IT consultancy offers carbon zero computers to charity sector
Howard Lake | 13 June 2006 | News
AppiChar Ltd, the specialist IT consultancy to the charity and not for profit sectors, has become “CarbonZero” as an organisation and will sell computers that are CarbonZero for the first year of their life.
AppiChar has committed to becoming CarbonZero by joining co2balance, who will be planting sufficient new trees in reclaimed farm land to off-set the calculated amounts of carbon that the company produces, as trees naturally absorb carbon.
By becoming CarbonZero, appiChar aims to counterbalance the emissions caused by the use of everyday energy at their offices and also in business-related travel.
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The company will also continue to ensure that its customers are advised on the best options to make full use of the equipment they already have rather than replacing unnecessarily. For example, the company recently completed a project in which the life of the PCs in a 150-computer network were extended by several years, generating a large saving for the organisation and the environment.
Where new PCs are required, appiChar will be making them CarbonZero for their first year of their life at no extra charge.
appiChar Director, Ian Ryder, said: “Organisations of all sizes have to think seriously about their environmental impacts and take positive action to mitigate them where they can. Most of the energy used in this country is still created by burning fossil fuels and the subsequent CO2 being released has now been proven to be helping to warm the planet.
“We hope that by offering this service to our customers we are helping to raise awareness of the issues while at the same taking back some of the CO2 we and our customers are responsible for.”
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.