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Living Green For The Environment | Video Voice Calling: Saves You Energy and Money

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Video Voice calling and saving energy go hand in hand these days. Modern technology helps us Live Green by giving us the ability to work from home. Visiting our friends and family who live far away from us is easier and cheaper to do with video voice calling, while at the same time being kinder to our environment.

If businesses took advantage of video calling to the tune of cutting back  their travel by 20%, that would save 22 million tons of co2 from going into the environment. Not to mention how many millions could be saved by having to spend less on company travel. Money that in this economy could be used to put more people to work.

Video Voice Calling programs are free and easy alternatives to travel and it’s not just for business. It’s the most cost effective way to stay in touch with family, friends and business colleagues. But it is also the next best thing to being there.

Especially in this economy businesses and families that are looking for ways to stretch that dollar should really take a look at Video Voice Calling as a cost saving measure and as part of Greening their lives. Using  technology as eco-friendly economizing tools makes sense.

Skype is my personal favorite because I’ve been using it for years and it works great. I use it for personal purposes to get together with family in Europe and South America. With Skype you can make free calls over the Internet, the whole world can talk for free.

Here is a list of some of the Video Voice calling Programs out there:

AOL Instant Messenger

Brosix

X-Lite

Ekiga

Google Talk

KPhone

Linphone

Minisip

OctroTalk

OfficeSIP Messenger

QuteCom

SightSpeed

Skype

QuteCom

Tokbox

Yahoo! Messenger


May 24th, 2009 at 11:43 am by bibi in Alternative Transportation, Conservation, Environment, Living Green

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Comments

  1. wilson Said,

    That’s why I loved to use Skype to call my friends and family, bibi. It’s not only can help to reduce the carbon offset, but can bond our relationship within family/friends together! Sometimes, a simple call is more than enough, especially if you haven’t back to hometown in a very long period…

  2. oicned Said,

    Good day!

    I added your site to my EC drop list -> http://booksonice.blogspot.com/2009/04/entrecard-links.html

    Click on the “Green Earth” icon and it will open other EcoFriendly sites including yours.

    Have a nice day!

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