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Chapter fourteen goes into more detail about a specific aspect of green transportation—green business travel. By far the most effective way to green your business travel is to have less of it, or none at all. For unavoidable travel, consider using (in order of greenness) trains, other public transportation, or car/vanpools. If you have to rent a car, ask for a fuel-efficient one, or a Hybrid-electric car. Though they typically cost more to rent, you can save money on gasoline, and avoid the appearance of greenwashing. Try to find a green hotel in the city that you are staying in (there are many now using environmentally-friendly non-aerosol cleaners), and always opt out of daily towel and sheet service.

If you are looking to eliminate travel altogether but still want face-to-face interaction, there is now technology to meet your needs. Video conferencing (complete with audio, and document sharing) is not a commonly-used tool. There are many programs which allow you to accomplish this effectively over a high-speed internet connection.

Do you travel a lot in the course of business? This could be “yes” even if you just have to drive a few miles to work every day—every little bit of greening counts! Could you bike or take public transportation to work? If that isn’t an option, could you telecommute?

I personally have never had to travel for business. Since my work is based on the internet my communication is done over the phone, via email, and an amazing video conferencing service called Oovoo.

I found some interesting statistics about video conferencing...According to virtual events platform provider InXpo, each visitor to a virtual meeting saves – on average – 1,217 pounds of carbon dioxide! It would take 25 trees a whole year to absorb that much carbon.

An individual replacing a 415 mile trip with a two hour videoconference can reduce total carbon dioxide emissions from 4400 to 880 pounds — only 88 of which were related to the power necessary to run the computer equipment.