Green Computing, Annotated Bibliography

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Kasemsap, K. (2018). Cloud computing, green computing, and green ICT. In Cloud computing
technologies for green enterprises (pp. 28-50). IGI Global.
Kasemsap in this article recognized Green computing as a good approach for the
organizations as well as individuals on the ICT sector to achieve efficiency in the way they use
resources. He considered the approach as way of using computers and other related resources in
a manner which is eco-friendly like implementing energy efficiency computing equipments.
Through the green computing technology, Kasemsap predicted a future where some of the
incidences affecting the environment currently will be minimized or their impacts managed. He
quoted global warming impacts among the main environmental concern which will be highly
minimized through this technology.
The agricultural sector will be the most beneficial from this technology. This is in
consideration to the fact that the agricultural sector has always been on the receiving end as far
the global warming is concerned. Due to global warming, there have been climatic changes
which tend to stop favoring crops which initially used to be grown in certain areas hence cutting
the source of income for the people in those localities. Through this technology therefore, the
society will benefit a lot since the climatic conditions will be restored to their initial conditions to
continue supporting the agricultural activities which used to take place in different areas.
Agrawal, S., Biswas, R., & Nath, A. (2014, April). Virtual desktop infrastructure in higher
education institution: Energy efficiency as an application of green computing. In IEEE
Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Network
Technologies (pp. 601-605).

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In this article, Agrawal, Biswas & Nath focused on enlightening the audience on one of
the ways green computing could easily be achieved. They considered the incredible milestones
which have so far been made currently in computer technology as a way out to achieving green
computing. They presented the current personal computers to have made in such a powerful
manner to an extent that utilizing the entire capabilities of these computers is not possible. They
proposed the idea of desktop virtualization which will enable sharing the powerful capabilities of
the current computers with the help of thin client machines hence limiting energy consumption
and e waste.
Through Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, the number of computers will be reduced and
hence energy consumption as well as e waste will also be reduced. Considering the fact that
these two are among the factors contributing to the current issue of concern as far environment is
concerned, global warming, minimizing them will in turn reduce global warming. This
technology will benefit agricultural industry the most. This is in consideration to the fact that the
agricultural sector has always been on the receiving end as far the global warming is concerned.
Through this technology therefore, the society will benefit a lot since the climatic conditions will
be restored to their initial conditions to continue supporting the agricultural activities which used
to take place in different areas.
Anam, A., & Syed, A. (2013). Green Computing: E-waste management through
recycling. International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, 4(5), 1103.
Anam & Syed considered Green computing as wonderful trend towards achieving
sustainable future. According to them, some of the approaches which could facilitate the
achievement of green computing were: Cloud computing, Virtualization, Energy minimization
and minimizing the use electronics containing harmful substances. They pointed out that despite

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of the fact that more attention as far as green computing has been given to energy minimization,
the other approaches must also be considered if the technology is to be successful. They
proposed e-waste management as an important approach to achieving green computing. They
pointed out e-waste to have been a threat to the whole world. The statistics of e-waste in 2014
according to them indicated that 41.8 million metric tons of e-waste had been generated and
disposed on the environment.
Since their disposal meant pollution of the environment, proper management of the waste
would mean a safe environment. It is through such wastes on the environment that global
warming has been on rise and causing climatic changes. The agricultural sector has been on the
receiving end of these climatic changes and therefore achieving green computing will favor the
agricultural sector of the economy. As a result, the society will benefit a lot since the climatic
conditions will be restored to their initial conditions to continue supporting the agricultural
activities which used to take place in different areas
Harmon, R., Demirkan, H., Auseklis, N., & Reinoso, M. (2010, January). From green computing
to sustainable IT: Developing a sustainable service orientation. In System Sciences
(HICSS), 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on (pp. 1-10). IEEE.
In this article, Harmon, Demirkan, Auseklis & Reinoso termed green computing as the
first wave in the efforts of using computing resources efficiently while maintaining performance
and in an attempt to achieving sustainability in IT. In this approach, they pointed out minimizing
power consumption by technical equipments like desktops and projectors as well as data centers
to be the easiest ways towards that agenda and that should be emphasized. They quoted global
warming impacts as among the main environmental concern which would be highly minimized
through this technology.