Your Emails Are Polluting The Earth

Kiera Butler explains:

[E:]mails—especially those with attachments—still use energy and create greenhouse gas emissions, even if you don't print them. ... Part of the reason we have so much data has to do with redundancy:Let's say you take a picture and send it to 20 people. Each of thosepeople then have to download it, which requires equipment—personalcomputers, servers, and storage centers. ... All of a sudden there are 7,000 copies,and because of that there are 7,000 devices that are being...

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Published on August 12, 2010 06:02
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