My segment this morning @cbcradio: Yes, there's a drop in carbon dioxide emissions through the pandemic, but there's an *environmental cost* to our increasingly online lives. Here's the @Yale @LifeAtPurdue @MIT paper that inspired the segment https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921344920307072?via%3Dihub

Their advice for reducing your footprint: turn off your camera during a virtual meeting if you don’t need to be seen; switch to standard defn from HD for streaming; cut back on gaming and social media; clean up your digital clutter on the cloud and push for eco-friendly products.

More on what you heard on @LondonMorning from me on the environmental costs of our online habits, https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2021/Q1/turn-off-that-camera-during-virtual-meetings,-environmental-study-says.html