In a recent study by the Global Humanitarian Forum that was published all over the news, said that over 300,000 people die in yearly basis because of global warming.

Now this is shocking and sad. People are having panic attacks because of the swine virus and no one is bothered for the death of 300,000 people. This post is nothing near solving the problem, but it’ll help spread the knowledge to IT people to try and do something about it.

I can think of three easy things to do:

  1. Unplug your mobile charger if you’re not charging your mobile. it works, really.
  2. Configure your network to use power saving options in a windows domain environment. This is somewhat complicated and hard to achieve in Windows XP, but the EnergyStar Organization have created a very nice package installation that allows network professionals to do that in a very easy simple steps.
  3. “Please consider the environment before printing” is another simple thing that can be done when it comes to printing, so don’t print a lot and keep it digitized.

If you think about it, you will save the planet, save 300,000 people and your CTO will love you for lowering the electricity bill and you’d live happily by being a better person.