Harvard Business Online: Steven DeMaio
Making a business trip by air requires lots of totaling: your hours out of the office and away from home, the cost of flying, the number of carry-on bags, the weight of your checked luggage. Now, business travelers are starting to include one more total in their calculations—the amount of carbon emissions each trip generates. Delta and Continental airlines have plans to include carbon calculators on their web sites starting this summer, and such online tools are already available from a variety of other institutions. One, from the Canadian not-for-profit Zerofootprint, allows you to compare the carbon footprint of your air travel with that of your other energy uses. Another, from the British organization Climate Care, is specifically tailored for businesses in the UK.
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