Sustainable Ability

IT accounts for c. 4% of global CO2 emissions and can help significantly reduce the other 96%. Envirodigital believes that implementing intelligent digital solutions together with encouraging your people to do the best thinking that they can do is a serious step forward.

Envirodigital offers:

• environmentally sound strategy development, focussing on digital and clean technologies;
• carbon neutral online events via webcasting;

and

• appropriate clean tech and digital technology implementations.

Strategy Development:

A CEO,  CTO or Administrative Director on their own is not going to define a green strategy.  It’s got to be something that comes at a board level, and something that’s accepted and something that organisations want to execute at a board level. Envirodigital can help your organisation develop a economic and environmentally resilient business strategy through your use of digital and clean technologies. We’ll help you consider your:

• people (customers, staff)
• supply chain
• information
• property
• product / content
• IT / digital set up and
• operations

By looking at the whole of your business, you might uncover opportunities you didn’t know you had, and see unexpected directions in which to thrive and develop.

Webcasting:

Events such as conferences and training sessions or briefing meetings can have big carbon footprints as people and speakers travel from across the country to a central location for the event. Envirodigital’s webcasting, (or eventcasting) services can vastly lighten that footprint by bringing audiences to your event virtually, as can our virtual meeting services (or video conferencing). Read more about it.

Clean and Digital technologies implementations:

IT has the potential to play a pivotal role in developing your organisation’s green strategy. In a world that is increasingly connected, building smart systems around  assets, processes and infrastructures can be the key to reducing energy demand. IT is also becoming more energy efficient itself. The latest hardware is significantly more energy efficient and produces less heat. Green data centres are being developed. Software is now available to measure energy consumption of devices and activities. Emerging collaboration softwares and platforms encourage effective virtual working, reducing the need for travelling.

Thin client computing – use your servers’ central processing power by maximising the use of bandwidth available to your organisation. Instead of each worker running a central processing unit (CPU) and separate screen, let each individual securely run a laptop as a thin client, and so reduce energy consumption. Utilise individual machines’ power saving devices or centrally manage power saving. Choose green energy providers and data centres to further reduce emissions.

Cloud computing – compute via the internet! Virtualise servers to help maximise performance and reduce energy usage. Implement best practices to enhance efficiency and lower cooling costs. All applications and processing power are provider to a thin client via a virtual server, accessed via the internet, hosted at a data centre. Many management tasks are completed automatically, and connectivity and processing power is now adequate to manage the computing needs of most organisations. Sure, server farms and data centres consume a lot of energy, but the ones we work with choose green energy providers.

Virtual Meetings – why not be carbon light and time rich, even with big meetings? By setting up virtual meetings, the chief exec could address the whole organisation weekly, show video, share slideshows, work on websites and white boards with you, and make it feel like they’re in your office! Board meetings and other participative and interactive meetings can happen no matter where board members physically are. Training and learning opportunities can be hosted effectively. Multi-national companies and universities are making the most of the opportunities that virtual meetings has to offer – and reducing carbon footprint and energy consumption at the same time.

Energy and carbon footprint calculators and aggregators – measure and display cumulative, monthly and daily impact figures on your webpages, intranet and extranet.

Digital marketing and customer development strategies – reduce paper brochures and the carbon cost of their distribution through developing appropriate digital marketing strategies and mechanisms. Increase the value of your relationships with customers via e-Customer Relationship Management (e-CRM) systems, using digital video and audio production to communicate your message to customers.

Digital advertising and PR - buy online banner ads on others’ websites and guarantee the right sort of customers direct to your site. Sell appropriate and context-aware digital advertising on your site and earn click-stream revenues. This reduces the amount of paper-based media advertising, but ensures the same number of eyeballs to see your brand.