{"id":2255,"date":"2021-04-30T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T12:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2021-04-30T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T13:00:49","slug":"the-carbon-footprint-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/2021\/04\/30\/the-carbon-footprint-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The carbon footprint of the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Last week I read an article saying that streaming Netflix for 2 hours was the equivalent of driving 1\/4 mile in terms of carbon emission, and that an hour&#8217;s video call produced 170g of carbon, comparable to a pot of Bisto granules. This blew my mind, and it was something I decided to explore further.<\/h3>\n<p>In terms of climate change, a lot is focussed on industry and car pollution, but who knew that a Netflix addiction (guilty!) was contributing this much to emissions? I also read how a typical email user led to 135KG of carbon being emitted into the air per year. Bonkers!<\/p>\n<p>My own view\u00a0is that\u00a0I think video calls, although still contributing, vastly reduce the amount of carbon produced as in pre Covid times sales and client meetings would take place in person, sometimes involving a 300 mile round trip. How much carbon would be emitted then?<\/p>\n<p>In terms of my own business, I am actively reducing the number of emails I send plus unsubscribing from email newsletters I have auto enrolled to over the years to reduce the number I receive. I know it&#8217;s only a small change, but if every email sent has a carbon footprint of 4g, I have some accounts with 160KG worth of carbon emissions that I have never even opened.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts? Can you make a small change too?\u00a0If you are interested in reading more, here is a rather nicely designed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecare.org\/resources\/news\/infographic-carbon-footprint-internet\/\">infographic on the very subject<\/a>. It makes interesting reading, plus it will make you think about your lifestyle choices.. I know I now feel\u00a0guilty for\u00a0all my casual internet browsing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I read an article saying that streaming Netflix for 2 hours was the equivalent of driving 1\/4 mile in terms of carbon emission, and that an hour&#8217;s video call produced 170g of carbon, comparable to a pot of Bisto granules. This blew my mind, and it was something I decided to explore further. In terms of climate change, a lot is focussed on industry and car pollution, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[162,161,160,159,13,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}