{"id":19,"date":"2006-06-26T00:20:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T23:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paul.sinnett.name\/archives\/19"},"modified":"2006-07-09T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T08:53:00","slug":"look-for-the-epeat-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/archives\/19","title":{"rendered":"Look for the EPEAT mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a message from the IEEE. It appears that we&#8217;re finally going to be getting a <a title=\"The EPEAT website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epeat.net\/\">standard mark<\/a> to look for when buying green computers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course we&#8217;re all so familiar with the EPA&#8217;s <a title=\"The home of the energy star\" href=\"http:\/\/www.energystar.gov\/\">energy star<\/a> screen that almost every computer boots up with, we probably don&#8217;t notice any more. That mark relates to the energy efficiency of the product. Actually, from 2007, the Star we&#8217;re so used to seeing may disappear for a while, at least until manufacturers can qualify to the new tougher standards.<\/p>\n<p>However, the new EPEAT mark covers the materials, manufacturing processes, and disposal of the equipment. It will come in 3 flavours: bronze, silver, and gold; with gold being the best. They will maintain a database on their website. It should have already begun, but I guess it&#8217;s taking longer than they anticipated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a message from the IEEE. It appears that we&#8217;re finally going to be getting a <a title=\"The EPEAT website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epeat.net\/\">standard mark<\/a> to look for when buying green computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}