GREEN MACHINES
Objectives
In this course we attempt to help you develop a concern for,
and awareness of, the impact of the computer and its applications
on the world into which it is being inserted. Many of these
concerns relate to human welfare and the "Big brother"
syndrome which the computer can create. More recently there has
been discussion regarding the development of a "Green
machine", that is a computer which does not have side
effects which impact on the global environment from manufacture
through usage to disposal.
Readings
- Computers & Education and Computer Recycling Corporation.
- PEP National Directory of Computer Recycling Programs
- "Computer dumping 'polluting Asia'", BBC News, Monday, 25 February, 2002, 12:36 GMT.
- IBM recycling program will benefit charities, the environment, IBM Press Release, Thu Jan 18 22:58:56 2001.
- "HP Recycling Program Helps Keep Computer Parts Out of Landfills - Program is Open to Consumers and Businesses, Accepts Products from Any Manufacturer", HP Press release, PALO ALTO, Calif., May 21, 2001.
- "What to Do With Your Old PC",
By Jesse Berst, AnchorDesk, ZDNet,
December 10, 2000 9:00 PM PT.
- "The growing threat of computer trash: Outdated computers are filling landfills with toxic chemicals and little is being done about it", By DAVID FITZGERALD, Blue Ridge Business Journal, October 26, 2000.
- Yurman, Dan. "Green Technology
Markets; Opportunities, Barriers & New
Paradigms", posted by dyurman@igc.apc.org 9 June
1994. This paper contains an extensive bibliography.
Last updated 2002/06/08
© J.A.N. Lee, 1998-2002.