Big market, big benefits
Big government, smaller footprint

EPEAT was launched in July 2006, and already the Fed’s are mandating it for their own purchasing. The so called ‘Bible’ of  federal purchasing in the US (the Federal Acquisition Regulations) recently integrated the requirement to use the EPEAT label in purchasing. This means that fully 95% or more of all computers they purchase will be qualified under the EPEAT green computer purchasing standard. How’s that for a big market?!

EPEAT is also cool, in our opinion, because they have a “benefits calculator”. This was designed so purchasers using the standard can see what goodies they have created (well, to be precise, it actually measures what baddies were avoided).

For example, the Green Electronics Council (who run EPEAT) calculates that since its launch in July of 2006 purchasing EPEAT products saved a whopping 13.7 billion kWh of electricity. In other words, that was enough energy saved to power 1.2 million U.S. homes for a year. Just think how many homes in Sweden that would have powered!

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Posted by Anastasia on Sunday, January 13th, 2008 | Permalink |