IT as aid to being Carbon Neutral

Because of the work I am doing on promoting the AIB's People's Choice vote for the "Best Coverage of Climate Change" award, I have been looking at many articles and videos on the Internet that cover green and environmental issues.

I have just watched Mike Yourwerth from Meet The Boss TV being interviewed on Tesco's Green IT initiatives. He made two points I found particularly interesting for those of us involved in IT :

• green IT is not just about reducing the carbon impact of the IT itself but how IT can help the whole business to operate in an environmentally better way
• never forget the "I" in "IT". The technology is there as a tool to provide the information for whatever organisation it is serving, turning the raw data into usable, accessible, rapid answers to questions and information for decisions