Dan LykeYeah, I know, everyone else is sharing the article, but we need this message in the public consciousness: Working from home may reduce a person's carbon footprint by 50%.
beSpacific@danlyke The paper referenced in the article is - #Climatemitigation potentials of #teleworking are sensitive to changes in #lifestyle and #workplace rather than #ICT usage - https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2304099120
bojkotiMalbona@bespacific @danlyke It’s hard to accept these astonishing results. If you heat a well-insulated commercial building for 1000 workers, surely that has a much lower footprint than heating 1000 individual homes (many of which are likely poorly insulated). Surely car emissions are insignificant compared to that difference.
What they do not seem to account for is careless idiots who will heat their house even when no one is home, or to a level comfortable for humans when only pets are in the house. Office working would have less impact than #teleworking if done right (cycle to work and leave the home cold when working).
@bojkotiMalbona the energy impacts of commuting likely outweigh any climate control issues. And if the would-be commuters are living close enough to use low carbon mobility options, they're likely living in efficient multi-family units anyway.
(And then we get to the non-energy impacts of commuting, and it all goes to hell even harder.)