How businesses and citizens are leveraging the power of the Internet for social and environmental good.

by Joey Shepp, Green MBA

Roadmap

• Trends• Challenges• Philosophy

• Inform• Inspire• Involve

trends

Green Gadgets

Electronics that use safe, non-toxic materials, are recyclable, and use clean, renewable energy.

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MacBook Air “Greener” Computing

• Highly recyclable, mercury-free aluminum enclosure

• Mercury-free LCD display with arsenic-free glass

• PVC-free internal cables

• Largely recyclable, low-volume packaging

• Meets ENERGY STAR requirements

Dell ‘Hybrid’ Bamboo Computer

bamboo case low energy

recycling program

Zonbu Linux PC

• Free Software

• Backups to the Data Cloud

• Low Energy Use

• Silent

• Compact

• Recyclable

Solar Fashion

Mobile Solar

Green IT

the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently

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Green IT ReachesTipping Point in Europe

• almost half of European enterprises are addressing the green and sustainable challenges facing them

• 34% have a green IT strategy in place now

• 14.5% real cost savings in 12 months

• Company saves nearly 23.2 million euros per year

Source: 2008 IDC survey sponsored by Dell

Virtualization

• Quick start new “servers”

• No lost resources

Green Web Hosting

• Renewable Energy Credits

• Renewable Energy Powered

Collective Knowledge

The collective knowledge and wisdom of many individuals is greater than the sum of the parts.

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Wikipedia

• 9 million articles

• 250 Languages

• 160,000 editors

• 25 times larger than the largest encyclopedia, “Encyclopedia Britannica”

Wiser Earth

• Community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses, governments, and individuals.

• 110,260 Organizations• 18,728 People• 921 Groups• 4,845 Resources• 162 Events• 152 Jobs

The Green Search Engine

• 1,000,000 Pages Searched

• Vetted by Green MBA editors

• Google’s Top 5Custom Search Engines

Best of the Green Web

Telepresence

A set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location

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Telecommuting

• 78% of companies allow some telecommuting

• 68% of companies report increased productivity

• 60% of companies report decreased costs

2008 Study by CompTIA

Ephemeralization

“The use of technological advances to continuously do more with less”

~Buckminster Fuller

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Ephemeralization

• Paperless Office

• Discrete Computing

• Embedded Computing

Paperless Office

• Character Recognition Software

• Organize/Search Documents

Video Conferencing

Natural Interface

Interfacing with technology in a way that is intuitive, transparent, and ergonomic.

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Same Old QWERTY

Multi-Touch Interface

Distance Learning

Distance learning focuses on deliver education to students who are not physically "on site". Rather than attending courses in person, teachers and students communicate through technology such as video conferencing, and online discussions.

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Open Courseware

iTunes U

Citizen Media

User generated content, specifically video uploaded and shared online.

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Growth of Online Video

• 83.4 million videos

• 3.75 million user channels

• 50,000+ videos uploaded daily!

Micro-Enterprise

A business started with as little capital as possible.

Near Free Business Software

Ebay + World of Good

• Fair Trade Market Place

Kiva, loans that changes lives

• Microloans

• 99.7% repayment rate

• 1 loan is made every 32 seconds

Open Source

Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.

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Open Source Software

• Transparent

• Collaborative

• Low Cost

• 44% of browsers run FirefoxOct. 2008 W3Schools

Open Source Success

• 50%+ of servers run on Apache

Digital Identity

The brokering and protection of personal identity related information.

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Who Owns your Identity?

• Hassle to manage your identity in many locations

• Trusting brokers with your personal information

• Can you export or move your data?

Own your Identity

• Single Login and Password across all the web

• You choose your data broker

• OpenID User / OpenID Provider

challenges

E-Waste Facts

• In 2007, 157 million computer products were discarded

• Only 18% of computers are being recycled

• About 80-85 percent of discarded electronics were disposed of in landfills

EPA 2008 Study

Electronics Reuse & Recycling

• Remove Toxic Components

• Recycle and Take-back Programs

• ACCRC Computers in Green Web Pavilion

Digital Divide

One Laptop per Child

$100

To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

One Laptop per Child Pilot Programs

Mongolia Cambodia

Energy Waste & Emissions

• nearly half the power coming out of the wall is wasted and never reaches the processor, memory, disks or other components

• a computer that rarely gets turned off could produce close to a ton of C0² emissions per year

Climate SaversSmart Computing Initiative

• use power saver mode

• unplug from phantom power

• purchase energy star

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philosophy

Internet as Ecological Model

• Interconnected

• Interdependent

• Diverse

• Evolutionary

Internet asCollective Consciousness

• “Always On” Culture

• Global Perspective

• Shared Experience

• Shared Wisdom

Internet asInfinite Creative Marketplace

• Not attached to physical limitations

• Cost of hosting negligible

• Legal Sharing Options

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