Track your Organization's CO2, Cost, and Travel Reductions with iLinc Web Collaboration

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Track Your Organization's CO2, Cost, and Travel Reductions
The Only Tool of its Kind A Clear Need for the iLinc Green MeterAs you know, traveling by air and car releases CO2 into iLinc realized the direct connection between its Web the atmosphere. CO2 emissions are known to be the conferencing software and environmental sustainability. leading contributing factor in climate change, which is In an effort to help customers and support the worldwide defined as the change in global temperatures caused movement to counteract global warming, iLinc by the accumulation of greenhouse gases (the most developed a tool to quantify the effects of meeting online.significant of which is CO2) into the atmosphere. When people meet online with iLinc, they eliminate In response to this, many companies, schools, and the significant CO2 emissions of cars and airplanes. other forward-looking organizations have instituted The iLinc Green Meter makes it easy to see exactly how Green initiatives that include reduced travel policies much CO2 would have been released into the air had all and mandatory telework. Unfortunately, accurate participants driven or flown to meet. In other words, it tracking of such programs proved to be rather difficult, enables participants to see their direct positive impact until the release of the iLinc Green Meter. on the environment.
The iLinc Green Meter is the only tool of its kind - an The iLinc Green Meter was created to enable iLinc automatic calculator inside the iLinc Web conferencing users to measure the environmental benefits of online software - that tracks CO2, cost, and travel reductions meetings, classes, conferences, and support sessions. accrued by meeting online rather than traveling. And, Embedded in the iLinc Web conferencing software, it gives you the flexibility to measure the metrics that the iLinc Green Meter automatically calculates CO2 matter to you: CO2, distance, or everyone's favorite reductions achieved by eliminating air or auto travel (for type of "green" - money. Use the Green Meter to each participant), as well as measuring cost and mileage monitor the type(s) of "green" that you care about. savings of meeting virtually instead of face-to-face.
iLinc Green Meter | ©2008 iLinc | 2999 N 44th St, Suite 650, Phoenix, AZ 85018 | www.iLinc.comHow Does It Work? "W hen Global Knowledge is hired to The iLinc Green Meter is a patent-pending technology develop, run, and manage a large that makes calculations based on each Web conferencing participant's location and the standard emission rates for corporate training initiative via iLinc, cars or planes. we can immediately tell the client how much impact that training session had Specifically, the meter determines the public IP address on the environment in terms of CO2 of each attendee in a session, as well as that of the host, and identifies locations based on longitude and emissions savings - simply by checking latitude coordinates. For each participant, the meter then our iLinc Green Meter readout. We don't performs a series of steps. It compares each participant's do any extra work and can provide location to the host's location. If the IP address of a invaluable information to support our participant matches that of the host, the CO2 savings are set to zero. If the distance is less than 200 miles, it customers' sustainability initiatives." applies an automobile CO2 calculation. If greater than 200 miles, the meter uses an airplane CO2 calculation, Chris Gosk, even considering short versus long-haul flight variables. Finally, the iLinc Green Meter tallies CO2 amounts for VP of Distance Learning each participant and stores the data for each session. Global Knowledge
Through this complex set of calculations, the iLinc Green Meter makes it possible to know the precise environmental effects that you and your organization are achieving by Web conferencing.
Also, the meter provides administrator capabilities for at-a-glance reporting on CO2 emissions, mileage, and Green Stats: How CO2 Adds Up in the Real Worldcost savings. These figures can be displayed cumulatively or in more granular views, such as by user, division, date range, session title, and leader name. On average: . A full size car (18 - 29 mpg) emits Every Meeting Makes a Difference 12,000 pounds of CO2 yearly.Le... [download for more]