Is eLearning environmentally friendly? You bet it is!

E-Learning isn't only great as saving companies money. It also helps save the environment. Two immediate benefits of eLearning in regards to the environment are:

- It eliminates the need to travel, thereby reducing emissions.
- It eliminates the need to print training manuals, thereby saving trees.

What's your company's eLearning footprint? Why don't you find out for yourself.

• Atmosfair: Let's you calculate emissions based on specific flights/airports.
• Conservatree: Let's you calculate how many trees are used to print your training manuals.

In short, a single-person return flight between Ottawa and Vancouver is almost equivalent to driving a car for a year (12,000 km, middle class model) or running a refrigerator for 19 years! And 1 tree makes 8,333.3 sheets, or roughly 30 copies of a standard Operations Manual.

If you know any other ways eLearning helps save the environment, or would like to share your success story detailing how you've implemented a green eLearning program in your company, please share it with us by posting your comments here.