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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."

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