Clean and green environmental initiative
Document management and imaging company, Version One, has launched the EDM
green meter, thought to be the first document management solution of its kind,
which calculates carbon and paper savings.
The company’s document management solutions enable the electronic creation,
delivery, circulation, storage and management of documents, eliminating the need
to print-out, photocopy, post and manually file paper documents (invoices,
statements, personnel records etc.). The environmental benefits are said to be
considerable including reductions in both paper waste and carbon emissions.
The launch of the green meter, which forms part of the company’s recently
announced clean and green environmental initiative, enables the positive
environmental benefits of using software to be more accurately tracked. In
particular, the green meter calculates and reports on CO2 and paper savings
relating to the following actions:
- Distribution of a document by electronic mail
- Distribution of a document by automated fax
- Automated storage of an outgoing document
- Electronic document authorisation
The green meter calculations are based on a range of formulae, including
those obtained from The Carbon Trust (using DEFRA tables). The savings in both
CO2 and paper are presented to users numerically as well as in an easy to
understand tree graphic.
When 1% of a tree is saved in paper or when 1% of a tree’s sequestered CO2
has been saved, one leaf is added. Once 100 leaves have been added, the tree is
moved across to the ‘total trees’ data field, a new bare tree appears and the
process begins again.
More information: www.versionone.co.uk
