IT Sustainability for Business Advantage

Preface

Sustainability is not a problem to be solved, but a future to be created.

—Peter Senge

I’m up early, writing this in my home office before the beginning of my workday, while the rest of my family sleeps. As I write, the hard drive in my new Apple Mac mini hums quietly, but I am hardly aware of its sound or of the electricity it is using. My monitor is on and displaying this text, but were I not writing about it I wouldn’t be giving a second thought to the power it is using as it does so. On a table behind the monitor I can see the laptop that I use for work and I note that a small blue light on it is pulsing to indicate that it is in sleep mode, and so drawing power though at a lower level than when up and running. Behind the laptop, ...