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Greening through IT : information technology for environmental sustainability / Bill Tomlinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomlinson, Bill, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Green technology.
- Information technology--Environmental aspects.
- Information technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and labyrinthine layers of complexity. This book investigates how the tools and techniques of information technology (IT) can help people tackle environmental problems at such vast scales. Describes theoretical, technological, and social aspects of a growing interdisciplinary approach to sustainability; offering both a human-centered framework for understanding Green IT systems and specific examples and case studies of Green IT in action.
- Contents:
- Introduction to Green IT
- Environmental horizons
- Human horizons
- The role of technology
- Survey of Green IT systems
- Green IT and education
- Green IT and personal change
- Green IT and collective action
- Ways forward.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-28835-4
- 1-282-63833-5
- 0-262-28508-8
- OCLC:
- 642344508
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612638336
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