Carbonbalancefinal
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The document discusses the environmental impact of office workstations, highlighting that operating one requires significant electricity and generates substantial CO2 emissions. It promotes the idea of 'carbon balancing' by purchasing plants that contribute to rainforest preservation, thus offsetting carbon footprints. The text emphasizes the importance of re-investing in nature and the potential benefits of going green in buildings, which account for half of energy use and CO2 emissions.
Carbonbalancefinal
- 2. there are offices ...
- 3. AND there are offices ...
- 4. “carbon balance” yours with plants
- 5. “buy a plant...save a rainforest tree”
- 6. to operate 1 office workstation like this requires 2200 kw hours of electricity each year this generating capacity gives off 1166 kgs. of CO2
- 7. 1 hectare or 10,000m2 of trees like this in the Rainforest can absorb, as they grow, more than 7 tonnes of CO2 each year
- 8. 1 plant from viva verde comes with a free donation to save 500m2 of Rainforest in Ecuador, Brazil, Belize or India
- 9. so 2 plants like these will “carbon balance” your office work space for no extra cost
- 11. re-investing in Nature with ... Grupo Ornithologico Balear i Defensa de la Naturaleza ( GOB) - Palma de Mallorca www.gobmallorca.com Fundació Natura - Barcelona www.fundacionatura.org Fundación Ecologia y Desarollo - Zaragoza www.ecodes.org World Land Trust - UK www.worldlandtrust.org ... Join Us !
- 12. IIb buildings count for 50% of primary energy use buildings account for 50% of CO2 emissions we spend 90% of our lives within buildings
- 13. “going green won’t cost the earth”