So on The Content Economy, Oscar Berg blogs today about "What others predict for 2008," mentioning Bill Ives's post about my "carbon neutral teams" post. I like the example Oscar gives of choosing the train over flying from Malmo to Stockholm, Sweden, and asked him if I could post here, to which he said, "Hi Jessica, please do. I'd be happy to serve as an example of what you're thinking ;)." And, Oscar, I hope you can publish the checklist for green teams you come up with -- so I can publish it here too (as might Bill) and we can really get things rolling quickly on this idea. And soon every team on earth will have to fill out a "green team checklist" as part of its travel request...or something like that. Thanks, Oscar:
As a comment to that [referring to Bill's post, I actually (encouraged by my wife) decided to go by train instead of flying from Malmö to Stockholm next week (600 kilometers). Not only am I saving the environment by not going by air, but I also save money for my company (or actually, the customer) since it will be cheaper than flying - despite the fact that I have to pay for one extra hotel night. The only thing I won't be saving is time. But that depends on how I look at it. On the train, I will be able to work for almost four hours and access the Internet via the wireless network on the train. Maybe I will take some time to sketch on a checklist for situations when I need to get together face-to-face and when other alternatives such as web conferencing might be just as suitable or at least possible. In addition to that, I also need a checklist for deciding what means of transportation I should be using in situations when a face-to-face meeting is absolutely necessary – should I go by train, air, car or bike? Then I will publish these as post on my team’s internal blog so they can read it via RSS – wherever they happen to be. Well, as long as they are inside the corporate firewalls.
