Ajilon

Ajilon is a leading consulting firm, providing the full range of end-to-end information technology and business consulting services across the Asia Pacific region.  As our business has grown and matured, so has our commitment to sustainability.  Ajilon’s SAP Environmental Compliance Practice assists companies to measure, track, analyse and document their environmental compliance activities with greater accuracy and productivity – from high-level managerial duties, through to ground-level emissions compliance tasks.  Our Environmental Compliance Practice service offering includes environmental compliance consulting, project scoping, implementation, project reviews, support and a number of hosted solutions.  Leverage Ajilon’s proven track-record for delivery.  Partner with the trusted experts in Environmental Compliance.

www.ajilon.com.au

Bexton

Bexton is a dynamic Australian Company with a focus on attentive and flexible delivery of Information Technology Services. Bexton Green Consulting identifies and delivers projects that reduce an organisation's impact on the environment and have a strong return on investment. This is achieved through measuring and analysing the electricity use of server and desktop computing . Our project management and technology professionals then design and implement a program of work, based on our in-house methodologies derived from the PMBOK and Prince2, to reduce energy consumption. The measurement process is periodically repeated to demonstrate the benefits delivered, to control the size of the carbon footprint and provide input to annual reporting.

 www.bexton.com.au

Box Hill Institute

The ICT Industry is well placed to be the driving force for change in the new low carbon economy. BHI is developing ICT Sustainability training and education programs to meet the ICT industry need for people with ICT skills and a knowledge and awareness of ICT Sustainable issues.

www.bhtafe.edu.au

Intel

Climate Savers is an industry initiative founded by Intel and Google as a way of realizing the amount of energy we consume.  We are promoting both through our products and hardware that we can make a difference by encouraging large data centers to be aware of their energy consumption and to adopt energy efficiencies.  We are also appealing to consumers to turn on their active power management tools in an effort to reduce energy.

www.intel.com/technology/eco-technology/climatesavers.htm

Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta's environmental strategy is an integral part of its business strategy.  As one of the world's largest manufacturers of copiers, laser printers, medical and graphic imaging equipment, and industrial instruments, Konica Minolta's environmental programs include zero waste targets in manufacturing, extensive component recycling, reductions in greenhouse gas emission and water usage, and decreased usage of hazardous chemicals.    

www.konicaminolta.com.au

Lenovo

Lenovo is dedicated to building the world’s most innovative personal computers. As a global leader in the PC market, we develop, manufacture and market cutting-edge, reliable, high-quality PC products and value-added professional services that provide customers around the world with smarter ways to be productive and competitive. As innovators in the fields of electronic design and engineering, we’ve also created a new evolution of products that consume far less energy without sacrificing on power or performance. Products that have the smallest possible impact on the environment from conception all the way to end-of-life.

Just as Lenovo is dedicated to building best-of-class PCs in order to help change the way people around the world use technology, the company is committed to being a responsible and active corporate citizen, consistently working to improve its business while contributing to the development of society.

www.lenovo.com.au

Lexmark

Lexmark is a Tier-1 global supplier of printing solutions and services, enabling its customers to reduce costs, improve productivity and customer satisfaction, while assisting them in securing information and reducing their impact on the environment.  

At Lexmark, our goal is to provide customers with the best printing solutions in the world, and this means solutions that are also best for our environment.  Our comprehensive practices are continuously evolving and include every aspect of our business - from the design and manufacturing phase, to product distribution and packaging, through to educating our customers on how to best use our products and solutions, and finally, end-of-life management.

www.lexmark.com

IBM

of more than 1000 energy efficiency architects, development of an $86 million green data centre expansion at its Boulder USA location - the largest IBM data centre in the world - and a consolidation project taking nearly 4,000 computer servers in six locations worldwide and consolidating to less than 40 System z Mainframes. In addition, over the past year IBM has engaged with more than 2,000 clients to deliver hardware, software and services technologies that have helped them reduce data centre energy consumption and cut energy costs by as much as 40 percent.

Internode

Internode is an internationally connected IP carrier.  We manage our own private network that has high capacity links between Australian capital cities and between Australia, the United States and Japan.

Internode has established CO2 - neutral status for its entire operations by undertaking a major greenhouse gas emission audit and purchasing the necessary carbon credits.  Internode's major greenhouse gas emissions were from utilities, such as electricity consumption, which accounted for nearly two thirds of the total figure of 3899.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalents.  Other areas included employee services, flights, equipment, third party services and ground transportation. By identifying the types and amounts of its greenhouse gas emissions, Internode was able to reduce or remove the effect of those emissions by purchasing 3900 fully certified carbon credit offsets.

