GREEN COMPUTING THROUGH TELECOMMUTING

Abstract

Green computing is a technology that tends towards the sustainability of the environment, through energy efficiency, electronic waste reduction, virtualization, employing thin client, remote administration, green power administration and telecommuting. Commuting entails movement from one point to another, with the aim of satisfying individual needs. The population of people all around the world keeps growing exponentially and the major means of transportation is by road using specifically motor vehicles and sometime locomotive trains which exhaust is Carbon Monoxide (CO). CO has been categorized as a harmful substance to the surrounding, and thus creates more challenges to global warming. In lieu of this, telecommuting has been identified as a major weapon to control the challenge. This technology is a product of information communication technology, specifically the e-commerce. With this technology, the rate at which commuters travel is drastically reduced, thus the rate of deposition of CO to the environment is correspondingly reduced, and thus paving way for a greener environment. This concept termed telecommuting is embraced in this research by introducing e-commerce to a livestock production farm, and software engineering models were emplored to design a reliable on-line shopping for a farm. In the findings, the adoption of this technology by clients and farm workers in the livestock farm has reduced foot print on this axis through the technology of telecommuting. This in turn reduced the rate of deposition of CO to the atmosphere.