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Turning cameras off during Zoom meetings can help the climate, study finds
Source: ctvnews, Date: , 2021
Looking
for an excuse to turn your camera off during the next virtual meeting, besides
Zoom fatigue? Tell the boss it's saving the planet.A
new environmental study -- from Purdue University, Yale University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- found turning off the camera during
Zoom or video meetings helps reduce a person's carbon footprint by 96 per cent.
"Many
times in meetings, there's only one person speaking or when I'm teaching in
class, all the cameras are on. This is not necessary,"Kaveh Madani, who led
the study, which was published in the journal Resources, Conservation and
Recycling, told CTVNews.ca in a video interview on Sunday.The
study also found streaming content in standard definition instead of high
definition can cut down carbon dioxide levels by 86 per cent, which Madani said
was "significant when you consider there are millions of us watching videos
from around the world." Read more at :Turning cameras off during Zoom meetings can help the climate, study finds
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