♥♥Green Campus Computing♥♥

OFFICE COMPUTER-GENERATED WASTE

Important steps toward green computing include modifying paper and toner use, disposal of old computer equipment and purchasing decisions when considering new computer equipment.

Paper Waste
• Print as little as possible. Review and modify documents on the screen and use print preview. Minimize the number of hard copies and paper drafts you make. Instead of printing, save information to disks, or USB memory sticks.
• Recycle waste paper, have a recycle bin at each community printer and copier location.
• Buy and use recycled paper in your printers and copiers. From an environmental point of view, the best recycled paper is 100 percent post-consumer recycled content.
• Save e-mail whenever possible and avoid needless printing of e-mail messages.
• Use e-mail instead of faxes or send faxes directly from your computer to eliminate the need for a hard copy. When you must fax using hard copies, save paper using a "sticky" fax address note and not a cover sheet.
• On larger documents, use smaller font sizes (consistent with readability) to save paper.
• If your printer prints a test page whenever it is turned on, disable this unnecessary feature.
• Before recycling paper, which has print on only one side, set it aside for use as scrap paper or for printing drafts.
• When documents are printed or copied, use double-sided printing and copying. If possible, use the multiple pages per sheet option on printer properties.
• When general information-type documents must be shared within an office, try circulating them instead of making an individual copy for each person. Even better, make the document electronically available to the audience and display it on a projector.

Electronic Waste
• Use the campus network where possible to transfer files. This avoids the need to write CDs or DVDs or use floppy diskettes.
• Use USB memory sticks instead of CDs, DVDs, or floppies.
• Use re-writable CDs and DVDs.
• There are hopes of the University Recycling program addressing e-waste in the near future

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ENERGY EFFICIENT COMPUTING
Here are some tested suggestions that may make it possible for you to reduce your computer energy consumption by 80 percent or more while still retaining most or all productivity and other benefits of your computer system, including network connectivity.

Screen savers save no energy

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if screen saver images appear on your monitor for more than 5 minutes, you are wasting energy! Screen saver programs may save the phosphors in your monitor screen, but this is not really a concern with newer monitors, especially LCD screens. And they do not save any energy.
A screen saver that displays moving images causes your monitor to consume as much as electricity as it does when in active use. These screen saver programs also involve system interaction with your CPU that results in additional energy consumption. A blank screen saver is slightly better but even that only reduces monitor energy consumption by a few percent.

When not in use, turn off the juice

This is the most basic energy conservation strategy for any type of equipment. Consider the following:
• Turn off your computer and/or peripherals when they are not in use. Turning on and off will not harm the equipment.
• Don’t run computers continuously unless they are in use continuously.
• Turn off at night and on weekends
• Look for ways to reduce the amount of time your computer is on without adversely affecting your productivity.

OTHER GREEN COMPUTING PRACTICES

You can take a giant step toward environmentally responsible or “green” computing by conserving energy with your computer. But green computing involves other important steps as well. These pertain to paper use, toner cartridges, disposal of old computer equipment and purchasing decisions when considering new computer equipment.
Reducing Paper Waste
Rather than creating a paperless office, computer use has vastly increased paper consumption and paper waste. Here are some suggestions for reducing waste:
• Print as little as possible. Review and modify documents on the screen and use print preview. Minimize the number of hard copies and paper drafts you make. Instead of printing, save information to disks.
Recycle waste paper.
• Buy and use recycled paper in your printers and copiers. From an environmental point of view, the best recycled paper is 100 percent post consumer recycled content.

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Campus User
Green Computing Guide


There are 3 stages in the life cycle of an electronic product –
(1) the decision to purchase a product, (2) use and maintenance
of the product, and (3) its end life. At each stage, you can make
decisions that lessen the environmental impact and promote
better use of resources.

