Sustainable IT with Google ChromeOS

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Research and case studies conducted by Dr Sutton-Parker find that Google's ChromeOS operating system is perfect for sustainable IT strategies. This is because ChromeOS is a cloud first operating system and therefore improves energy efficiency, reduces the need for high power components and ChromeOS Flex can be used to re-purpose existing Windows and Mac PCs. All of which reduces computer carbon footprint plus associated electricity and procurement costs. To help your company to calculate reductions, Dr Sutton-Parker invented a free online application. Watch the video to see how this works.

Research conducted by Dr Sutton-Parker finds that Microsoft Windows 365 cloud PCs enhance sustainable IT strategies. Carbon footprint and cost reduction is delivered by improved energy efficiency, device lifespan extension, plus the facilitation of bring your own PC schemes and hybrid working. Watch the video to understand how Windows 365 cloud PCs enable the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 12, responsible production and consumption. 

Watch a summary of the world's largest sustainable IT research project conducted in schools and colleges. The project was led by Dr Justin Sutton-Parker on behalf of The University of Warwick and in partnership with England's Department for Education. The project determines current annual end user computing carbon footprint, electricity consumption and costs. Plus, sustainable IT strategies are modelled to show available environmental and financial reductions. The findings will be used by the Department for Education to enhance sustainable IT recommendations to support net zero policies.

Published in Science Direct, this sustainable IT research project validates carbon footprint, energy consumption and cost reduction achieved by one of Greater London's councils. Conducted by Dr Justin Sutton-Parker with the Royal Borough of Kingston and Sutton Council, the findings support the organisation's climate emergency policy.

This case study explains a research project conducted by Dr Justin 

Sutton-Parker for world leading IT eco certification TCO Certified. The research tests newly proposed approaches to assessing product carbon footprint to enable the introduction of supply chain impact to future TCO Certified reports. Conducted in 2024, the recommendation are now included in the global certification approach.

This impact case study determines a 1.5 million kgCO2e carbon footprint reduction and a €6 million cost saving achieved by the Nordic Choice Hotel Group (now Strawberry) by repurposing Windows PCs. The hotel chain converted over 2000 notebooks and PCs using Google ChromeOS. The research was led by Dr Justin Sutton-Parker on behalf of Google and Nordic Choice Hotels.

Research conducted by Dr Sutton-Parker determines that selecting the right computer components, such as CPUs, can reduce electricity related carbon footprint due to improved energy efficiency. To show this, three similar Lenovo ThinkPad X13 notebooks are tested and compared for electricity consumption, energy GHG emissions and associated utility costs.