Spiegel Online

Ecology for IT-professionals

Buy a notebook and accelerate

With each sold notebook one ton of carbon dioxide will be neutralised, promises the PC-producer Averatec. That’s enough to travel 4.000km 'climate partner' with a VW Golf, by train even 10.000 km. Or one could fly almost three times from Hamburg to Munich and back. […]

“We take the topic of mobility seriously and we intent to make an active contribution to climate protection”, said managing director Bengt Stahlschmidt. Concerning the information of the climate partner initiative, where Averatec is buying their carbon dioxide certificates, the ecological clean conscience is worth around 13 €. […]

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