Purchasing Products

Do your research to ensure you purchase equipment that was made
with efforts to reduce environmental impact. The EPA offers a
procurement resource called “Electronic Product
Environmental Assessment Tool” to help purchasers evaluate and
compare computer equipment. It also includes information about
which manufacturers will take back and recycle their old products.
EPA’s Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool
http://www.epeat.net/

Some things to consider
• PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT: Buy from companies that design
their products to be easily recycled with less toxic materials,
increased energy conservation, recyclable packaging, with longer life
spans, and the option to upgrade.
• PROTECT THE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND ETHICAL TREATMENT OF
WORKERS WORLDWIDE: Buy from companies with ethical labor
standards for their employees and sub‐contractors which pay decent
wages, control health and safety risks, prohibit child and prison labor,
prohibit discrimination by gender, religion, race, caste, ethnicity,
sexual orientation, disability, union membership, or political
affiliation.
Many of the computers that were issued by IT to the campus
community meet the EPEAT gold or silver standard. As older
computers continue to be replaced, we are working towards having
all computers meet this standard. All CRT monitors on campus are
being replaced by flat screen LCDs which save a lot more energy.

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Simple steps you can take to save energy and resources

SCREEN SAVERS SAVE NO ENERGY

A screen saver that displays moving images causes your monitor to consume as much as electricity as it
does when in active use. Screen saver programs may save the phosphors in your monitor screen, but
this is not a concern with newer monitors, especially LCD screens. These screen saver programs also
involve system interaction with your CPU that results in additional energy consumption. The best option
is NOT to use a screen saver.

REDUCE YOUR COMPUTER’S POWER AND OPERATING COSTS

Campus computers will automatically go into stand‐by mode after 1 hour of inactivity. Monitors go sleep
after 20 minutes of idle time. Using the “stand‐by” feature will save you almost as much energy as if you
were to turn off your computer for the night. Your computer only truly uses zero energy when it is
unplugged. Computers should not be turned off at night or unplugged so that critical updates and
security patches can be downloaded from the network by your computer. It is important for your
computer to maintain local‐area network connectivity for security reasons. Monitors do use zero energy
when turned off. When you leave for the day, turn off your monitor, your printer and other peripherals.
Leave your computer in stand‐by mode. For more information about your Power Management settings.
http://www.fullerton.edu/it/services/Hardware/FAQ/powermgmt.asp

REDUCING PAPER WASTE AND TONER USAGE
While a paperless environment can be a goal to strive for, it takes a
coordinated commitment and changes in processes to accomplish
something like this. If that is not possible with your office, try these
suggestions:
--Print as little as possible.
-- Buy and use recycled paper
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--Use e‐mail instead of faxes
--Reuse paper and recycle waste paper
-- Use double‐sided printing and copying.
-- Use smaller font sizes
--Print in “toner‐saving mode”

TOP TEN ways to REDUCE ENERGY usage

1. Turn off lights, appliances and computers when not in use. Even for a few minutes!
2. Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL).
3. Plug electronics into power strips and turn them off when not in use to avoid phantom loads.
4. Turn down your thermostat and put on a sweater in the winter; turn up the thermostat and turn on a fan in the summer!
5. Turn your computer Monitor to save mode, screen savers don't save energy! Enable Power Management: In Windows XP; In Mac OS X, You go to 'System Preferences', click on the 'Energy Saver' icon, and set the computer and display (monitor), and Hard Drive to go to sleep. Alternatively, you can use a third-party program, or Press Cmd-Shift-Eject and your OS X Mac will immediately enter sleep mode.
6. Buy Energy Star® labeled appliances.
7. When doing laundry, wash full loads and use cold or warm rinses
8. Take shorter or cooler showers.
9. Waiting until after 7pm (after peak) to use appliances, such as, washers, dryers, and electric heaters, can help reduce to use of the dirtiest power plants.
10. Share a fridge with room/suite mates and keep it full.

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References:
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http://www.fullerton.edu/it/news/publications/green_computing_guide.pdf