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Green Campus Computing? Does it familiar to you? if not read this and get learned!.


Green campus computing is a study based on how you can conserve energy and resources but still using the gadget or technologies, practically green campus computing refers to proper ways of using computers.

Some tips to reduce energy consumption:

1.PUTTING YOUR COMPUTER TO SLEEP

When you're not using your computer, you can save energy by putting it to "sleep." When your computer is in sleep, it's turned on but in a low power mode. It takes less time for a computer to wake up from sleep than it does for the computer to start up after being turned off.
You can put your computer to sleep right away by choosing Apple menu > Sleep. You can also choose to put the computer to sleep automatically when your computer has been inactive for a specified amount of time. You can also set only the display to sleep. If your computer is in the middle of a task that you want to let finish while you are away (for example, burning a DVD), you should set only the display to sleep.

2. PRACTICE TURNING OFF YOUR DEVICE
Do not leave the computer running when no one is using it. Turn off your computer when not in use. But if, you still want to relax after a long period of research (and still not yet done) put off your monitor or put it into standby mode. You may also turn off your hard disk before your computer goes on standby, select a time in Turn off hard disks.It is monitor or computer you may turned off to reduce energy consumption other device may have be turned off like speakers when your in silent mood, printers when your not ready yet to print your documents or enhancements when not in use.

3. REVIEWING YOUR ENCODED DOCUMENTS BEFORE PRINTING

It is like hitting two birds in one stone, you will conserve energy at the same time bond papers and ink.Besides electricity and paper, computers use diskettes and printers consume toner. Both of these items are mostly plastic, so throwing them away is wasteful. For rewritable compact disk, instead of buying more you can just reformat and reuse old ones. Most offices have drawers full of old disks, used for either archival backups or containing old versions of software. All they need is a new label and a reformatting; this can save your office money and landfill space simultaneously.

4.INK REFILLING

Toner cartridges, both for laser printers and ink jets, can be easily refilled and reused. Several local vendors and national manufacturers will pick up your used cartridges, refill them and sell them for half the price of a new one, and remanufacture them if necessary. A growing number of campus offices are using these recycled cartridges, with excellent results. Further, printer ribbons, for those people with dot matrix printers, can be re-inked for a small price. For more information, call Campus Recycling at 346-1529.

]5. E-MAILING AND FAX
Use e-mail as an alternative communication (whether you want it to pass documents to your friends etc.) instead of printing them out. E-mail and fax is efficient and environment friendly because you don't have to write downs bulk mails just to inform others. If you have a fax modem, its even easier to tell your representatives how you feel, either by E-mail or fax. In fact, a fax costs less than a letter! A one page fax takes about a minute to send, which costs about 20 cents for the phone call, while a letter takes 32 cents for the stamp, as well as paper and an envelope. And of course you can do a phone list and fax as many as you like.


6. BE RESOURCEFUL TROUGH UPDATING YOUR PC

In this generation all kinds of changes is translucent. It is easily be spotted everywhere you take your sight changes is there. In field of technologies it is a pretty obvious for changes is just a matter of seconds, the accordance of the transformation is the cosmic amount of waste. Eventually, gadgets are easy be changed depending on what technology trends available in the market. There's a enormous waste in the matter of dumping the older gadget and adapting the newest one. In these situation, people become unreasonable for longing to be accepted by the crowd. It is undeniable.
So you want the latest technology. Your 2400 baud modem isn't fast enough, and your 80 megabyte hard drive is full, and your 386 processor can't run the latest software. In this modern, disposable society, you would normally just throw the old out and get a whole new computer. But we now know that such behavior is wasteful and foolish.
Instead, you can just upgrade your computer or peripherals as necessary. Anyone, and I do mean anyone, can install a new modem or motherboard. It just takes some patience and a good set of instructions. Alternatively, you can have a professional do it for a lot cheaper than a whole new computer.


The mother earth is shouting us to wake us that shes slowly ruin. Everyone can have done something to help the environment in your own simple way by conveying the above tips. This can be applied to us students. Please be vigilant enough by doing something to save energy use by simply practicing this tips. Please be guided and convey this message to all your friends and let us work hand-on-hand solving environmental problem.

Helping mother earth will never be too late if we all will join hand-on-hand working to find solution on the problem and find alternatives to rebirth the earth again. It is not impossible if we believe and with proper and enough assistance. Thus, if people is discipline enough and with concern to the devastating condition of our beloved mother earth destruction would never be happened. But is still it is not late but we have to work it now before it becomes too late and nothing will left to us.

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Visit these sites for more information regarding the topic or article about Green Campus Computing:

http://chronicle.com/free/2009/01/10296n.htm
http://greencampus.winserve.org/greencampus/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=40
http://www.uoregon.edu/~recycle/Conservation_computing_text.htm[/color]