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iLinc Offers 'Green Meter'
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Web conferencing firm iLinc announced it is providing what company
stated is the industry s first automatic IP address-based CO2 savings
application, built inside its Web conferencing software.
iLinc stated that its Green Meter uses a mathematical algorithm to
detect the locations of the people that are attending a Web conference
via IP address and measures the distance between the meeting
participants and the meeting leader, calculating the exact amount of
travel that is eliminated and measuring the amount of CO2 saved by
meeting via Web conference rather than traveling. The program
recognizes what means of travel would commonly be used for the distance
(such as car, small aircraft, large aircraft, etc.) and keeps a running
tab of the CO2 savings and its associated environmental and financial
costs.
It was during a lunch meeting some time ago with former Vice President
Al Gore, a family friend from Tennessee, that I had what you might call
an aha moment, said James M. Powers, Jr., iLinc s President and Chief
Executive Officer. I then immediately went back to the office to get
our product team working to develop the Green Meter inside the iLinc
Web conferencing suite to make it a reality.
Powers said, We know there is a direct connection between Web
conferencing software and environmental sustainability, so in an effort
to help customers and support the worldwide movement to counteract
global warming, we developed this tool to quantify the benefits of
meeting online. A lot of Web sites have basic carbon calculators, but
the iLinc Green Meter is a much more advanced application for measuring
carbon emission savings.
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