Using tech to be environmentally friendly

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Hiroko Tabuchi, a climate and environment reporter for The Times, discussed the tech shes using.

Q: What are your most important tech tools for doing your job?

Being conscious of my carbon footprint, and whats in the environment around me, is a prerequisite to covering my beat – and there are several good apps for that.

The CO2 app from the International Civil Aviation Organization gives a good estimate of how much greenhouse gas emissions I cause by flying. For example, Im flying to Arizona for a reporting assignment. The app tells me that a small commercial flight from New York to Phoenix and back burns about 13,150 kilograms of fuel, which comes to an average CO2 footprint per passenger of almost 500 kilograms – thats more than an average car emits in a month. Theres also a great app called Haze Today, which tracks the air quality index in real time – thats ground-level ozone, particle pollution, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide, all of which can affect your health. The index rates most winter …read more