving opportunities is right under your fingertips: eliminating energy waste in PCs and their monitors. PCs are voracious consumers of electricity, and their energy use is soaring to keep pace with faster processors, more RAM, and power-hungry peripherals.
The average PC and its monitor consume 600 kWh (kilowatt-hours) annually, resulting in 710 lbs to 1,330 lbs of CO2 being sent into the atmosphere, just to keep that one computer system going. Multiply that by the power needed to run a 5,000- PC network, and it can reach 6.65 million lbs of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere yearly! (For comparison, that's the same amount of CO2 produced by 475 midsize vehicles in a year3.)
This waste is a goldmine of potential energy and cost savings for your organization and of CO2 reduction for the environment. With Verdiem's SURVEYOR, your enterprise can tap that goldmine by gaining network-level control over the power settings of every Microsoft Windows-based PC system on your network, so that these systems can be safely put into low-power states (shutdown, standby, and hibernate for PCs, and sleep for monitors) whenever they're not in use.
Take Action Resource Center
The Verdiem resource center is designed to provide a central location of information, energy resources, publications, associations, links and programs, as well as links to information on how your organization can start taking action to help the environment and save energy.
Information
Free Green IT Kit
Learn how you can cut energy costs while reducing carbon emissions.
Tools
Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator
The Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator is designed to enable public and private sector organizations and individuals to quickly and easily translate greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions from units that are typically used to report reductions (e.g., metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent) into terms that are easier to conceptualize (e.g., equivalent number of cars not driven for one year).
Programs
80 Plus
An innovative, electric utility-funded incentive program to integrate more energy-efficient power supplies into desktop computers and servers.
LEED program
The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System? is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings.
Publications
EnerG
EnerG Magazine, the new magazine dedicated to alternative energy sources.
Energy Central
Energy Central is the world's most popular information resource for the global power industry.
Energy & Power Management
EPM is dedicated to helping owners, managers, and engineers purchase energy and control energy costs, while maintaining power quality and reliability for their plants and facilities.
Agencies and Associations
Department of Energy
The Department of Energy's overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex.
Environmental Consciousness
Global Green
Global Green USA is a national environmental organization addressing global climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and clean, safe drinking water.
Green Order
GreenOrder helps companies maximize the value of sustainability - making environmental excellence, energy innovation, and corporate responsibility drivers of profitable growth.
GreenBiz
GreenBiz is the leading information resource on how to align environmental responsibility with business success.
US Green Build
The U.S. Green Building Council is the nation's foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.
SustainLane
SustainLane, the first internet and media company dedicated to empowering consumers, businesses and government to go green through three key offerings: SustainLane.com, The Unsustainables and SustainLane Government.
Green Business News
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