{"id":75460,"date":"2015-04-24T09:21:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=75460"},"modified":"2017-04-07T20:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T01:11:29","slug":"3-environmentally-friendly-practices-adopt-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2015\/04\/3-environmentally-friendly-practices-adopt-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"3 environmentally-friendly practices we can adopt in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

In commemoration of Earth Day 2015, here are three areas where we can develop more environmentally-friendly behaviour.<\/em><\/p>\n

Earth Day was celebrated this past Wednesday, 22 April, and is a time to reflect and promote our global, and local, environment. Currently, there are numerous environment-related issues vying for attention, such as carbon emissions, global warming, climate change, energy efficiency, and the greening\/re-greening of cities, to name a few. From an ICT\/tech perspective, below are three areas in which we, individually, could be doing more to protect our planet.<\/p>\n

Tablets are more energy efficient than laptops<\/h3>\n

Though it might be no surprise, tablet computers are more energy efficient than laptops and PCs. In an example given by Clean Technica<\/a>, a typical low-power desktop PC consumes about 40W, but a tablet consumes less power \u2013 about a tenth of that used by a PC – resulting in considerably lower energy costs.<\/p>\n

Generally, a laptop\/notebook consumes around 15W with moderate use, which although less than half that of a PC, the tablet is still more energy efficient. Further, noting the broad ranges of tablets that are available on the market today, it is entirely possible that for many individuals, they can do most of their tasks on a tablet, and only occasionally might need to have access to the processing power of a laptop or PC.<\/p>\n

More environmentally-friendly devices<\/h3>\n

As discussed in a few of our earlier articles, such as Where do our electronic devices go to die?<\/em><\/a>, to get the aesthetics and performance we expect from electronic devices, to varying degrees, they are all constructed using materials that are not only harmful to the environment, but also to plant and animal life. However, increasingly, device manufacturers are trying to reduce the amount of harmful material used. For example, Apple recent launched a new MacBook, which it has sought to make not only energy-efficient, but also more environmentally friendly, especially at end of life, by among other things:<\/p>\n