
By Gemma Simpson
Published: Tuesday 04 December 2007
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Name
Guy Reynolds
Location
Letchworth, UK
Occupation
IT Manager
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Rather than being clueless us Techies have seen through the concept of Carbon Foot printing for the hyped farce that it is, and are working to reduce the energy and material consumption that we can control.
There are no agreed methodologies for carbon foot printing and what gets included and passed on to whom and when. As a result any business can argue that it has a zero carbon footprint because it passes on its carbon to the consumers of its goods and services. If it can't then why am I expected to offset the carbon emissions of my flights rather than the airline doing it and if they pass to me why don't they pass on to the hotel where I am staying?
I suspect that the 2% figure includes the heating ...
Roger Huffadine
Maybe the "techies", being economically and mathem...
David Gaskill
Absolutely!
Great to hear that someone in the c...
Charles Wood
Thanks Roger for summing up my feelings.
The on...
Sarah
Rather than being clueless us Techies have seen th...
Guy Reynolds
look at this right, gov says "buy eco friendly kit...
Jay
Yep, there is indeed a load of rubbish talked abou...
Mark Hosey
hey Charlie, take your head out of the sand (or ma...
polar bear
4 men running 1Km produce more CO2 than 1 car (cap...
Anonymous
Hey Polar Bear
Ice melts @ just above Zero degr...
Sun worshiper
I also take offence at the "Techies" appelation wi...
Karen Challinor
Anonymous. The difference is the four runners are ...
Mark Hosey
Sun worshiper.
Climatology and meteorology are no...
Mark Hosey
I hope the mapority of Silicon readers show sympat...
Julian
Mark H - I'm the Sun Worshiper (in case you hadn't...
Roger Huffadine
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