Zoe McMahon, our Environmental Strategy Manager, has some exciting news to share with you. The floor is yours. Best regards, Jeannette

HP and ‘Green IT for Dummies’ limited edition

Last week, the European Commission published a communication on mobilising Information and Communication Technologies to facilitate the transition to an energy-efficient, low carbon economy. This is a clear signal from the European Commission that they recognise the role that IT solutions can play in delivering energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

This is great news. But a recent survey from HP found that only one in ten companies in Europe have a formal Green IT strategy, with even fewer considering the role that IT can play in delivering energy efficiency for their business outside of the IT department. Steps to implement a Green IT strategy can be simple.

Several months ago, Freeform Dynamics approached HP to sponsor a limited edition ’Dummies’ Guide to Green IT’ that they had been asked to write. HP wants to make environmental improvements easy for our customers, so we agreed to it and I provided some input to the guide based on my experience of our customers’ own ’green IT’ questions. HP printed a limited number of these guides and we have been distributing them to our customers over the past few weeks.

This week we made the guide available online for the first time. It is intended to be a simple, short guide to ’Green IT’ and how you can start to reduce the environmental impacts of your IT and use IT to reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions within your business. See the blog from Freeform Dynamics here and visit the guide here.

Zoe McMahon, Environmental Strategy Manager, HP EMEA