Sustainable AV

Some easy steps to more sustainable AV

The Best Practices group from the AVIXA Sustainability Taskforce has released a checklist of suggested simple actions for AV technicians and operators to enable them to reduce their carbon footprint as they go about their everyday work.

Jul 26, 2023

Andy Ciddor ~ In Memoriam

Writer / consultant, The Kilowatt Company

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Produced in collaboration with The Milliwatts Program, the list offers some easy-to-implement suggestions that require no additional hardware or system modifications, and can even reduce operating costs.

This technicians’ and operators’ checklist is the first in a series of footprint-reducing lists that will eventually cover suggestions for all areas of the AV industry, ranging from system designers and consultants, to facility managers, integrators, and system installers.

The list is available online or for download as a PDF document.

If you’re interested in participating in the creation and maintenance of these checklists, please contact The Milliwatts Program.

Andy Ciddor ~ In Memoriam (He/Him)

Writer / consultant, The Kilowatt Company

Andy was a deeply committed tech-head who had played with a broad range of AV technologies since well before there was something called AV. He hungered to know how and why things work, and stumbled on the fact that he had a talent for explaining what he'd learned, so he taught and wrote about all kinds of technologies, in books, magazines, manuals, seminars, and online. He worked in AV, broadcast, live production, IT, publishing, consulting, and events. In the early 2020s he wrote the new editions of the CTS, CTS-I, and CTS-D Exam Guides. The most fun part of what he did was the research into developing technologies to see how they could fit into the future of AV and IT. Most recently, he became heavily involved in initiatives to improve the sustainability of the technologies we use in the audiovisual industries.

Vale Andy Ciddor — AV.technology