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Well, alrighty! It turns out that shopping online is good for the environment:

Holiday shopping online could save more than time. Researchers say it might also help save the planet.

A holiday-themed study by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory suggests that even a modest number of shopping trips to the mall can create a large volume of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles - the so-called greenhouse gases linked to global warming in the atmosphere.

“Using several assumptions and data from several authoritative sources, we can reasonably estimate that nearly a half-billion kilograms of carbon dioxide are kept out of the atmosphere by shopping online,” environmental researcher Jesse Miller said Thursday.

Dec 22nd, 2007

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Inglewood said,
December 24th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Everybody should be a little greener. Maybe it will be mandatory some day.

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