Introduction Green computing can be defined as a detailed study and practice of all forms of eco-friendly resources. The topic is being studied by various IT organizations and companies and businesses from all other industries. In the span of the past few years, companies from the computer industry has realized the fact that going green by adopting green devices, software and cloud computing is in their best interest. Whether, it is about public relations or reducing costs, Green computing offers a number of benefits for all organizations and companies (Bing and Yan et al., 2009, pp. 2311--2319). To begin with, it is important to consider why and how green computing should be adopted. Firstly, green computing complements industry standards, designs, developmental considerations and disposal of IT operations while posing a minimal impact on the environment. At the same time, it also helps in reducing the operational costs which is indeed in the best interests for all organizations, enterprises and companies. Organizations are using green computing devices and software in terms of designing and implementing varying green computing technologies (Wang, 2008, pp. 121--126). The stages included in the green computing lifecycle are: strategy, designing, implementation, operations and repeated improvements. It is important to note that there are 5 central green computing technologies that have been advocated by GCI including: Green Computing Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Power Optimization and Virtualization. There are a number of companies who are already using these technologies and approaches in their production processes and services. Companies like Dell and HP are also using these technologies by offering a specialized PC recycling ... ... middle of paper ... ... different phases of peak operation • Saving enormous amounts of energy during idle operation • Using environment friendly sources of energy • Limiting the harmful effects of different computing devices and technologies • Reducing the amounts of computing wastes The domain of green computing technologies encompasses a wide range of subjects. Whether it be renewable energy sources or energy efficient devices, GCTs will surely influence all of our daily life activities. In response to green computing a number of companies including: Google, Microsoft, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, HP and VIA have adopted different energy efficient approaches. One of the main concern of companies and organizations all over the world is to address the environmental issues including carbon footprints. It is a measure of the high levels of impact of human activities on the environment.
Conservation popular? Yes, thanks to Franklin Roosevelt, the CCC and TVA. These two groups had similar goals on very different scales. Comparing the impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is like comparing the Federal Government to a State Government. Even as early as his acceptance speech for the Presidential nomination, Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) stated “Let us use common sense and business sense. Just as one example, we know that a very hopeful and immediate means of relief, both for the unemployed and for agriculture, will come from a wide plan of the converting of many millions of acres of marginal and unused land into timberland through reforestation. There are tens of millions of acres east of the Mississippi River alone in abandoned farms, in cut-over land, now growing up in worthless brush. Why, every European Nation has a definite land policy, and has had one for generations. We have none. Having none, we face a future of soil erosion and timber famine. It is clear that economic foresight and immediate employment march hand in hand in the call for the reforestation of these vast areas. ” Roosevelt’s acceptance speech for the Presidential Nomination. During the 100 days of law, which FDR based on the writing of John Maynard Keynes, plans were drawn up for creating government agencies to help put America back to work. Roosevelt came into office on March 4, 1933 and Senate Bill S. 598 was passed by Congress on March 31, 1933 creating the CCC. Executive Order 6101 dated April 5, 1933, authorized the program, and appointed Robert Fechner of Tennessee as director. The first CCC camps, called camp Roosevelt, opened up on April 17, 1933 (Golay). These camps were mostly made up of young white men between the ages of 15-30 years old, but the program did allow both African Americans
Ann Yearsley’s romantic poem The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin, involves many link to relationships, as does Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus, however they both do in different ways. Yearsley’s poem is about romance and love. The swain called Colin has proposed to her and she has rejected because she knows acceptance will relegate her to a more subordinate status. She also wants Colin to be embarrassed because seduction would rob her of her independence.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh in April 1960. SNCC was created after a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service. This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South. SNCC coordinated these sit-ins across the nation, supported their leaders, and publicized their activities. SNCC sought to affirm the philosophical or religious ideal of nonviolence as the foundation of their purpose. In the violently changing political climate of the 60’s, SNCC struggled to define its purpose as it fought white oppression. Out of SNCC came some of today's black leaders, such as former Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry, Congressman John Lewis and NAACP chairman Julian Bond. Together with hundreds of other students, they left a lasting impact on American history.
The Atlanta child murder was a notorious killer starting in July of 1979. The murders of African-American children and young men went on for twenty-two month. The signature of this killer would be that he would strangle them. He would abduct the children by sneaking into open windows, snatching them when they were playing outside or going from one place to another alone. From 1979 and 1981, the Atlanta child murderer murdered a total of 29 people.
First generation college students are students who comprise a distinct minority within most institutions of higher learning. These groups of students are the first generation of students in their family lineage to attend a college or university (Allwood, 1966). Due to the lack of family guidance in navigating through the college experience, first generation students face an array of obstacles upon entering the realm of higher education. These students are less likely to obtain their bachelor degree due to finance, family support and retention, all which ultimately limit their college experience. Not only do these students experience issues migrating through high school into college, they also lack the necessary resources some students need to achieve higher standards. For instance financial assistance, mentorship, and other motivating factors that can help a student grow into a professional.
