Technology Green Projects

The District Technology Department has implemented the following green initiatives:

• Power saving settings are activated during school / work hours
• Shut-down scripts are run every night at 6pm on all computers on the District network
• Purchase energy compliant, flat panel LCD screens instead of large CRT monitors
• Reducing the number of printers where possible saving on energy and cost of toner
• Continue to purchase devices with solid state memory that reduces power consumption.
• Using refurbished printer cartridges
• Recycling all computer packing materials used during shipping
• Purchasing energy star rated laptops
• Recycling 100% of our electronic waste
• Reducing the number of servers through server virtualization** thus saving on electricity and cooling requirements

** Server virtualization is a proven technology that enables multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server.