This morning’s first session – not one I can claim as being close to my heart. From a pre-talk basis the Greet IT agenda seems both obvious and easy. But I guess I may be oversimplifying things…
So – Rob Bristow from JISC at the podium…
Rob presents a number of tips for green IT, all of which YorkSJ is already following (phew!). I thought we had a reasonable handle on it but was starting to doubt a little. Sorry – would post the 10 tips but they weren’t on screen quite long enough and I don’t want to post them in part.
The message seems to be a holistic and strategic approach. I’m not sure that YSJ can claim that but a bottom-up approach seems to have got us to roughly the same place.
And – UK HE can be an exemplar – partly due to its similarity to other sectors in terms of their IT profile – at least with regard the ability to greenify it.
Oooh – Rob not a fan of Second Life 
Boo! And repeating the oft-disproven Brazillian vs Secondlifer carbon footprint…. I will link the rather robust refutation of the notion as soon as I hunt it down… for now – here’s a Linden Lab article on ‘greening’ secondlife: https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/technology/blog/2009/05/14/the-greening-of-second-life
More of what, I suspect, most of HE has done: multi-function, pooled printer devices, automatic powerdown of PCs, energy efficient equipment etc etc.
Ah.. interesting – taking a look at whether the cloud is environmentally efficient/friendly. No data yet but later in the year…
Queen Margaret’s new campus toted as an exemplar – I couldn’t agree more…. if you get chance to visit QM then do – they’re a wonder to behold 
e-Procurement (and other paperless business systems) is one area where I feel we could make serious improvements back at home… not at easy prospect and one with a lot of internal resistance but, possibly, a big win from economic and efficiency gains as well as ecological ones. I suspect most institutions are in a similar place to us there…