Regular CIO Update columnist (and Symantec CIO) David Thompson argues that "CIOs have a unique opportunity to strengthen their companies green efforts through a variety of measures." For example:
CIOs can start by putting pressure on vendors to use less toxic substances in their PCs, storage, servers, and other devices in order to make it easier to properly dispose of these devices.
Do they count votes for no toxic substances in our PCs and other networking equipment? Geez, the Blue Screen of Death is disturbing enough.
Also on CIO Update, via internetnews.com, Andy Patrizio reports that this year's annual TechNet conference featured serious discussion about energy issues and the role of corporations in protecting the environment. Here's Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy at a panel session:
"We feel every company should take a huge eco-responsibility. Energy does cost money, there isn't a CEO who doesn't understand that."
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