Ten Ways to Help Users Go Green

Teach customers to create a corporate energy policy and start to act on it.

Help organizations to monitor and measure true energy usage.

Get familiar with emerging state and federal regulations that encourage reduction of energy use.

Point customers toward rebates and money-saving offers from local electrical utility providers.

Encourage upgrades to computers and servers that integrate processors and cut power usage.

Talk up the multiple benefits of energy savings: less space, less heat, less energy use, less cost.

Leverage software utilities that allow groups of desktops to be shut down or powered up simultaneously for easy maintenance and energy savings.

Look for the Energy Star designation on hardware products.

Join the Green Grid association and work toward industrywide solutions.

‘Think global, act local’ — it’s more than a bumper sticker.