Lights, heating and cooling, computers, printers, copier, business travel, and commuting - there are all ways that our office, even if it is small or family business, contributes to global climate change, the gradual warming in global temperature which looms as one of the world's most vexing environmental and economic problems.
Lights, heating and cooling, computers, printers, copier, business travel, and commuting - there are all ways that our office, even if it is small or family business, contributes to global climate change, the gradual warming in global temperature which looms as one of the world's most vexing environmental and economic problems.
Here are some key factors:
Office buildings account for 19% of all commercial energy consumption.
7% of office building energy consumption is electricity, which used for lighting, heating, cooling and office equipment.
office building account for 21.8% energy expenditures in commercial buildings, as a cost of $17.8 billion annually.
More than 25% of U.S. GHG emissions are from transportation sources. This includes travel by road, rail, and air, including the transportation- related emissions generated by employees traveling for office-related business and commuting to and from their jobs.
18% of transportation-related fossil fuel use comes from road transportation and 13 percent from aviation.2 Forty-seven percent of passengers on U.S. domestic flights are traveling for business
Data from USA Department of Energy
