[CONTEST CLOSED] Happy Earth Day!

[meredithw]

UPDATE: this contest has ended. We really enjoyed reading everyone's innovative ways to save the planet, so thanks for all of your submissions! Our randomly selected winners are: @Pit99, @Cormac, and @Dieghitoo77. Congrats!

It’s Earth Day! In the spirit of raising awareness about sustainability, we want to learn how your organization is using Meraki (or technology in general) to reduce your carbon footprint.

This could be through using port scheduling to reduce the energy used by your stack itself, or it could be a bit more out of the box like using smart cameras to detect movement that indicates a machine was left on erroneously. For additional ideas on leveraging technology to save power consumption, have a listen to @stompson's Unboxed episode about sustainability!

The key is, for this contest, we'd like you to describe, via any desired mediums (text, video, images, interpretive dance, etc.), how your org uses technology to help reduce your carbon footprint. All comments will be entered to win one of three H2Go Bali borosilicate glass bottles with threaded bamboo lids:

How to Win

In a comment on this post, submit your earth-conscious company initiatives that are based in technology. Submit your entry on this blog post before 11 a.m. PDT on Friday, April 29th (04/29/2022). We’ll then draw three at random to win a Meraki water bottle! Your entries will be public and visible throughout the contest.

Terms & conditions

• Limit one entry per community member.
• Submission period: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 at 10am PDT through Friday, April 29th, 2022 at 10:59am PDT
• Prize will be a selection of Meraki swag with value not exceeding USD 50.00
• Official terms, conditions, and eligibility information

[MerryAki]

Happy Earth Day 🌍 🌎 🌏

our company has certain initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases to run a more sustainable business.

For instance we got a business unit that deals with CSR topics. Our emissions are monitored and we track down the emissions to certain things like travel activities, but also office spaces and equipment.

Thats quite complicated, but I enjoy to be a part of both teams (IT&CSR)

Certain measures we developed:

Donating old devices for charity

Green electricity

Alternative travel plans / train, car, plane compared with the corresponding emission.

So this was a small experience from my/our company.

Hope that there are similar approaches in other companies aswell.

[lescobedo]

En nuestra empresa nosotros usamos siempre tecnologia 👨‍💻 de cisco meraki, tanto en telefonía como en switches y elementos de red, los puertos poe para los telefonos y computadoras de noche se desactivan y ahorran energía tanto en los switches como para los equipos conectados a ellos, teléfonos, computadoras de escritorio, laptops, aún mejor todos tenemos por norma apagar nuestros equipos 💻 y nadie deja encendidos sus equipos fuera del horario de trabajo 👨‍💼👩‍💼 y todos dejamos guardados nuestros equipos y apagados dentro de nuestros cajones del escritorio ✨, además de que las luces y aires acondicionados se mantienen apagados fuera de horario de oficina, y obviamente a todos nos obsequiaron recipientes reusables para el café y agua así que nunca usamos desechables, tenemos programas de reciclaje y tenemos en varios puntos de la oficina tres tipos de botes de deshecho para separar la basura y reciclar, las tapas de refrescos y botellas de pet se reciclan y se proveen a una planta recicladora externa, tenemos un solo planeta, y lo debemos cuidar, feliz día de la tierra 🌳🌲.

In our company we always use cisco meraki ‌👨‍💻‌ technology, both in telephony and switches and network elements, the poe ports for telephones and computers are deactivated at night and save energy both in the switches and for the equipment connected to them, telephones, desktop computers, laptops, even better we all have a rule to turn off our computers ‌💻‌ and no one leaves their computers on outside of working hours ‌👨‍💼‌‌👩‍💼‌ and we all leave them stored our computers and turned off inside our desk drawers ‌✨‌, plus the lights and air conditioners are kept off outside of office hours, and obviously we all got free reusable containers for coffee and water so we never use disposable, we have recycling programs and we have in various points of the office three types of waste bins to separate the garbage and recycle, The drink caps and pet bottles are recycled and supplied to an external recycling plant, We have only one planet, and we must take care of it, happy earth day ‌🌳‌‌🌲‌.

