Archive for the ‘broadband’ Category

Can you imagine a world without offices, a world where people don’t have to commute, where paper and plastics are not so readily consumed, where people did all their shopping from home. Well, there are studies going on to determine how that can come to be in the near future. Broadband, the Internet and Telecommunications will be a big part of a comprehensive energy policy, and may get us there sooner than you think. There is a worldwide push in the direction of expanding Broadband capabilities and other related technologies, to help countries throughout the world reach that lofty goal of lowering the greenhouse emissions before the point of no return.

Here’s a list of how the widespread use of broadband can help the environment:

• Business to Business and Business to Consumer E-Commerce: less energy use
• Telecommuting: less people driving, less construction, less energy use.
• Teleconferencing:less airline travel.
• Reduction in Mail Services: less energy use, less paper.
• Downloading of Music and Videos :Less Plastic consumption.
• Electronic Documents & E-mail: Reduction of Office Paper.
• Shifting of Newspaper & Magazine subscriptions to Online Media: reduction in paper consumption.

This list is only the beginning of the benefits that broadband can bring to the environment. We are lucky here in the U.S. that broadband is so widely available, and yet only 1 out of 2 homes have broadband. When we look into ways on how to reduce our carbon footprint, whether we are an individual, business or governmental entity, let’s not overlook the benefits that broadband can have on energy use and the environment.

Two very interesting articles on this subject :

Broadband Services: Economic and Environmental Benefits

Towards a High Bandwidth-Low carbon Future

 

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