The Climate Savers Computing Initiative, in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program, will launch the second annual Power Down for the Planet – a challenge program designed to encourage universities and their campus communities to reduce their own IT power consumption and get their students, faculty and staff involved in the fight against climate change.

Power Down for the Planet will bring together college campuses across the nation and around the world to make a shared commitment to sustainable computing practices. The challenge includes a competition to see which university can recruit the highest total pledges as well as the largest percentage of their campus community to pledge support to Climate Savers Computing.

Participating universities will be featured on this Web site, where they will be able to see in real time how many of their students, faculty and staff commit to using power management tools and the overall collective impact of the Power Down for the Planet challenge.

Timeline

The second annual Power Down for the Planet pledge challenge will launch in fall 2010.

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¹ Based on U.S. EPA estimate of average energy saved annually by enabling power management on a desktop computer that is left on 24 hours a day, U.S. EPA estimate of average tons of CO2 produced per car, and an average energy cost of $0.10559/kWH.