[Philip D'Ath]

Not on purpose or through planning, but our office has pretty much become a "lights out" facility. We are now working from home 99% of the time. I think this is going to be permanent. The lights are left off. The heat pump has been turned off. The fridge has been emptied and turned off. Staff are no longer driving to and from work every day.

We setup an area for couriers to do deliveries to, and we set up an MV to monitor it. When we get a delivery we get a motion notification, so someone knows to go in and collect what is waiting or to process it in the office and then go back home again. I'm thinking it might be good to get a Meraki MT30 button for couriers to press when they do a delivery to trigger a more deliberate notification. I tried to get an MT30 previously, but I couldn't order one. I think they are available for order now.

We setup an MV72X and use Plate Recognizer to record pictures and number plates of all vehicles coming into our office car park - to provide greater security now that no one is regularly at our office. We got a waiver from our insurance company, and they said that the above motion capture and plate recognition are sufficient, so we no longer have to have alarm monitoring or guard response (so no more guards driving to our office and doing checks anymore, etc).

We also got the MT20 door sensors. Now whenever someone enters our office we get a nice MV picture to match.

We setup an MT12 to measure water leaks. We had a problem in the past when we switched off the fridge and didn't give proper consideration to what would happen to the ice in the freezer, so now that won't happen again. We setup one under our kitchen sink as well, as we have had a pipe burst in the past, and without anyone there anymore, it could make a massive mess before it is discovered. Imagine a burst pipe being left to run for a week at a time.

[Rajveer_Saggu]

Living car free.

working from home.
Using Poe switches

smart home gadgets which can control lights, air conditioning etc

all have major impact on reducing carbon footprint

[pavement]

we gave all staff a transit card, if they left their cars at home,

turned off the AC 2 hours before EOD and swapped out to LED lights in every other bank of light so less bright

[dropfreeze]

We installed automated lighting and Cisco Webex Desk Hubs to create a hot desk environment, eliminating 50% of office space and reducing energy consumption by 67%

[zhangqd]

One world one dream; Promote the harmonious coexistence between man and nature；Happy Earth Day!🎖🇨🇳

[NitinPowar99674]

Earlier we have use a analog sensors for measuring temperature and humidity in Foundry. Which some time showing wrong result due to that processing material would be futile.

Then we have shifted to Cisco Industrial Asset Vision Sensors like AV201 and Cisco IXM gateway.

Now we got a real time data of temperature and humidity through the dashboard which resulted in increasing productivity.

[samhindi]

our company (https://syber-technology.com) is based in Beirut, Lebanon, with the huge chaos now happening in terms of power shortage, we had to switch to solar energy to apply multi layer of power sources just to stay online, after inserting a power scale into our server room, we managed to fine tune our energy expenditure and diminished our carbon foot print.

since our convention of the CSR for corporate, we have engaged in a green CSR program with our partner https://lri-lb.org to plant seedlings in the name of our company and preserve them for a better chance to survive.

yep I look happy !

[dario000111]

Happy planet earth day

we installed light automation in offices to save energy

A clean earth is a happy earth!

Think green, keep it clean

Reuse & recycle, save our planet, think green

Clean up the earth, it’s the only home we have

[MerakiGnome]

I personally like the way Meraki package their products as nearly all of it is recyclable. Some work to be done to remove the foam from your bulky items however….

As others have already mentioned using schedules on ports to turn them on/off when offices aren’t occupied.

[Dieghitoo77]

Happy planet earth day

my company use solar panels to produce energy and buy energy only from sustainable sources.

in our office, we haven't food distribution and for the coffee break, we use only the recyclable pods and cups or the ceramic cubs.

[salmanr]

Happy EARTH DAY Indeed TO ALL OF YOU!

Please make the best use of the things around you.

• Less food and other waste
• Try to Plant Tress
• Conserve water around you.
• Environmentally responsible.
• Green construction.
• Green Public Transportation.
• Support Local industry products
• Travel more to discover green environment.

[AryiAm64080]

1、recycle old network devices with a low discount or a bit cash depreciation when buying new devices

2、setup responsibility policy in the office who is the latest one leaving office will be responsible for close the water and turn off the power

3、Paper recycling and real-name registration system

[mohit_dhanjal]

Happy Earth Day to all! We are working in Green Energy Projects.

Focusing on Solar Energy and Planting more trees in one of our initiative.