Spam produces 17mill tons of CO2

0Hazrul Azhar Jamari • 17th Apr 2009 • My Notes, Business, Internet Presence, My Notes, Business, Internet Security, My Notes • antivirus, Carbon dioxide, Carbon footprint, Microsoft Windows, My Businesses, Outlook Express, Spam, Windows

I was reading the BBC and I discovered the spam produces 17 million tons of Carbon Dioxide! How’s that for a good reason to ditch email? But as it is, 90% of online communication is done over email. It is indispensible in the business world as is akin to breathing. When I first started a business, and was using a Windows machine, and Outlook Express for email, I was amazed at the amount of crap I get everyday just managing electronic messages.

According to statistics of the day, 70% of email you receive each day is spam! A person spends 15 minutes a day on average dealing with spam. What I didn’t guess was this damning statistic at the amount of energy spam consumes. I didn’t think that far, as to the amount of power the servers needed to process this email, network to network, ip to ip.

One thing that I do at Verbeter is to think of solutions to improve the way we do business. It’s entrenched into my company culture that I created. Verbeter is a Dutch word, meaning, continuously improving. And I find or create solutions that improve the way we do our business including saving the environment.

Being a digital company, I’ve been able to do my bid in reducing my carbon footprint. For example, the antivirus that I distribute, Avast Antivirus, only comes as an electronic download. Its my policy, in fact also part of Alwil Software’s policy, to only distribute electronic download versions. This is our way to save costs, but most importantly save the environment.

Doing all these zen-ish things help me find my nirvana, and reducing the amount of spam in my business has boosted my productivity greatly. Do you get spammed often? What about viruses? Have you found your nirvana?

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