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Business Travelers, You’ve Been Busted - for Pollution
view all conferencing topicsBusiness travelers are getting busted for pollution. The reason why is each time a jetsetter takes a round trip flight from Los Angeles to New York, they produce 1,600 pounds of carbon dioxide. Drivers aren’t so innocent, either. For each gallon of gas a vehicle consumes, 19.6 pounds of carbon dioxide go into the air.
Considering that Americans go on more than 405 million business trips every year, it’s no surprise that greenhouse gas emissions increased 16.3% from 1990 to 2005.
Environmentally conscious businesses are recognizing that they have the power to shrink their carbon footprint by cutting back on traveling. Instead of booking a flight or renting a car to make a presentation, they’re using Web conferencing instead.
Web conferencing has become a viable option to traveling because of the development of features like real-time application sharing. This allows employees to share documents, make presentations, and collaborate on projects without being in the same room. And with the addition of high-definition video conferencing, virtual meetings are becoming more and more like the real thing.