Extra - IT: Time for green screens

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector, 30 July 2008

The computer industry is a major cause of global warming but there is much that charities can do to lower the carbon footprint of their IT equipment, says David Ainsworth.

Most people don't realise that the IT sector has nearly the same carbon footprint as the aviation industry," says Trewin Restorick, chief executive of Global Action Plan, a charity that works to help people from all sectors reduce their impact on the environment. "If nothing changes," he adds, "computers will...

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