Other Campus Happenings
Caring for the environment is a U-M value. Look for sustainability efforts around campus under the Planet Blue umbrella.
Planet Blue Operations Team
is a campus-wide educational and outreach campaign with a mission to "Actively engage the University of Michigan community to conserve utilities and increase recycling, thereby saving money and benefiting the environment."
Managed Print Services
helps U-M departments evaluate their printing environment and recommends ways to save money and the environment through changes to their printing services.
Where It's Happening
Green IT Achievement
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More than 50 units around campus have been recognized for their efforts to improve the sustainability of computing in their area.
Units are awarded Green IT Achievement at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels for following green computing best practices, from implementing power settings to using recycled paper.
Power Management
Forty-five campus units are working to reduce the power consumption of their desktop computers with the Computer Power and Patch Management (CPPM) service. The CPPM Power Data by Unit chart shows how each unit is doing in this effort. Is your area represented? How are you doing?
Controlling Campus Energy Consumption via the IP Network:
A Feasibility Study for Achieving Energy Efficiency with Cisco EnergyWise
What is the potential for network-based technologies to collect, aggregate and communicate building energy data to enable informed, coordinated management by key decision makers?
This presentation sets out to answer the question and explores energy management technologies, surveys energy management practices at Universities and goes in depth with a University of Michigan case study.
A 2011 SNRE Master's Project by Bryan Hogle, Hunt Briggs, Tim Haines and Sarah Howie
Implementing Power Save Settings at MAIS
The former Michigan Administrative Information Systems (now part of Information and Technology Services (ITS)) undertook implementation of the Sustainable Computing best practices. This Workstation Best Practice Case Study (2009) documents some of the challenges they encountered and the solutions they identified.
Green IT Symposium
The Green IT Symposium featured a number of campus units presenting on the sustainable computing efforts underway in their units. The conference explored:
- Technical challenges of green computing
- Budgeting issues
- How to facilitate behavior change
- U-M sustainable computing services
- Vendor-provided sustainable computing products
The 2009 sessions are available for you to explore.
Share your story
If you have a sustainable computing story to tell, please let us know.