Greening of JavaOne
Thursday Feb 15, 2007
As if last year wasn't great enough with the Bike to JavaOne program, mad kudos to the JavaOne team this year for taking more direct action and cutting down on direct mail, instead, depending on word of mouth, website promotions (what Java developers aren't online all the time anyway?) to get the word out to the Java universe to come to the greatest developer conference ever.
Direct mail such as this "virtual" piece will never end up in anyone's mailbox this year. Do one better - don't even print it out.
Our Eco program manager has made some insightful calculations...
-Assuming (based on last year) direct mail is equivalent to 2.5 pages of 0%
recycled copy paper
-Total paper saved this year= 4.63 tons
-Greenhouse Gases reduced (CO2 equivalents) = 13 tons (26,297 lbs)
-Reduction in wood use = 13 tons
-# of trees saved (assuming 1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or
8,333.3 sheets) = 111
-Reduction in wastewater (and associated water pollution) = 78,616
gallons
-Reduction in solid waste (stuff sent to landfills) = 5.1 tons
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