# IT consultancy offers carbon zero computers to charity sector

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/06/13/it-consultancy-offers-carbon-zero-computers-charity-sector/
- Published: 2006-06-13T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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