This greenhouse gas emission audit is just the first step in Internode’s long-term commitment to minimising its environmental impact.  Internode’s CO2 - neutral status has a powerful morale-boosting effect for employees, partners and customers by reassuring them that Internode is an environmentally responsible organisation.

Innovation, underpinned by new technologies, has a crucial role to play in resolving some of the major environmental issues of our times. The Victorian Government is working to support advanced ICT capabilities in Victoria to meet these challenges.

Already there are several ICT projects in which the Victorian Government is supporting leading edge technological developments with real-world environmental applications.

Leading-edge use of broadband through the Government’s Broadband Innovation Fund is supporting environmental projects in agriculture, climate change and natural resource management. Moreover, through the National ICT Australia (NICTA) Victoria Research Laboratory, world-leading commercial ICT solutions are being developed including the NICTOR wireless moisture sensors for regulating agricultural irrigation.

Alongside industry the Victorian Government is also delivering the Byteback program, offering Victorian households the chance to dispose of unwanted computers and other ICT products in an environmentally responsible way, with up to 97 per cent of materials recovered to be recycled or re-used.

Prima

Established in 1991, Prima Consulting are expert in Business Intelligence (BI), encompassing the entire BI sphere including master data management, code set maintenance, chart of accounts management, data cleansing and the production of reporting and analytical systems. Prima Consulting has developed data warehouse applications where tens of millions of transactions and many terabytes of data per day, is summarised and analysed by hundreds of users.

Over the last 18 months the Company have heavily invested in R&D to establish a Sustainability solution based on NGERS and GRI to assist companies to:

• Reduce the complexity of NGERS reporting
• Report weekly progress on initiatives to all levels of management
• Integrate sustainability reporting within existing BI and performance management tools
• Allow sophisticated analysis of process cost-centres to determine opportunities for improving performance.
• Reduce the risk of non-compliance with Australian Legislation by providing a complete audit trail of reporting

Capgemini

Capgemini has  over 40 years of experience in successfully working with Financial, Manufacturing & Retail, Energy & Utility, Telecommunication & Media, and Public Sector clients on complex technology enabled and business transformation projects. Capgemini delivers positive outcomes to clients in demanding and rapidly changing business environments - this includes supporting clients and helping them to deliver Sustainability Initiatives against the Climate Change agenda. Capgemini has found that the sustainability agenda extends to many parts of the business and effects many stakeholders. Preparing for the Carbon Future has become critical for organisations, and Capgemini has been able to support organisations in the following ways;

• Compliance Reporting

• Carbon Reduction Strategies

• Sustainable Procurement Strategies

• Selling Green

• Green LEAN and Green Optimisation Programs

• Green IT Transformation Programs

www.us.capgemini.com

Environmental responsibility has long been one of the core values at Symantec. Being a corporate leader in the technology industry comes with responsibilities, and we are proud that our company is setting standards for ethical, social, and environmental stewardship wherever we do business around the globe.  Symantec, Altiris and Veritas software products help customers reduce energy consumption and improve  utilisation of their IT assets. Such “green data centres” not only have a positive environmental impact; they also generate significant cost savings and performance benefits. Symantec products help our customers change that equation by reducing their power consumption, shrinking their carbon footprint, and better utilising their IT investment.

Ideas International

Ideas International (ASX:IDE) is the leading global supplier of comparative intelligence on enterprise IT infrastructure. Servicing both IT vendors and large-scale IT users, IDEAS’ products focus on: servers; storage; virtualization and consolidation and software and infrastructure services. Our online products are backed-up by leading industry analysts that can also deliver specialist advisory and consulting services.

IDEAS provides an innovative modelling tool for datacentre managers to model their carbon output. The first product from IDEAS is “ServerCAR” which enables managers to not only calculate their carbon dioxide equivalent outputs from their current data centres’ server footprint, but to model the before and after affects of carbon savings of any planned consolidations or virtualisations, as well as being able to model performance, space and other variables. ServerCAR provides accurate configuration based data and leverages a full history of hardware dating back over 10 years. Modelling typical data centres through this online tool then becomes easy and  generates time savings and greater visibility over this previously hard to encapsulate data.

www.ideasinternational.com

Power Save effectively manages computer resources and can greatly reduce annual energy costs.

