Freelancer Magazine » telecommuting http://www.freelancermagazine.com Freelance Advice and Resources Fri, 14 May 2010 02:15:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Around the Web: Telecommuting is a Quiet Environmental Success Story http://www.freelancermagazine.com/around-the-web-telecommuting-is-a-quiet-environmental-success-story/ http://www.freelancermagazine.com/around-the-web-telecommuting-is-a-quiet-environmental-success-story/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:10:15 +0000 John Cottone http://www.freelancermagazine.com/?p=1290 telecommuting-300x200Our friends at GreenNationToday.com make the case that telecommuting is much better for sustainability and the environment than traditional work modes. We say that the same applies to the freelance workforce, who share many of the beneficial aspects of the telecommuter’s working style. As stated by Richard Blake from GNT:

One of the most effective and certainly one of the easiest steps that can be taken to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and cut US dependence on foreign oil – and the balance of trade, national security, economic and other problems directly associated with that dependence – would be the widespread use of telecommuting or telework by US businesses.

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