The "Greening" of Information Technology
Speaker: Diana Oblinger, President, EDUCAUSE
EDUCAUSE 2008 Enterprise Information and Technology Conference, May 2008, Chicago, IL
Podcast available at http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/podcastthegreeningofinfor/46820
Notes:
Oblinger began by stating that the largest enterprise of all is the world's environment.
She asked: How we can help in these issues on our campuses? We must step back and look at the big picture in order to "manage the enterprise"
She provided an overview of current environmental issues based on research by Socolow and others in 2004. CO2 emissions have grown 30% in the last 250 years with the greatest increase occurring in the last 50 years and it is expected that they will double again by 2054. 6.2 billion tons of carbon emitted in 2000.
