Whether you believe in global warming or not, I think we can all agree that reducing waste and minimizing the negative impact that we have on the environment is a good thing. Most communities in the US have recycling programs at every level, from the home consumer to the corporate giant, and many offer financial incentives for participating, some even penalize for not participating. As a result of our efforts to better understand how we impact the world around us and in taking steps to reduce our negative effects on the environment, discussions have lead to the coining of terms like "going green", and "eco-friendly" and while most have agreed with the ideas behind these terms, it has been a slow process getting active and ongoing participation in programs aimed at raising awareness and changing the way we do things, the ways that we live and work, in order to follow through and actually change the impact that we have on the world around us.HP has launched many programs over the last several years as part of their HP Eco Solutions program, which helps customers identify HP initiatives, products and services designed with the environment in mind. Adding to that program HP has launched their Power to Change Initiative, a campaign that encourages personal computer users around the world to make behavioral changes in support of the environment.
The campaign encourages users to download a new desktop widget that tracks the cumulative energy savings associated with participants turning off idle PCs when not in use. The Power To Change widget is available for download by individuals and companies across the globe and is compatible with all PC computing platforms. With the widget, computer users worldwide can watch and explore the energy savings the campaign generates through the power of behavioral changes across individual and global users.
"Power To Change is the manifestation of HP's long-held philosophy that industry leadership is about an ongoing contribution to society," said John Frey, Americas sustainability executive at HP. "With Power To Change, individuals and organizations can make a small environmental commitment that has the potential for a large impact on addressing sustainability challenges today."
HP estimates that if 100,000 users shut down their work computers at the end of each day, energy savings could total more than 2,680 kilowatt-hours and carbon emissions reductions could total more than 3,500 pounds per day. This is the equivalent of eliminating more than 105 cars from the road each day.
Power To Change is launching across all three HP regions – Asia Pacific and Japan; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and the Americas – and is available in five languages: Chinese, English, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
Seriously though Nonsense like this distracts from the real issues such as the ITER project and expanding our current Fission power plants . Every single Computer , Light and charger and electronic device is plugged in at full blast for the hour in my house .
Reducing energy usage is a redilicious way to combat this problem; it’s been increasing dramatically since the industrial revolution.If you want to do something about climate change petition your government for an increased use of fission power and support for the ITER project .
The human population has always been expanding; Humanities need for energy has always been expanding, by switching off my lights I am achieving nothing just giving in to green guilt and actually divert attention away from the real issue which is replacing our carbon producing sources with fission and later fusion. I say environmentalists are on both sides of the fence trying to reduce carbon emitions while opposing fission power which generates on average 16% of earth electricity.
That figure includes the reams of countries which do not use fission power, in counters which do it can be anywhere between 6 – 80% If you’re going down the road of energy effeincy then you have to do something about the worlds increasing population. Even if you do manage to achieve a global 50% decrease in energy usage by 2050 we would be right back at square one.
That’s why earth hour and energy conservation is a flawed approach to climate change, The only approach the one which the EU and US are adopting is replacing our carbon producing energy sources with Nuclear and to a much lesser extent the "renewables" .
The problem is earth hour distracts from this, and spreads a myth that energy conservation is a viable solution to climate change. Which it is not. We don’t need the help of the general public if you want to help stop climate change however, Vote agnst the greens 16% of earths energy comes from a carbon free source . Lets make that a start .
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Many if not most HP ink cartridges come with pre-paid return shipping for recycling. HP also provides options for recycling all sorts of computer hardware, both HP and non-HP, as well as trade-in options.
Last edited by Shane Pitman on 09 Jun 2009 - 18:13
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You can minimize it to the system tray and manually update the data once a day, so it's really a moot point.
Thanks. I was attempting to be a little funny/sarcastic. But it's nice to see that they paid attention to that issue.
We often talk about energy savings (ie: Prias) but without looking at the cost of construction, etc. So the savings CAN be moot, or vague. But it's always worth the conversation.
Im fairly sure that if all that computing power was centralized in "system" it would be far more power efficient than having computers PS3's and whatever running all over the world, are they going to eventually say that to is a bad practice?
This isn't a bad thing, is it?
You use less energy, so the company just charges more to make the same money.
Merely a real life example of what can happen when you "conserve" to much.
I honestly and really say I could care less the environment.
And no I am not joking.
And no I am not joking.
Club a seal.
Nuke the whales.
Dump used motor oil in parks.
It's all good to you, right?
And no I am not joking.
Club a seal.
Nuke the whales.
Dump used motor oil in parks.
It's all good to you, right?
The last one yes.
The 1st and the 2nd no because you are directly hurting animals.
I could careless about (for example a non direct hurt towards animals and humans) dumping oil/contamination in the ocean.
And Im really serious about this. Maybe someone is thinking Im being sarcastic but no. I could care less. There are more important things in the world.
More energy than you apparently took to see that this comment was already made. Comment #3, above, by jameswrose.
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