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RSS feedsI make no apologies for the green hue of this issue. As someone who grew up in the country and now spends every free moment mountain biking, I know at first hand the damage caused by climate change. The IWR team gets to meet plenty of business leaders; some do excellent impressions of ostriches, but many are at the forefront of doing something constructive about climate change.
Ignoring climate change will do for your organisation what ignoring the internet would have done for it a decade ago. You pretend business is as usual at your peril.
As organisations change their operating behaviour to become less abusive of natural resources, information professionals will have to carry out intensive research into policy, technology, business practices, case studies and management direction. It’s early days and there is little information available yet. What information does exist is divided across partisan lines, both the partisan climate change deniers, and the many competing scientific theories about just what it will do to the planet.
At first sight, you may feel like throwing up your arms in defeat at how to go about finding out about how to green the organisation. But the debate is good. Greener ways of generating and consuming must be adopted – without repeating the mistakes made in the adoption of nuclear power in the 1950s and the tonnes of nuclear waste we have to live with today.
Trying just to appear green won’t work. Change must benefit our customers and our organisations so that they continue to thrive and remain suitable organisations for those they serve. To be green and to make money, we need to search for, collate and create information. Information is at the centre of all good decision-making and as society has to re-assess its energy usage, the information community is at the conception of an exciting development that could have lasting effects and benefit more than just our own community.
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