GreenITTools.com Hosts Two Webinars

Green IT Tools.com is pleased to announced two interactive webinars focusing first on getting up to speed with Green IT and then the practical steps to assess your organization's IT impact.  We will help you to create a strategy to "Green Your IT".  The webinars will take place on November 27, 2008 at 1pm EST (10am PST) and December 4, 2008.

Webinar Description - Introduction to Green IT - November 27, 2008

Information technology is an essential component of every organization’s infrastructure, but also an area with significant environmental impacts. E-waste in landfills, toxic chemicals from computers and peripherals, rising energy costs and climate change emissions—these are all issues your organization can’t afford to ignore. Fortunately, there are ways to mitigate your impacts.

Introduction to Green IT, an interactive webinar focuses on simple and cost-effective ways to make your organization’s information technology systems as eco-friendly as possible. In this 60-minute presentation, you’ll learn:

• the critical environmental impact associated with computers, peripherals, and other IT equipment
• specific ways to minimize your IT impact through green purchasing programs and energy saving measures
• resources to help you make smart IT decisions that minimize your environmental impact and save you money!

This webinar is designed for the “everyday” person who is interested in learning more about the environmental impact associated with Information Technology.  It is also appropriate for IT professionals who need to understand how their department affects their company’s overall environmental profile.

Click here to register here for Introduction to Green IT.

Webinar Description - Conducting a Green IT Assessment - December 4, 2008

You understand the environmental impacts associated with computers, peripherals, and other IT equipment--e-waste, toxic chemicals, climate change emissions--not to mention the rising cost of energy! You'd like to start making changes in your workplace, but don't know how to assess your IT impact--and how that impact should affect the "green" decisions you'll make. Should you focus on power management software or greening your data center? Replacing your computers with more efficient models or eliminating individual printers? We can help.

In this 60-minute presentation you'll learn about:

• general components of a Green IT audit
• a tool to conduct a do-it-yourself IT audit (including step-by-step instructions)
• where to find resources to help you get started

This webinar is designed for IT directors, IT professionals and sustainability managers looking to evaluate and improve the environmental performance of the IT department. It is also suitable for individuals who are looking for a more in-depth understanding of how an organization can assess its IT impact.

Jessica Vreeswijk, the founder of GreenITTools.com, will be presenting both webinars. Jessica has spent the last six years providing IT project management, operations management, consulting and technical services in the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors. GreenITTools.com provides practical, hands-on tools for IT managers in small- to medium-sized businesses to assess and reduce the impact of IT. The Green IT Guide and Toolkit for Sustainable Business offers first-hand advice and best practices based on Jessica's own experience in spearheading a Green IT program.

Click here to register here for Conducting a Green IT.

Feedback from Previous Webinar

"Ms. Vreeswijk has clearly put an incredible amount of time and thought into the creation of Green IT processes and tools. Brilliant presentation. We need to get her up to Toronto to deliver this to the midmarket-centric Canadian business population. One of the most practical and actionable presentations I've attended on Green IT. " 

David Senf Director, Research IDC (Canada) 

" . . . practical, useful and very helpful . . "

Rich Carlson, Viridian Advisors