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...resident minicomputer. In retrospect, I think we must have been the last class in which everyone typed (and laboriously retyped) their theses and sniffed the vaguely intoxicating fumes of liquid paper. On return visits to campus in the early eighties I’d notice the steady proliferation of PCs (and later Macs). The tools we used to learn and create were evolving, and the clacky typewriter was being left behind...
...they designed a solar-powered Internet network that is inexpensive, easy to install and nearly maintenance free. At its heart is a regional hub from which wireless relay stations--some bolted to trees--fan out for up to four miles and connect a network of PCs. Total cost, including solar panels and relay stations...
...main task of computer-network manager Mike Nisbet at Rheem Manufacturing in Montgomery, Ala., is to keep 500 PCs and laptops virus-free and humming. Last year he was haunted by another worry: averting an avalanche. The obsolete or trashed equipment that he and his staff routinely piled in a storage room was in a heap 6 ft. high and growing. "I was afraid someone might get hurt," he says...
Like Rheem, many companies avoid dealing with end-of-life electronics duties as long as possible. When they do, many are unaware of the federal rule that businesses generating more than 220 lbs. of monitor waste a month (about 10 PCs' worth) handle disposal responsibly. That's starting to change. The number of for-profit electronics-recycling firms has doubled over the past three years, to about 900, offering alternatives to the landfill and the stockroom graveyard...
...Sullivan has an answer for that. Under the Carbon Management Task Force he set up in 2004, HSBC plans to boost investment in energy efficiency to cut emissions by 5% by 2007, using measures like automatically switching off staff PCs after hours. The bank will also be buying more of its electricity from green sources-the kind not generated from fossil fuels. Once it has come to grips with its own direct impacts, Sullivan suggests, HSBC may start offering advice to other firms interesting in offsetting their own emissions...