Power Save goes beyond what the native Windows or Mac operating system provides - in that it is intelligent. Typical operating system power saving techniques only monitor keyboard and mouse activity. Power Save intelligently monitors CPU and disk activity as well as allows critical applications to contine to run. Therefore, Power Save is non-disruptive. Enterprise reporting on power saving for both Windows & Mac.
 http://www.powersavesoftware.com

Envision IT

Envigreen products are devised for workplaces and communities to enable them make a change for a sustainable and more productive lifestyle. It is initiative of Envision I.T. Pty Ltd that has been assisting workplaces, businesses, universities, government departments and city councils effectively implement sustainable travel programs since 2003.

The small step with Green Travel is just the beginning. Soon the participants see themselves making a significant and much larger contribution to environment, workplace and community. Sustainability does not travel alone. The contributions go beyond Green Travel to other aspects of life such as using resources judiciously, sustainable health and wellbeing. This means valuing everything we use and we come in contact with. With time, the program makes a change towards a positive and sustainable life style.

SIMS LifeCycle Services is a Division of SIMS E-Recycling and offers refurbishment and remarketing services for all 'end of life' and used technology and electronic assets.

SIMS LifeCycle Services provides a proven solution that takes care of your legal and environmental liabilities from start to finish - from recovery, through to ethical and safe disposal, guaranteed data wiping and the regeneration of your equipment through resale or redeployment.

With our unique asset management information system you can be assured that, the process is secure, resilient and flexible, and allows us to manage your electronic equipment inventory and provide real-time asset tracking. All equipment that has no commercial value is processed as electronic waste under ISO 14001 accreditation with nil to landfill.

We are building upon the knowledge and technology developed within our global operations.

For every 1 tonne of e-waste recycled by Sims E-Recycling, between 3 and 5 tonnes of CO2 emissions are avoided.

www.sims-group.com

Byteback is currently operating in Victoria only. Planet Ark's Recycling Near You website lists similar programs in other states.

Individuals and small businesses can deposit unwanted computer equipment at Byteback locations. There is a limit of 10 items per visit.

Byteback is an Australian first as government and industry are sharing responsibility for disposing of computer waste safely. Sustainability Victoria is running Byteback in partnership with the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) and founding partners Apple, Canon, Dell, Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji-Xerox, HP, IBM, Lenovo, and Lexmark.

Standby power accounts for nearly 10% of total household consumption and nearly $4 Billion a year in wasted electricity in the USA alone. Carbon missions from standby power are roughly equal to all carbon emissions from the global aviation industry.

Anyone that has a PC and peripheral devices such as a printer, scanner, speakers etc should use a TrickleStar PC Standby Power Saver device.

Anyone that has a TV and peripheral devices such as a satellite receiver, DVD player, amplifier, Playstation or sub-woofer should use a Universal Standby Power Saver device.

TrickleStar devices typically pay for themselves in 6-12 months and then year after year they continue to provide cost savings.

The products are simple to install, inexpensive and easy to use. The products will commence shipping in Australia in October 2008.

The Energy Efficiency Branch is responsible for development of strategic energy efficiency policy to support the Government's action on climate change and to assist energy users to become more energy efficient, covering energy use in buildings, lighting, appliances (including computers and monitors) and government operations

Pollinate's expert research team of environmental scientists and climate geographers provide unparalleled experience, passion and insight to leverage our proven credentials in communications. We provide our clients with consumer insights and business-to-business consultancy services to ensure our clients become leaders in the rapidly evolving sustainability space."

Uecomm Vision for the Environment is to be a leader in the management of environmental issues associated with the development, installation and operation of a telecommunications network.

Our objective is to install, develop and maintain a high quality telecommunication network with minimal impact of the natural and built environment

Uecomm recognises that it cannot construct and operate its communications network unless federal, state and local government authorities and the community have confidence in its environmental planning and management processes.

All Uecomm staff are responsible for environmental management which will vary according to their roles and tasks.  Uecomm is committed to:

• Development and Management of its business in an environmentally sound manner;

• Establishing and maintaining processes and practices to comply with applicable environmental laws as a minimum

• Minimising pollution of the environment from its operations;

• Minimising waste generation by adopting the philosophy of “reduce, reuse, recycle”

• Minimising greenhouse gas emissions by energy efficiency and conservation activities

• Seeking to achieve best practice environmental management in all aspects of its operations

• Establishing a framework to pursue environmental management and sustainable development with provisions for continuous performance improvement: and

• Encouraging contractors to pursue environmentally sound practices