A typical office uses 22.5 kWh per sq ft, and the grid emits approximately 822.62 lb CO2e per MWH (2020; all States), or the equivalent of 19 lb CO2e per square foot of office space.

A team of 8 colleagues results in 1,400 total square feet, resulting in a total of 12

You can save money by exploring your local utility's energy efficiency programs (yes, we built that!).

Honestly? We had a really hard time in a one-day hackathon researching realistic estimates of emissions from servers.

Guesstimating, we ballpark 30 lb CO2e per $1k spent on dev ops services. So spending ~$500 per month results in 82 MT of CO2e for your company per year.

Unfortunately, there's no amount of software we can write to decrease flying emissions. It's very carbon-intensive, so the less flying you can do the better.

Emissions from flying can be calculated by multipying 8,000 miles flown per person by 53.3 lb CO2e per mile flown, resulting in 580 MT of CO2e for 8 colleagues.

Despite all our work with electric vehicles, the vast majority of driving in the US is with an internal combustion engine.

Driving emissions per person are estimated by multiplying 8,000 miles driven per person by 411 grams CO2e per mile, resulting in 26 MT of CO2e for 8 colleagues.