[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

[almightythor1]

we use Meraki to monitor smart irrigation sensors at a large sod farm to control all irrigation which reduced water usage by 30%

[Anil Patil]

We have introduced Smartdose,this Smartdose amounts to 65% less Plastic.

[MarcP829]

We started to use MT sensors in our DCs and already changed our settings for our air-conditioning, as we saw it was often too cold most of the times. Absolutely useless before. 😉

Company planted hundrets of trees regarding to amands of building new buildings (everyone employee is owning a tree now)

Also, we really started to turn of lights when, even at daytime in some areas if no one is there 😄

EDIT: Already saw some ideas which I will do as well, like power off ports in the night when they are not needed to be turned on, great!

[MathiasFR]

Hello community,

To save energy, we are using port schedule (I rename it for the occasion) on all our POE switches so we turn off our Wifi access-point 4h a day between 1AM and 5AM.
Nobody ever ask us to turn them ON during those hours.

We are managing more than 800 access points in 35 buildings so yes, the effect is not that bad !

I let you calculate the energy saved but 15Watts (in low power mode) * 800+ AP * 4H * 365 days is not that bad with this really simple trick.

Hope it inspires some of you

Mathias C. for Morning, France

[SSAY-AXS]

Happy Earth Day to al of you and Good luck.

Power OFF Coffee Machine 

[Karsten Iwen]

@SSAY-AXS "Power OFF Coffee Machine":

But be aware of the fatal consequences for productivity this could have ... 😉

[AhmedIsmail]

Happy Earth Day ! ! !

[Cormac]

Happy EarthDay - At ROCTEL we have policy to reuse, recycle and reduce plastic consumption where we can. We also planting trees in Ireland, now into our third year we are on target to planting 10,000 indigenous trees this will mean over 10,000 ton carbon sump will naturally be created over the coming 40years and 12x that over the life of the trees, we are using technology to communicate, document and monitor our progress. see our blog

[Dustin_R]

Happy Earth Day!
At Shaw, our leadership team made the decision this year to keep several teams working from home - Covid or not. This has resulted in less pollution due to employees not having to commute, less power being consumed to keep large buildings heated and lighted as well as less waste from consumables in the office.
Let's all do our part to help preserve the planet for future generations.

[asmosteve]

We enable power saving options wherever possible, and actively decommission older/unused equipment.

[BlakeRichardson]

We rolled out follow me print last year, the month of February for example saw a drop of CO2 of 120 kilograms and a reduction in over 14,000 less sheets of paper printed compared to last year.

We also have a nursery that plants seedlings to rehabilitate areas in the city and surrounding areas.

One area we are also investigating is renewable energy sources i.e. solar and how we can incorporate this into our facilities.

[BeintheNOW]

Happy Earth Day!

At home we recycle plastic bottles!

Cheers!

[zefeel.ali1]

Happy Earth Day!!

We have solar at work and re-cycle water

[SSAY-AXS]

The Cloud is Green <==> Meraki is Green

[LanService]

Dear our mother Earth friends!!! We try to raise awareness of the reduction in the use of fossil coal sources by replacing travel with the adoption of telepresence with Cisco - Meraki technologies.

Save water, Plant a tree, recycle and spread love. Make this planet greener healthier and good place to live.

Paolo