Now there is a program that measures your computer's energy use and automatically buys the right amount of carbon offset for you.Newsmaker.com reports:
"With the manufacture and energy used to run computers creating as big a carbon footprint as the global airline industry, green minded computer users now have an option to offset their PC’s carbon emissions.The Little Green Genie is a program that works by calculating how much energy is being used by a computer, and then uses this information to buy a proportionate amount of carbon credits to offset this use.For the average computer user this will cost roughly ten dollars a year, and with two typical Internet searches using the equivalent energy of boiling an electric kettle according to a Harvard University physicist, the benefits eclipse the small financial annual outlay." See full article.
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