Blog launches “Broadband is Green” Feature Section

WASHINGTON DC – NextGenWeb.org today launched a new “Broadband is Green” section with an exclusive post on the recent roundtable discussion on the release of “Broadband Services: Economic and Environmental Benefits,” a study co-authored by Steve Pociask, the president of the American Consumer Institute and Joseph Fuhr Jr., a Professor of Economics at Widener University. Their study shows how the wide adoption and use of broadband applications could achieve a net reduction of 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas over 10 years, which, if converted into energy saved, would constitute 11% of annual U.S. oil imports.

The study and discussion identify several ways broadband reduces and avoids energy use – including how telecommuting would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 247.7 million tons due to less driving, 28.1 million tons due to reduced office construction, and 312.4 million tons because of energy saved by businesses.

The discussion also examined a report by the Consumer Electronics Association titled “The Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impact of Telecommuting and e-Commerce,” which found that using electronics to telecommute might save the equivalent of 9 to 14 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.

“Broadband is Green” is a vault of various studies, news articles and guest blog entries outlining how practices such as telecommuting and e-commerce can result in significant reductions in the use of electricity and the production of greenhouse gases.

“Broadband is Green” joins other NextGenWeb feature sections “eHealth” and “Setting the Record Straight,” which have become leading industry resources on telemedicine and Internet regulation issues.

To view the complete “Broadband is Green” section, please visit www.nextgenweb.org.

NextGenWeb.org is a blog sponsored by USTelecom.

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