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resources for staying green, 288–290 recommended practices, 110–112
structure as relates to staying green, 279 software requirements, 109–110
out-of-band virtualization (asymmetric), 248 storage benefits of, 107
outsourcing, 96–100 Unified Communications and, 114–115
environmental impact of, 97–98 partnership programs
locating service providers, 100–101 Dell, 178
maintaining, 100 HP, 187
overview of, 96–97 Wal-Mart, 206
payment for, 99–100 payment terms, outsourcing and, 99–100
planning, 98–99 PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), 4
savings and job impact of, 97 PCs (personal computers)
strategies, 99 equipment disposal and, 6–7
overwriting data, recycling hard drives and, lower power models, 53
143–144 reducing number needed, 267
PDAs, paperless office and, 114
P PDF standard, Adobe Acrobat, 109–110
packaging performance
Dell initiatives, 178 assessing/measuring telecommuter
hardware, 163 performance, 95
Wal-Mart initiatives, 205–206, 211 risks of storage virtualization, 244
paint, managing pollutants, 91 PerformancePoint Server 2007, Microsoft,
paper 259–260
buying recycled or going paperless, 89 personal computers. See PCs (personal
buying unbleached, 91 computers)
environmental impact of paper use, 104 Personal Sustainability Projects (PSPs),
overhead costs related to use of, Wal-Mart, 207–208
104–105 phones, Unified Communications and, 115
problems related to, 103 photovoltaic panels, 51, 199
reducing use of, 265 planned obsolescence, hardware, 162–163
paperless office planning
benefits of, 105 green process reengineering, 82
billing and, 112–113 outsourcing, 98–99
building an intranet, 116–121 plastic, paper preferable to, 89
costs of paper waste, 107 plenums, sizing, 73
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and, plumbing
123–126 low flow fixtures, 88, 210
faxes and, 112 water saving technologies, 199
handheld computers vs. clipboards, Policy and Legislation task force, StEP
113–114 (Solving the E-waste Problem), 21
hardware requirements, 109–110 polling, managing polling tasks to reduce
intranets and, 115–116 power consumption, 56
MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint pollutants, managing in organizations,
Server) and, 121–123 90–92. See also toxins
organizational realities of, 108 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), 4
PDF standard and, 110 pooling, storage servers, 242
practicality of, 106–107