Save the Planet: Work at Home | Wise Bread

by Kate Lister on 22 April 2010

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If every person in the U.S. with a telecommuting-compatible job worked at home on Earth Day, collectively it would:

• Save 900 Million vehicle miles
   
• Save 45 Million gallons of gas — $188 Million in consumer savings
   
• Save 2.3 Million barrels of oil — valued at $185 Million
   
• Eliminate 423,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases — the equivalent of taking 77,000 cars off the road for a year
   
• Save 28 million kWh in net electricity — enough to power 2,600 homes for a year
   
• Save 775 people from traffic injury and deaths

Less than 2% of U.S. employees work from home the majority of the time (not including the self-employed), but 40% could. If they did so just half of the time (roughly the national average for those who do), as a nation we would save over a half a trillion dollars a year and much more.

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