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This is great. RECs are not enough but they are damn sure directionally correct. However they have only covered the energy generation related footprints of th

This is great. RECs are not enough but they are damn sure directionally correct. However they have only covered the energy generation related footprints of the PoPs and offices. My bet is they have a small army of sales reps that fly one or more times a month, and that they consider frequent fly-togethers a core part of their embrace of remote workers. Probably something on the order of single digit million miles per year total?

ijpoijpoihpiuoh 8y ago
For anyone wondering why RECs are not enough: they don't make you carbon neutral, not even in theory. Even though renewable energy is better than non-renewable, the processes that built the renewable plants might not be carbon neutral. Also, renewable energy credits might just displace the previous user of renewable energy to non-renewable, which means that you won't have impacted the total renewable energy usage ratio of the planet at all. To be carbon neutral, you'd have to buy carbon offsets like Google [1] do. There's a lot of really complicated accounting that goes into making sure that you aren't just pushing the dirt from one place to another when you think about renewable energy and carbon offsets. [1]: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//green/pdfs/google-carbon-offsets.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...