Abstract:

Green computing is an effective approach towards designing, manufacturing, using and disposing of computers and its resources with minimal or no impact on environment. The goal of Green computing is to manage the power and energy efficiency, choice of eco friendly hardware and software, and recycling the material to increase the product’s life.

Keywords: Green Computing, energy saving

Introduction:

The term Green computing came into existence with the launch of Energy Star program in 1992 by U.S environmental protection agency. It aims towards electricity saving and less amount of heat generated by the computers. Widespread use of computers and related IT products has a very bad effect on the environment. Personal Computers are bad for environment because they are not biodegradable and the parts and pieces will be around forever and are rarely recyclable. Environment pollution could be because of the defects in manufacturing techniques, disposal techniques for computers and components. There are toxic chemicals used in the manufacturing of computers and when we use informal disposing they put harmful impacts on our environment. So to save our environment and to reduce the harmful impacts of computers we have to aware about it. Green computing can also develop solutions that offer benefits by aligning all IT processes and practices with the core principles of sustainability, which are to reduce, reuse, and recycle. The concept of Green computing has begun to spread in the past few years, gaining increasing popularity. This research paper describes that today computer is an essential part of our life, but we have to be aware about the harmful effects of computer on our environment.

Result and discussion:

A big question for a successful shift towards sustainable development is “What is Green Computing?”, which might be answered as “Green computing is an application of environmental science which offers economically possible solutions that conserve natural environment and its resources. Green computing is designing, manufacturing, using and disposing of computers and its resources efficiently with minimal or no impact on environment.”  And for better understanding, the need of green computing is also important. Green computing is popular now days. By using the computer we save our lot of time and efforts of humans. But the use of the computers also increases the power consumption and also generates the more amount of heat. Great heat generation means greater emission of co2. The major causes for Green computing are:-

Lot of electricity is used– · Most of the natural resources are being used to get the electricity that all have some impact on the environment. To save the electricity we have to use the green computing.

Creates more toxic waste-· Most of us are updating our computers, throwing our outdated computer resources, peripherals and other hardware devices etc, these are the hazardless toxic waste We are producing that really damaging the environment now a days. For that reason we have to use the Green Computing.

Conclusion:

Thus Green computing aims to reduce the unwanted and harmful effects of computers on the environment by reducing air, water and soil pollution. Though the challenges are many but with the ever increasing research in the fields of science and technology, we can overcome the hindrances. Through the small steps that each one of us takes towards adopting green computing measure s, we can make our environment congenial for healthy growth.

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Poonam Soni
Assistant Professor, Biyani Group of Colleges,Jaipur,India