photo: Keith Williamson via flickr With a new debate ongoing on whether the touted environmental benefits of telecommuting are true, here’s a related tangent to consider: A new white paper done by Cooler at the behest of eBay attempts to quantify the carbon footprint reduction associated with small, online businesses. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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eBay Says Small, Online Retail Beats Brick-and-Mortar On Carbon Footprint & Calculates By How Much
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Industrial designer Nitipak Samsen is concerned that “Global warming has been driven by capitalism, now we are trying to solve global warming through capitalism.” He has developed a sort of mini-carbon offsetting device he calls a A.T.R.E.E.M. ((Automated Tree-Rental for Emission Encaging Machine), which measures the growth of the tree and the rate of carbon dioxide absorption. You enter your activity (a flight, an electric bill), swipe your card and it measures the growth of the tree that would represent the carbon offset. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Instant Offsets: Measuring Device Calculates Carbon Dioxide Absorption
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