Overview
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Use broadband access to reduce your carbon footprint ...
Technology provides numerous ways to be more sustainable, whether at work, at play or day-to-day. In celebration of Earth Day, AT&T is offering simple tips to help consumers use broadband technology to protect our environment and go green.
Work
Make your office greener by using your most valuable workplace tool — the Internet. Whether you're new to the workforce, a primed professional or searching for the perfect job, reduce your impact on our environment now. Try applying these tips to your workday schedule:
Don't pollute, telecommute!
- Did you know? — A company that converts 100 meetings a month to Internet teleconferences would reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 720 megagrams (720,000 kilograms) per year. (Environmental Science and Technology Journal)
- Did you know? — You can contribute to saving more than 840 million gallons of gasoline this year by telecommuting and cutting down on business travel. (Consumer Electronics Association)
- Did you know? — AT&T found that teleworkers avoided commuting 100 million miles annually, which reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 45,000 tons, or around 1.8 tons per teleworker. In this study, broadband access to the Internet was found to be a critical success factor. (American Consumer Institute)
- Ways to take action:
- Making it to a meeting has never been so easy! Conduct a meeting from your own office or home using teleconferencing.
- Calculate the air pollution you can help reduce by telecommuting.
- See how AT&T's Telepresence Solution, a cutting-edge videoconferencing service that creates high-quality, in-person experiences remotely, allows business customers to reduce travel, and other ways we're helping connect people and businesses with sustainable solutions. Learn how AT&T is connecting people and businesses with sustainable solutions.
- AT&T Conferencing Services offers a spectrum of audio and web conferencing services which can increase business productivity with powerful presentation and collaboration tools.
Find work from home.
- Did you know? — Searching for jobs online and dropping resumes off digitally cuts down on the cost of traveling and gas consumption and – more importantly – reduces pollution due to travel. (Center for Energy and Climate Solutions Study)
- Did you know? — In January 2009, there were 49.7 million unique visitors to employment sites, an increase of more than 8 million unique visitors since January 2008. (Nielsen Online)
- Ways to take action:
- Search for employment using these and other career sites: CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com, Yahoo! Hot Jobs
- Get in touch and keep your networking opportunities open using a dependable e-mail provider: get.att.net
Become an online entrepreneur.
Play
Broadband brings entertainment straight to you. Skip the trip to the mall, take a load off your feet and reduce your environmental impact while you're at it. Make music, movies and merchandise more sustainable by following these tips...
Cyber shop 'till you drop.
- Did you know? — Internet shopping uses less energy. Shipping 10 pounds of packages by truck uses 90 percent less fuel than the average roundtrip to the mall. (Center for Energy and Climate Solutions Study)
- Did you know? — Using purely electronic files delivered over the Internet cuts down on the manufacturing of software and media on disks delivered by plane or truck, as well as the number of consumers traveling to search out these products. (Center for Energy and Climate Solutions Study)
- Did you know? — Each minute spent driving to the mall uses more than 10 times the energy of a minute spent shopping online. (Center for Energy and Climate Solutions Study)
- Ways to take action:
- Listen and download your music online and avoid driving to the store.
- Shop away! Online shopping, whether for clothes, electronics or music, can dramatically downsize your carbon footprint.
Stay socially connected using online networks.
- Did you know? — Meeting up with friends has never been so easy now that we have social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. So opt for a cyber social gathering every once in a while rather than a drive across town.
- Ways to take action:
- Find a carpool buddy near you using Zimride's Facebook application.
- Perform a people search and get back in contact with an old friend.
- Create your own social network using Ning.
Rent your movies online.
- Did you know? — If just half of all current video/DVD rentals transitioned to video on demand, we could save an estimated 180 million gallons of oil and 1.3 million metric tons of carbon emissions could be prevented. (Consumer Electronic Association)
- Ways to take action:
- Rent videos on demand without leaving your couch, using your U-verse TV. You'll also be saving energy because AT&T U-verse set-top boxes are 36 percent more efficient than other digital set-top boxes.
- Sign up for online video rental services such as Netflix, Blockbuster or Amazon.com.
Find your way electronically.
- Ways to take action:
- Save time, money and more importantly — fuel — by using AT&T Navigator. Navigator provides you with clear and precise audible and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, including full-color moving maps, using GPS directly from your wireless phone.
- You can also save paper by avoiding printing maps off of the Internet, or using old-fashioned maps. You can even use Online Mapping and eliminate your paper trail by sending directions straight to your mobile phone.
Day-to-Day
No effort is wasted when it comes to protecting the environment. Even changes to simple daily tasks can have an impact. Try one of these easy and convenient ways of being a more environmentally conscious citizen...
Use e-bill to manage your finances.
- Did you know? — Using e-billing services, you can help reduce the U.S. industrial energy and greenhouse gas emissions by more than 1.5% by 2010. (Center for Energy and Climate Solutions Study)
- Did you know? — Reducing the amount of paper-based processing can result in potential savings of up to $46 billion this year. (Center for Energy and Climate Solutions Study)
- Ways to take action:
- Calculate the environmental impact you can make by switching to online bill paying.
- Sign up for AT&T e-bill to pay your bills online and decrease the excessive production and use of paper.
- Check with other service companies including electric, gas and water companies to ask if they have e-bill options.
Read your news, online!
- Did you know? — Reading the news online generates up to 140 times less carbon dioxide than having a copy delivered to your doorstep. (Environmental Science and Technology Journal)
- Did you know? — If just a quarter of newspaper readers around the country switched to reading the news online, they'd generate just two to three percent of the carbon dioxide that would have resulted from the 14 million print newspapers they no longer need. (Environmental Science and Technology Journal)
- Ways to take action:
- Cut back on carbon dioxide generation by getting the scoop from your favorite online news site.
- Sign up for RSS feeds from your favorite news sites.
Think twice before printing.
- Did you know? — One ton of printing and office paper uses 24 trees, so start saving trees and time. Digitize your data. (Conservatree)
- Ways to take action:
- Many online applications allow you to share your to-do lists, calendars and other materials with additional users without printing.
- Go green by ditching the fax machine and using online faxing services.
Become an online activist.
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