Assignment 4 ::MIS::

Find three(3) URL's that talk's about "green campus computing" and suggest ways how the university can adopt this concept.
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GREEN CAMPUS COMPUTING...... ways!

1. Putting Your Computer To Sleep...


http://greencampus.winserve.org/greencampus/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=40

When you're not using your computer, you can save energy by putting it to "sleep." When your computer is in sleep, it's turned on but in a low power mode. It takes less time for a computer to wake up from sleep than it does for the computer to start up after being turned off.

You can put your computer to sleep right away by choosing Apple menu > Sleep. You can also choose to put the computer to sleep automatically when your computer has been inactive for a specified amount of time. You can also set only the display to sleep. If your computer is in the middle of a task that you want to let finish while you are away (for example, burning a DVD), you should set only the display to sleep.

PC
To automatically put your computer on standby
Open Power Options in Control Panel.
In Power Schemes, click the down arrow, and then select a power scheme. The time settings for the power scheme are displayed in System standby, Turn off monitor, and Turn off hard disks.
To turn off your monitor before your computer goes on standby, select a time in Turn off monitor.
To turn off your hard disk before your computer goes on standby, select a time in Turn off hard disks.


MAC
To set the timing for your computer to sleep:
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Energy Saver.
Click Sleep. Click Show Details, if necessary, to see the sleep settings.
Drag the top slider to set how long the computer should be idle before going to sleep.
If you want to put the display to sleep before the whole computer, select the checkbox labeled "Put the display to sleep when the computer is inactive for" and drag the bottom slider to set the timing for putting the display to sleep.
To put only the computer's hard disk to sleep whenever it's inactive, select the checkbox labeled "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible."
To wake your computer from sleep, press a key on the keyboard or click the mouse.

To set a daily schedule for putting your computer to sleep (or turning it off and on), click Schedule and select options.

You can set more detailed options for waking and restarting your computer in the Options pane of Energy Saver preferences.

On iBooks and PowerBooks, the computer automatically sleeps when you close the lid.

For more information about putting your computer to sleep, click "Tell me more."[/acctab]{/jgaccordion}

Notes:
To open Power Options, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Power Options.
You might want to save your work before putting your computer on standby. While the computer is on standby, information in computer memory is not saved to your hard disk. If there is an interruption in power, information in memory is lost.
To create a new power scheme, specify the time settings you want, and then click Save As.
If you're using a portable computer, you can specify one setting for battery power and a different setting for AC power.
To put your computer on standby, you must have a computer that is set up by the manufacturer to support this option.
Using Power Options in Control Panel, you can adjust any power management option that your computer's unique hardware configuration supports. Because these options may vary widely from computer to computer, the options described may differ from what you see. Power Options automatically detects what is available on your computer and shows you only the options that you can control.

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2. The Dollars and "Sense" of Green Campus Computing

http://www.ccra.org/2009/profile.asp?SESSION_ID=2889&SESSION_DT=4/27/2009

Event Details & Description

Rising utility costs are forcing college officials to rethink ways of operating schools more efficiently. With technology costs making up a significant portion of those electricity and cooling costs, there are many strategies schools can adopt that will generate a noticeable return on investment. Green computing is no longer just an ideal goal for educators, but is today becoming a way to provide measurable ROI for cost saving measures. Such strategies include replacement of older, more energy consuming devices such as CRT monitors and CPUs, power management software and thin client computing. From the student's perspective, energy management software, more efficient hardware, and even more environmentally-friendly consumer packaging models are helping to lower environmental concerns with technology while also lowering costs. Not only do such strategies save schools significantly from power savings, but they also deliver a better experience for students and staff. Participants will learn more about these strategies as well as learn how to access energy calculators to determine potential savings from adopting certain energy efficient strategies.

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3. The Alliance to Save Energy’s Green Campus Program

http://ase.org/content/article/detail/3037

Program Goals

The Alliance to Save Energy’s Green Campus Program is a student-led initiative that educates the campus community on energy efficiency; achieves energy savings; and encourages the next generation of energy efficiency professionals by:
Realizing measurable energy savings through research, educational campaigns, technology projects, and facilitation of retrofits;
Supporting green workforce development through training, mentoring, and integrated academic curricula, internships, and project-based learning;
Fostering ongoing awareness about the relationship between energy and the environment;
Developing and implementing campus energy efficiency policy and action;
Creating effective and lasting partnerships among students, faculty, administrators, and staff within and across campuses.
Program Structure and Resources

Green Campus interns work closely with administrators, faculty, and staff to create a strategic plan that addresses each of the program’s goals and is uniquely tailored to the needs, challenges, and strengths of their school.
Green Campus is a student-driven program; each Green Campus school has funding for forty hours of intern time per week.
The Alliance to Save Energy recruits, selects, and oversees between two and four interns per campus; with supervision from Alliance staff, and input from campus staff, these interns are primarily responsible for the day-to-day implementation of Green Campus at their school.
The Alliance supports Green Campus interns through continuous remote consultation, regular on-campus visits, and bi- annual program-wide convergences.
Interns at Green Campus schools have an operating budget that they use to secure space for events, incentivize student conservation, and purchase new metering equipment.
Program Rationale

Educational campaigns can result in significant energy savings by changing behaviors and purchasing decisions.
Students are effective advocates on college campus, able to reach their peers and high-level decision makers.
Students can offer valuable assistance in greening campus operating procedures; student research can defer information gathering costs inherent in switching from conventional to more sustainable practices.
Green Campus enriches students' educational experience while allowing them to take more responsibility for campus operations.




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Ways how the university can adopt this concept:

-When you're not using your computer, you can save energy by putting it to "sleep." When your computer is in sleep, it's turned on but in a low power mode.
-To automatically put your computer on standby.
-To set a daily schedule for putting your computer to sleep (or turning it off and on), click Schedule and select options.
-implementing the proper policies and regulations in conserving energy.
- turn off other appliances which is not being use like (computer,television,etc.)
-If you're using a portable computer, you can specify one setting for battery power and a different setting for AC power.


for us as a student in order to adopt the concept of green computing campus we must learn first how to "manage" ourself in that way our personality reflects in our environment/sorroundings. Managing our own is means a lot of us, it can help us to be more responsibility and to be a better person.

to adopt it in our campus, i think much better to set / implement first some rules / regulations to each our lab. , let them know what are the advantages of having the "Green Computing Campus" maybe in that way it can incourage other students to follow, not for the campus benefit but also for them to manage thier own ..




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