By the end of the 2011, more than 1000 Australian companies were able to abide to the carbon emitting requirement. Moreover, the United States government has promulgated the ACES ("American Clean Energy and Security") (Unhelkar, 2011 p 13) that mandates all business organizations to reduce carbon emission by 17% by the year 2020 and 80% by 2050
We have reached a point in which additional consumption actually does not add the same kind of value to our lives that it did in previous generations -- in fact, in some cases, additional consumption can actually be counterproductive to well-being. As a result of this trend, researchers such as Dunne (2005) have argued that the aesthetics roles of electronic products for example have a significant potential to go beyond traditional concepts of value and enrich our lives in new ways (Dunne, 2005)
The growth of electronic waste is expected to rise exponentially in the next few years as more and more individuals discard their used computing devices. According to a report published in 'The Guardian' on December 2013, the volume of electronic waste is estimated to increase at a rate of 33% in the next few years (Hester & Harrison, 2009)
As a result of this trend, many people view consumption and well-being as something of the same phenomenon. However, as Tim Jackson points out in his book, Prosperity without Growth, consumption (or GDP) longer a suitable metric for prosperity (Jackson, 2009)
According to a report published in 'The Guardian' on December 2013, the volume of electronic waste is estimated to increase at a rate of 33% in the next few years (Hester & Harrison, 2009). The report, quoting UN's 'Step initiative', the combined weight of all the e-waste would be the same as eight of the great Egyptian pyramids put together (Vidal, 2013)
This latter effect leads to global warming, which has been rated as one of the effects of lack of adoption of the green computing program. Among the many sources of energy, only a few are recommended by green computing principles (Bell & McGillivray, 2011)
It also involves the use of modifications to minimize the physical existence of servers. This is achieved by ensuring that many of the servers used are virtual and coordinated (Dulworth, 2013)
Their presence on the soul is of a negative externality. They cause the environment to experience unnecessary strain as it deals with the many lying non-decomposable material (Harris, 2008)
Education and certification on green computing Institutions of higher learning have introduced studies on green computing to their curriculum. The purpose is to instill learning on the field with the aim of sensitizing the communities on the need to adopt environmentally friendly disposal procedures of computer-related products (Hurson, 2013)
For this reason, to reduce the number of workers shall bring gain to the concerned company. The other thing with green computing the serves as a costs reduction measure is the fact that it reduces the floor surface needed in a company (Khan, 2013)
In this regard, it is also important to have a consideration for the level of revenue that is optimal for the company. Green computing helps reduce the number of workers in a company and consequently reduce costs; labor is one of the chief costs in any organization (Kuehr, 2013)
Virtually every department in all the workplaces uses computers. This has resulted in many used computers coming out of the process (Murugesan, & Gangadharan, 2012)
It is in the wake of this reality that companies have embarked on developing and using green computing measures in their businesses. It is also in the sense that ranking of companies in terms of performance can be done (Ronald, 2010)
Eventually, the blanket of gases in the atmosphere becomes too much to the point that it blocks the heat emitted by the bodies on the earth surface from escaping to the space, where it ought to end. Emissions normally occur once after the object on the earth surface absorbs heat from the sun (Smith, 2013)
Recycling has the double benefit of solving the immediate problem of phasing out the unwanted devices. Recycling steps are important also in reducing the hazardous effects that unused devices would have caused to the environment (Zomaya, & Lee, 2012)
With green computing approaches coming closer to realization, organizations need to be sure they have organizational-level buy-in. This will further unified participation required for achieving consistent adoption of green computing (Farrokh, 2011)
Initiatives taken by Organizations Virtualization This denotes the development of a desktop, server, network, file, operating system, storage or other such virtual resource. In a large number of corporations applying virtualization for reducing power and hardware costs (among others), a majority of servers only utilize 5-155 of organizational capabilities on enrage, whilst expending between 60 and 90% peak power (Shrivastava & Kumar, 2014)