Reduce Travel Costs and CO2

Some components of travel cost are easy to measure on the balance sheet: the dollar cost of the tickets purchased, fuel used, and time spent unproductively. For many companies theses costs alone are plenty to see significant savings using HD videoconferencing, but the hidden cost of CO2 emissions is just as significant. Vanguard Truck Centers saved over 135,000 lbs of CO2 in 1 year just by reducing travel for just 3 executives with LifeSize®.

A daily cross-town trip in a vehicle (20 miles each way, 5 days a week) may produce 3.5 to 5 metric tons of CO2 annually, whereas a single round-trip from Los Angeles to Tokyo adds another 6 tons (and costs upwards of $6,000).

Jet exhaust is mostly carbon dioxide (CO2), and jets deliver this greenhouse gas directly into the most sensitive portion of our atmosphere, the delicate upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, five to seven miles up from Earth’s surface. Check how much you can reduce your own carbon footprint by traveling less and meeting more with LifeSize.

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