Small Individual Efforts Can Yield Global Change

By Pat Tiernan, Executive Director
Climate Savers Computing Initiative

Climate Savers Computing is built on the belief that individual actions taken across the world by businesses, organizations and consumers to increase the use of high-efficiency computer systems and power management technologies can have a significant impact on reducing energy consumption and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. Our organization is dedicated to reducing the energy consumption of computers and limiting the environmental impact of new and emerging technologies, which is why we a chose to participate in Blog Action Day.

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers to post about the same issue on the same day, with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. This year, the topic is Climate Change, which has obvious direct ties to the mission of Climate Savers Computing. It is expected that Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the Web.



Climate Savers Computing is eagerly anticipating the United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009 to see how the world’s leaders will unite to form a unified position and adopt actions to counter climate change. Climate Savers Computing and many of its members will be in attendance for this important conference because of its direct alignment with our mission: to reduce computers’ power consumption by 50 percent, which could result in a reduction of global CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 54 million tons per year.

Two simple ways you can support the mission of Climate Savers Computing is to take the Climate Savers Computing Pledge and follow our recommended three ways to go green to be a leader in energy-efficient computing. Your individual actions will make you part of a larger movement that can help change the world.