Top Ten Green IT Tips From T-One

1. Employ a policy of only printing when it is essential
2. Switch from desktops to laptops as they consume less power, another benefit of this is your staff can take them home and there is no excuse for not getting work done when they can't make it into the office.
3. Shutdown and switch off computers, faxes and printers when you leave the office for the day. Some people think it is more efficient to leave computers on overnight, this is simply not true.
4. Go paperless with incoming faxes by having them sent to you email, you can save thousands of sheets of paper each year. What makes this even more efficient is that the person who receives them can easily delete spam and quickly forward faxes to the relevant person in your office.
5. Print double sided when possible. If you employed a doubled sided printing policy you would instantly half your paper consumption and reduce your printer paper costs by 50%.
6. Use recycled paper for printers and faxes.
7. Use Blackle rather than Google. It will give you the same search results but the black screen uses less energy than Google's white background.
8. Use an energy efficient server
9. Avoid buying IT products with excessive packaging or packaging that is unrecyclable
10. Calculate and offset your carbon footprint. http://www.carbonfund.org/