Sjoukje van der Werf
Join the Digital Cleanup Day and clean up your digital data in the week of 16 March 2024!
The Digital Cleanup Day is a yearly event to raise awareness about digital pollution. It encourages individuals and companies to take concrete action by cleaning up their digital data.
Digital Cleanup Day matters: since 2020 a yearly production of 3,169 tons of CO2 is prevented.
See Digital Cleanup: this is what you can do!
[English below]
Nu we aan het begin van 2024 staan, vinden we het een goed moment om terug te kijken op het afgelopen jaar. Welke ingezonden ideeën hebben we allemaal al uitgevoerd? Wat hebben we verder gedaan als Green CMB? En wat zijn onze plannen voor 2024? Je leest het hier.
----
Now that we are at the beginning of 2024, we think it is a good time to look back on the past year. Which submitted ideas have we already implemented? What else have we done as Green CMB? And what are our plans for 2024? You can read it all here.
Els Kloens
UMCG staff send thousands of e-mails every day, store thousands of files and submit tickets to the EPD. All these data require a lot of storage space. This is expensive and consumes a lot of energy. How sustainably does the UMCG handle this data storage? Green Team Communication visited our Datacenter Eemspoort and found out. Read more:
Els Kloens
Throwing away e-mails can save you carbon emissions. How does that work? Sending an e-mail requires electricity. And if you store your e-mail in the Cloud, it requires a server in a data centre. The energy consumption of these servers and data centres to store and send e-mails is huge. In the article above, you can read what the UMCG is doing to make our data storage more sustainable. But what can you yourself do to reduce the CO2 emissions of your mailbox? Read more:
- Zo bespaar je CO2 door bewust e-mailen (pdf)
- How to save CO2 by conscious e-mailing (pdf)
The UG and UMCG aim to make a significant and visible contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To make this impact visible, SDG labels are now being added to Pure. They are visible on the personal profile pages and overview pages of research units on the UG Research Portal.
In addition, it is 10 years since Pure was first launched. Reason enough for cake!
Commenting on blog posts requires an account.
Login is required to interact with this comment. Please and try again.
If you do not have an account, Register Now.