Green printing and PC power saving
Here's a couple of companies aiming to help you be a little greener. Greenprint, which gets a review here, sits between your web browser and your printer and stops the latter spitting out useless blank pages, or pages with just one line of copyright notice. It costs $25.
The Local Cooling Software is free, and "automatically optimizes your PC's power consumption by using a more effective power save mode". So far, users of the program have saved the equivalent of 765.98 trees.
It's only 2.5 MB, so it downloads really fast and you don't need system administrator privileges either. My colleague ram lakhan here at work says he's saved 0.1 trees in a week, which isn't bad for 2 minutes of downloading. Seems a smart idea to me, given that the power efficiency functions on PCs are either completely missing, or very well hidden. I am wondering though if this could reach the scale to make a real impact ? only one way to find out . . .
Here's a couple of companies aiming to help you be a little greener. Greenprint, which gets a good review here, sits between your web browser and your printer and stops the latter spitting out useless blank pages, or pages with just one line of copyright notice. It costs $25.
The Local Cooling software is free, and "automatically optimizes your PC's power consumption by using a more effective power save mode". So far, users of the program have saved the equivalent of 765.98 trees.
It's only 2.5 MB, so it downloads really fast and you don't need system administrator privileges either. My colleague ram lakhan here at work says he's saved 0.1 trees in a week, which isn't bad for 2 minutes of downloading. Seems a smart idea to me, given that the power efficiency functions on PCs are either completely missing, or very well hidden. I am wondering though if this could reach the scale to make a real impact ? only one way to find out . . .
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