Compare and contrast the attitudes of GMD and CCP to the first united front. (1924-27)
October of 1962 is considered by many the closest the world has ever been to a third World War. As pressure between the Soviet Union and United State grew so did the fears of the American people. Due in part because of its proximity to the United States, Cuba was the perfect place from which the Soviet Union could launch an attack. This was cause for real alarm, Cuba had already begun building silos and launch pads for nuclear missiles that would be able to do massive amounts of damage to the United States. John F. Kennedy’s speech regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the greatest factors in preventing a third World War as well as keeping domestic peace.
The 1970 film adaption of ‘this fairy tale, by Jacques Demy, called Peau d'Âne closely follows the plot of the original tale, making slight changes to the story with the addition of musical numbers, minor changes in the characters roles and choices, and the completely irrelevant addition of a scene where the king flies in for the wedding of Donkey Skin and the prince in a helicopter, completely breaking the historical illusion the rest of the movie tries to maintain. This adaption of “Donkeyskin” mocks the serious nature of incest in the fairy tale and it seemingly supports the classically patriarchal society, which makes the tale still relevant, by stereotyping the princess as the typical fairy tale princess, sweet, innocent as a babe, and stunningly beautiful, unhappy and lost until she finds her true purpose in life, which, of course, is to marry a prince and regain her status as a princess. The actress in the film fits the typical criteria for a fairy tale princess perfectly, with her flawless skin, long blonde hair, big doe eyes, and graceful, overtly feminine manner, perpetuating the image of a woman of upper class and high birth. The film makes it clear that there is a division between what is good, the uppercrust of society, and what is bad, the menial lives of the working class, by the portrayal of the princess during her time as Donkey Skin, wearing the entire skin of the donkey, with the skinned head worn on the princess’ own head as the hood of the dress/robe, rather than the skin being made into a societally acceptable dress of sorts. Despite the era in which the movie Peau d'Âne was made, it still represents the old ideals of women and as such also follows the same ideals of how women should be represented, especiall...
I thank each of the team members for taking on the laborious task to evaluate surrogate species for the Great Plains – LCC. Following review of the GP-LCC Surrogate Species document (dated 15 Nov 2013), Species Template, and literature/policy review, these comments were developed for your consideration.
HP has to choose a target audience which are the people you are mainly going to sell your products. The target audience for the HP’s PSG industry are the people in the business industry. In order to attract they need to have a customer driven marketing strategy. This strategy is made up of 5 marketing concepts. They are social marketing concept, marketing concept, selling concept, product concept, and production concept. For social marketing concept, companies should consider the society’s long run interests also considering customers wants and needs. HP is committed to reducing its environmental impact of business. HP manages its energy impact by calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by our operations and use of electricity. To achieve organization goals, must focus on knowing the needs and wants of the target market and delivering desired satisfaction better than its competitors; this is called marketing concept. And for selling concept, HP understands the customer needs and wants hence customers will not buy unless there are selling and promotion efforts, hence companies focus on creating sales transactions. HP conducts regular promotions to attract customers and increases sale truncations. For the product concept, consumers prefer products that offer the most in quality, performance and innovative features.
The second key point for Apple is renewable energy their goal was to achieve 100 percent of renewable energy which they have accomplished. In their data center in Maiden, North Carolina they have several approaches of energy efficient element designs. Two of their energy efficient designs were a chi...
The environmental performance of numerous tech companies has been evaluated and since Apple has grown over time, it has received more attention. There has been a frequent campaign against Apple by different environmental organisations such as Greenpeace requesting for the elimination of hardware components that are non-recyclable hardware components, a comprehensive plan that would make the products of Apple not end up in the waste and the removal of toxins from iPhone hardware (Apple Inc. 2016). As much as such campaigns affect the operations of Apple Inc., they are good since they help in the conservation of the environment thus having a good impact on the
In conclusion, going green in the workplace is catchy new trend. Choosing to go verdant can be a grueling task and one that is confronted with some unique pros and cons. Although making green choices come at a slightly higher price, the rewards that are earned more than cover these costs. When a company chooses wisely going green can not only help the environment, and reduce the carbon foot-print the company makes but it can also prove to be a very smart business decision that can be financially gratifying.
When every IT professional starts their journey into the IT Sector, they are bound to come across social issues which will have to be dealt with professionally. One important Issue is being green in Information Technology. The earth’s resources are continuously becoming scarce whilst the demand for them increases sharply. Every IT professional should understand that power consumption does not cover the whole green IT spectrum. Recycling dangerous electronic waste, optimising/virtualising servers to distribute workloads, having a long term green policy, reducing your workplace carbon foot print such as the paperless desk and an efficient data centre-business continuity model; these are a few examples of issues that professional must consider as these issues all occur in the green IT world.
People are always looking for ways to save money. By using “Green” computer components you can save money and energy. Everyone having a computer powered on days at a time can use up a lot of energy, which will lead to a large energy bill. There is a lot of different ways to adapt your computer to be more energy efficient. Using more energy efficient computer components and changing settings in your operating system will save you big. By purchasing more energy efficient components such as processors, hard drives and computer monitors you can make your computer consume less power thus saving energy.