Green Week @ Pratt iSchool

The School of Information is pleased to offer programming for Green Week 2025 (February 3 to February 7).
Anytime during the week, drop off your eWaste or old batteries in the designated box in the InfoLounge (Pratt Manhattan Center PMC 6th floor lobby).

On Thursday, February 6th at 2pm-3pm, we will be screening the documentary film “The Internet’s Unseen Carbon Footprint: How Can We Reduce It? | Greening The ‘Net” from CNA Documentaries in PMC 610.

About the film: Life has gotten more digital than ever before. And the plusses of that for the environment has been clear…as in clear skies and clean air. What is not so clear however is this: when it comes to greenhouse gases, the Internet is responsible for 2% of global emissions. If the Internet were a country, it would be ranked as the sixth largest polluter in the world.

But the Internet is here to stay, so what can be done to make it greener? From individuals not hitting Reply All on emails or turning off Auto Play for videos, to data centres running on green energy and search engines giving back to the environment, host Prerna Pant looks at all the various ways we are Greening The ‘Net. (Running time: 46 minutes)