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Don't Pollute - Telecommute
Here are just a few ways you can help our environment
(and yourself!) by telecommuting:
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Here are just a few ways you can help our environment
(and yourself!) by telecommuting:
- Working from home lowers gas consumption, which preserves natural resources, reduces polluting emissions such as carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons, and lessens polluting road 'run off.' (And think of the money and stress that's saved!)
- Cool the globe! Less
commuter-related car emissions can help reduce global warming. Carbon dioxide
is the major contributor of global warming.
- See more clearly: Nitrogen oxides produced by excessive
car emissions combine with volatile organic compounds and sunlight to produce
ground-level ozone (otherwise known as smog).
- Help preserve our food sources - ozone and nitrous
oxides contribute to an estimated annual crop yield loss of two to four
billion dollars.
Find out how much your vehicle pollutes on the Environmental Defense's "Tailpipe Tally" website - www.edf.org/cgi-bin/TailpipeTally.pl Environmental Defense is an Earth Share member. - Less commuting can equal more green, open
spaces. Fewer
cars could reduce the demand for new or wider roads, which use up land
and natural resources.
- Enjoy the silence. Less traffic means less noise pollution.
- Become an 'e-commuter.' Working from home encourages use
of electronic communications like email, intranet sites, and phone - significantly
reducing paper use and waste.
- Live on a mountain top! If you telecommute full-time,
your home base is almost irrelevant - you can live where you decide your
quality of life will be highest…and in the long run, this may also
help reduce urban sprawl.
- Write or research for a living? You're an ideal telecommuter
candidate! Talk to your employer about a flexible schedule that will allow
part- or full-time telecommuting.
- To get more information about setting up a telecommuting program at your
workplace, contact the International Telework Association & Council
(ITAC): http://www.telecommute.org/, or call 202.547.6157.
Sources: earthshare.org





