{"id":10790,"date":"2014-05-14T23:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T23:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/15\/green-it-does-it-still-matter\/"},"modified":"2014-05-14T23:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T23:48:17","slug":"green-it-does-it-still-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/green-it-does-it-still-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Green IT: Does it still matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adrian Thirkill, managing director, Easynet Global Services UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, you couldn&rsquo;t move for &lsquo;green&rsquo; claims from businesses. In a rush to become the first businesses to go carbon neutral, hoards of companies offset air miles, replanted forests, and invested in wind farms. &ldquo;We turn our lights off at night!&rdquo; they whooped. &ldquo;We put monitors on automatic standby!&rdquo; they gushed. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All admirable and well-intentioned. &nbsp;But there&rsquo;s a worrying hint of tumbleweed as environmental policies move to the archives, and environmental commitments fall from the board agenda. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The impact of climate change upon our lives isn&rsquo;t lessening. &nbsp;It would be glib for me to refer to the recent winter of floods as proof, but the IPCC detailed the likely impact of average temperature increases of 2 degrees or more, and it makes sobering reading.&nbsp; Already, it says, climate change is negatively affecting food supplies, marine ecosystems &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adrian Thirkill, managing director, Easynet Global Services UK<br \/>\nFive years ago, you couldn&rsquo;t move for &lsquo;green&rsquo; claims from businesses. In a rush to become the first businesses to go carbon neutral, hoards of companies offset air mile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}