Green Computing and Green Technology based teaching learning and administration in Higher Education Institutions

Green Computing or Green IT refers to the study and practice of using computing resources in an eco-friendly manner in order to tone down its negative impacts on the environment. The major thrust should be to reduce the unnecessary energy consumption, decrease the use of hazardous materials, minimize travel and limit printing so as to have minimum impact on the environment. To implement green computing and green technology, the higher education institutions have a very crucial role to play as these are the hubs for disseminating information and implementing ideas. The concept of Green Computing revolves around making sure that people are practicing how they can save resources when they use the computing technology. In the present paper the authors have made a systematic study on how the educational institutes can save energy, recycle e-waste, to use minimum printed material and to store all information in edatabase for future use and modification. To make the environment sustainable the educators, students administrators, guardians have to shake their hands with each other and try to optimize the use of power and more use of e-material rather than printed materials to reduce the carbon foot print. The authors also propose that there should be proper initiative from government sector to introduce green technology and green computing to make this globe sustainable for our future generations.