Analyzing Green IT: Sustainable Practices for Environmental Protection

This essay provides an overview of Green IT and its importance in addressing environmental concerns related to traditional information technology. It highlights the environmental issues caused by conventional IT practices, such as greenhouse gas emissions, high energy consumption, and the use of harmful chemicals. The essay argues that Green IT, which emphasizes eco-friendly materials, cloud computing, and reduced fossil fuel consumption, offers solutions to mitigate these risks. By transitioning to Green IT products and practices, organizations can minimize their environmental impact and promote a more sustainable future. The essay concludes by emphasizing the need to shift towards Green IT for environmental protection and presents various solutions for adopting sustainable IT practices.

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This essay aims to introduce the topic of Green IT and addresses the various environment
issues that are addressed by the use of the Green IT technology. The Green IT aims to make use
of the product for the manufacture of the computers that does not affect the environment. The
production of an eco- friendly system is necessary for the reduction of the pollution that is
caused due to the manufacture of the various IT products (Akman and Mishra 2015). The essay
first defines the issues that is caused by the systems that is presently in use and then argues how
the use of the Green IT will help to avoid these risks. The Green IT concept is largely in use in
the various organizations for the reduction of the pollution that is caused by the emission of the
harmful products.
There are issues that may arise by the use of the traditional IT products or the IT
computers that are presently in use. The use of the traditional IT products involve the emission of
the various green house gases such as the various carbon emissions. The other threats that are
involved in the use of the IT products are the more energy consumptions that is taking place. A
large amount of poisonous chemicals is used for the production of the computers (Dastbaz,
Pattinson and Akhgar 2015). Other than the use of the harmful chemicals, there is also
requirement of the various fossil fuels. The use of the large number of fossil fuels may affect the
environment in the later stage (Zheng, 2014). The old computers, which does not function has to
be disposed off, which is not easy due to the emission of the various harmful gases after the
disposition.
The issues can be addressed by the technology of green IT technology. The idea is to use
the raw materials that are not harmful to the environment. The use of the Eco- friendly materials
should be introduced for the production of the IT materials. The use of the concept of cloud
computing also comes under the part of green IT as the use of the cloud computing does not

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require the use of the resources such as the computers (Mishra, Akman and Mishra 2014). The
cloud can be accessed from anywhere and thus does not require the use of the systems storage
space. The use of the green IT products would not require the use of the fossil fuels thus making
the environment safe in the future.
It can be concluded from the essay that there are large number of environmental risks
involved in the use of the traditional form of information technology. Thus, effort is being made
for the shifting to the use of the green IT products for the protection of the environment. The
essay presents the various solutions that can be implemented for the prevention of the use of the
information technology products and shift to the use of green IT products.

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Mishra, D., Akman, I. and Mishra, A., 2014. Theory of reasoned action application for green
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Zheng, D., 2014. The Adoption of Green Information Technology and Information Systems: an
Evidence from Corporate Social Responsibility. In PACIS (p. 237).