{"id":1007,"date":"2009-11-15T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T12:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2009-11-15T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T12:54:03","slug":"saving-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2009\/11\/saving-your-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to read on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsoup.org\/learningcenter\/hardware\/page12265.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">TechSoup<\/a> about the environmental impact that PCs have :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Electronics TakeBack Coalition, manufacturing one desktop computer and monitor requires 530 pounds of fossil fuels, 48 pounds of chemicals, and 1.5 tons of water&#8230;\u00a0 A report from United Nations University indicates that building a computer takes five times more energy than that computer will use throughout the rest of its life; therefore, extending the life of your PC by two years can make a huge difference in your organization\u2019s overall environmental footprint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re not particularly concerned about the hole in the sky, I&#8217;m sure you will appreciate low-cost ways to get a little more life from your computers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of things you can do before you give up on it completely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Software Fixes &#8211; Maintenance tools, Virus prevention, Open source<\/li>\n<li>Role Change &#8211; Test machine, Spare parts, Thin client<\/li>\n<li>Hardware Upgrades &#8211; More RAM, New hard drive, SSDs?<\/li>\n<li>New OS &#8211; Less demanding open-source OS<\/li>\n<li>Refurbishing \/ Recycling \/ Donating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TechSoup&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsoup.org\/learningcenter\/hardware\/page12265.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">excellent writeup<\/a> has all the details, with ample links to\u00a0online resources that can help you today!<\/p>\n<p>Save the PC&#8230;\u00a0 Save the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to read on TechSoup about the environmental impact that PCs have : According to the Electronics TakeBack Coalition, manufacturing one desktop computer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,11],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-environment","tag-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}