The Fundamental Building Blocks of a Sustainable IT Practice

We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.

– Christiana Figueres

In Part 1 of the book, we focus on the why – why is climate change an imminent threat to humanity? – and understand the role sustainable plays in the transition toward a more sustainable future. Part 2 of the book focuses on the what – what are the critical building blocks of a Sustainable IT practice? In this chapter, you will learn about the critical building blocks of a Sustainable IT practice. This is an introductory chapter for Part 2, What Are Sustainable IT Practices?, of the book. It introduces the subsequent chapters, where we will go to great lengths to explore each key topic. This chapter will give you a brief introduction to data centers and the cloud, applications and data, IT hardware management...