Green Tech To Grow In 2010
Gartner, a top research firm, is predicting that green technology have high growth this upcoming year. According to the firm, green technology along with other key areas could cause great change to how businesses are run.
One the biggest reasons that many companies may start to switch to greener technologies are to help cut costs, and reduce their carbon emissions. Two of the major ways that companies may start to use over the next few years are virtualization and power management software. Both are easy ways to help businesses reduce their energy consumption while also saving money.
Another prediction by the firm is that technology markers will have to begin providing carbon emissions data about their products. The data could include both production and usage. This stems from the fact that people want to know how environmentally friendly the products they buy are.
Though this may be an unrealistic goal in the near future, this could really make consumer more aware of just how much energy it takes to get that piece of technology into their hands. If something like this were to occur, I wouldn’t be surprised to see manufacturers trying to reduce the amount of emissions used in production as well as pushing out more energy efficient products.
I think it’s about time that larger companies start to take some kind of responsibility for our society and the environment; it’s just a shame that it didn’t happen sooner. Like what you mentioned from your previous post about the program that can help computers save energy, it will be really interesting to see people take part in this green movement to improve our environment.
I think this is great, but it’s really about reducing costs. When ‘green’ can equal savings, you’ll see a rush: to do good by the environment and reap the savings, so it becomes much easier all the way around.