eco-officiency blog » turn off http://eco-officiency.com/wordpress Bringing you Thoughts and Resources on Green Issues and Topics Tue, 22 May 2012 05:00:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Save Money – Turn Computers off at Night http://eco-officiency.com/wordpress/2010/06/save-money-turn-computers-off-at-night/ http://eco-officiency.com/wordpress/2010/06/save-money-turn-computers-off-at-night/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:00:35 +0000 eco-officiency http://eco-officiency.com/wordpress/?p=140 More than 31 million of the country’s 104 million office computers are left on overnight.  According to the campaign survey “across the nation, this adds up to more than $1.72 billion dollars and almost 15 million tons of CO2 emissions.”

It is a cost per employee of about $150 per year to power a computer overnight…essentially that is not being used. Implement an office campaign to turn computers off at night. Having trouble remembering? Set Outlook to send you a reminder every day 15 minutes before you typically leave.

Or entice your IT department to purchase an IT system that will do it for you such as Verdiem Software. This software allows for power management settings to be controlled by a central server system. Essentially it can turn off all computers in an organization at the same time.

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