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Once every quarter Adobe has an Employee Meeting to talk about the financial results and other interesting stuff. This meeting is usually held in a large conference room in San Jose and, in the past, it was quite common to schedule a trip back to California around the same time.

Traveling has been cut down substantially since last year. You have to have a very good reason to justify a business trip these days.

Most satellite offices and tele-commuters participate via our web conferencing software “ConnectPro“.

As I joined the web conference today (15 mins before the official start) I saw something nifty:

For each person who logged on to the web conference software, ConnectPro, calculated the distance based on the geo-location of the IP-address that was used to connect to the conference. It then calculated roughly how much in CO2 emissions were saved by not attending the meeting in person. Had I gone on a trip I would have produced around 756 lbs of CO2. This information is summed up for all participants and you get not only the combined figure for CO2 emission, but also the $$$ the company saved by not putting people on a plane.

The $32K figure for combined savings changed dramatically later on as more people joined …