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Broadband will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 1 billion tons by 2018 – equivalent to reducing oil imports by 11 percent.
Broadband-enabled IT applications reduce energy consumption and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Broadband is already contributing to greater energy efficiency. Broadband applications will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than a billion tons by 2018.
eCommerce generates 9% less greenhouse gases than conventional shopping.
Newspaper print has declined by 1.7 million tons.
This decline translates into 21 million trees that were saved each year, sparing 5.8 cubic yards of landfill, producing 2.7 million tons of oxygen and filtering out 628,000 tons of pollutants. (p. 34)
Boston Consulting Group projected that by 2003 e-materialization will reduce the demand for paper by 2.7 million tons which would result in 9.1 million tons less of greenhouse gases being emitted into the environment.
By 2008 it estimated that the greenhouse gas savings would double to 18.2 million tons. (p. 33)
As consumer broadband use continues to grow, the ability to save paper would provide considerable benefits to the environment.
For example, if a household could save just one page of paper per day, that would spare 5 million trees per year, 4 million less gallons of water would be polluted, conserve 8.4 million BTUs of energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 700,000 tons. (p. 35)
Since the paper industry uses the most energy, outside of the petroleum and chemical industries, the reduction has spared 2.5 million tons of solid wastes, saved 67 million BTUs of energy and 24.6 million gallons of polluted water.
In terms of carbon emissions, the reduction in circulation has lead to 7.9 million tons less of greenhouse gases.” (p. 34)
If all of the greenhouse reductions noted in this study were converted into energy saved, we forecast that IT applications could save 555 million barrels of oil by year 10, or roughly 11% of the oil imported into the U.S. today. (p. 47)
If only 10 percent more of the workforce regularly teleworked - roughly a doubling of today’s percentage - greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced each year by an additional 42.4 million tons of carbon dioxide, as well as 2.6 million tons of other pollutants.
Over a 10-year period, the direct and indirect benefits of this additional telecommuting would prevent more than a half-billion tons of added pollutants from being released into the atmosphere and generate direct savings of “$96.5 billion, including the cost of 4.4 billion gallons of gasoline each year.”
The National Science Foundation, has over half of its employees teleworking, and reports that 87 percent of employees view teleworking positively.
Importantly, 87 percent of managers report that the productivity of teleworking employees remains level or even increases. In addition, by not commuting, on average “each NSF teleworker reclaims 62 hours of their lives and saves $1,201 a year. Extrapolating those savings across the agency, NSF teleworkers collectively spare the environment over 1 million pounds of emissions and save more than $700,000 in commuting costs per year.”