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Sustainable Email Use: CO2 Impact

December 18th, 2023 | by
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After highlighting the environmental impact of emails in a previous article, we now take a closer look at the digital carbon footprint of digital activities, including email communication. In the previous article, we emphasized that although emails may seem more environmentally friendly than traditional letters at first glance, they still leave their own ecological footprint. We gave some tips on how to make your email traffic more environmentally friendly. But what is the actual environmental impact?

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Green Surfing on the World Wide Web

December 5th, 2022 | by
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Google is probably the most popular search engine in the world.

Since 2004, the verb “to google” has even been in the German Duden dictionary. This is of course because Google is the big player in the search engine business. In 2022, Google became one of the most valuable companies in the world with a brand value of around 819.6 billion US dollars (source: statista.com).

But there are green alternatives that we can set up as our default search engine – after all, every query consumes electricity and increases our CO₂ footprint.

 

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