One of the main reasons why people should work from home, is because it is environment friendly. Everyday, hundred of millions of commuters wordlwide take their car to drive to their office instead of using public transportation or work from home, and participate to spreading in the air millions of tons of CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases strongly related to global warming.
Today, more and more “socially responsible” companies are launching new environmental programs – not all of them are only meant to act as some nice PR or advertising for those companies - to try to make things change. They aren’t revolutionnary, as every one of them is more like a stone which helps build the big wall which at the end will give the big picture. But at least, they help.
Nokia has launched beginning of December, a great green travel resource that is up in beta mode called Green Explorer. It features travel news, eco-centered information about destinations, tips from fellow green travelers, easy carbon offsets, mobile device access, and loads more.
According to Jaymi Heimbuch on treehugger, this resource “is geared specifically for people who want to travel in an eco-friendly fashion and provide their own travel tips, and the site has quite a few features that can make it a top resource when it comes out of beta”
And for those of us who are dyed in the wool environment lovers who can’t stand the idea of leaving a Big-Foot environmental print every time they fly, Nokia has developped the world’s first CO2 emission offsetting tool to your mobile: we:offset. It’s already available in 46 languages.