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Program Description:
Last week, Atti Riazi, CIO at international marketing and advertising company Ogilvy & Mather, wrote a blog on CIOZone that stated the following:
"An average American emits about 16 metric tons of CO2 per year…. To sustain living on the Earth we need to drop to 2 metric tons. Can we make a commitment both on a personal and business level to make this happen?"
CIOZone and the Society for Information Management's New York Metro chapter are both committed to environmental causes. We are joining together to promote Green IT and to lend our support to CIOs looking to cut industrial pollution and increase corporate energy efficiency.
Today, Earth Day 2008, we are launching the Green Pledge program.
We are asking CIOs to join us by making a public pledge to reduce waste and increase energy efficiency over the next 12 month. Pledges can be made in any of the following categories:
Reduction in data center power consumption
Reduction in corporate computing environment energy consumption
Reduction in corporate energy usage
Reduction in e-waste
Initiation/promotion of computing recycling program
Simply go to the Green Pledge Group, state your name, title, company, Green Pledge initiative, and the goals you hope to achieve (where it applies, please provide the metric you which to be measured against, such as "a 25% reduction in corporate computing energy consumption").
Your pledge might be:
- "I will eliminate the need for 300 servers"
- "I will push out double-sided printing to my company"
- "I will walk to work one day a week"
- "I will change to energy-saving light bulbs at home"
Or anything else that can help save the planet.
On Earth Day 2009, CIOZone will announce a "Call for Pledges"—asking all those who made a pledge to tell us how they made out.
The CIOZone will then review all pledges to see which teams reached or exceeded their goals. The CIOZone will profile those who produced the most dramatic results, and recognize those outstanding CIOs/IT departments with the SIMNY/CIOZone Green Pledge Award.
So, please join us.
We'll keep this Pledge Posting forum open until May 15.
If you have any questions, please contact:
John McCormick
Chief Content Officer
CIOZone
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You must be a registered member of the CIOZone, logged in, and a member of the Green IT pledge group, click here to join - Select Join Group from the Standard Functions Menu.
To Access the Green IT Pledge Group Click Here and select the "group forum" link to participate.
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